Editor’s Note:
How Innovative Card Technology Empowers
The New Landscape of Digital Printing of Corrugated Boxes?
Beijing Boyuan Hengxin Technology Co., Ltd.
March 28, 2024
The card system of digital printers is equivalent to a set of printhead driving systems. Although it is software, it can compensate for hardware losses at critical moments through software algorithms. For example, due to the mechanical structure characteristics of inkjet printheads, prolonged and high-intensity printing and wear may lead to printhead breakage, affecting print quality and efficiency. Boyuan Hengxin has launched a printhead breakage compensation function named “Eagle Eye,” which highlights the important position of the card system relative to digital inkjet printers.
With the deepening of green and environmentally friendly concepts and the rapid development of the logistics industry, digital corrugated box printers have become the new favorite in the modern packaging printing industry. Nowadays, many factories have launched a new generation of digital corrugated box printers equipped with high-performance packaging printing control cards from Beijing Boyuan Hengxin Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as “Boyuan Hengxin”), which, with their excellent performance and intelligent technology, have subverted tradition and opened a new chapter in corrugated box printing!
Beijing Boyuan Hengxin Technology Co., Ltd. is a company focused on the research and development, production, and sales of printer control systems. Since its establishment, Boyuan Hengxin Technology has been committed to providing users with high-quality and efficient printing solutions, becoming one of the leading enterprises in the box printing industry.
As a service provider of printing control systems, Boyuan Hengxin has been continuously striving towards intelligent manufacturing, cooperating with multiple brands of printhead manufacturers, ink manufacturers, media manufacturers, and RIP manufacturers, to provide customers with a complete set of digital corrugated box system solutions. At the same time, Boyuan Hengxin has designed and provided professional digital printing control system cards for different brands of printheads, widely used in various fields such as indoor and outdoor advertising, label barcode printing, ceramic printing, PCB printing, textile printing, packaging printing, varnishing printing, and 3D printing.
The main differences between traditional corrugated box printing and digital corrugated box printing lie in their working principles, production processes, flexibility, cost structures, and print quality:
1. Working Principle and Process Flow
Traditional Corrugated Box Printing:
Mainly includes lithographic printing (offset printing), relief printing (flexographic printing), and gravure printing methods. These usually require pre-made plates, such as making printing plates (like flexo or gravure plates), and then transferring ink to the corrugated board through rollers or flat plates.
This printing method is suitable for mass production because the upfront plate-making costs are high, but the cost per piece decreases as the quantity increases.
Digital Corrugated Box Printing:
Digital printing uses inkjet printheads to print directly based on image data in the computer, without the need for physical printing plates.
The digitized workflow allows for instant design changes without changing the plates, making it particularly suitable for small batches, diverse varieties, and quick delivery orders.
2. Flexibility and Customization
Traditional Printing:Requires re-plate making when changing designs, not suitable for small batch orders with frequent design changes.
Digital Printing:Can easily achieve personalization and customization, with each print being a unique design, adapting to the short-run printing market demand.
3. Print Quality
Traditional Printing:Can achieve high precision and stable color control under mass production, especially when the screen ruling is high, achieving high print quality.
Digital Printing:With the advancement of technology, modern digital printing quality is now close to or even surpasses traditional printing, especially in terms of color reproduction and clarity.
4. Cost Considerations
Traditional Printing:High initial investment, especially for plate costs, but lower costs for mass printing.
Digital Printing:Relatively small initial investment, with no plate-making costs.
5. Environmental Factors
Digital printing often uses water-based or UV-curable inks, reducing environmental pollution, and does not require chemical developing solutions and waste plate handling, making it more environmentally friendly.
In summary, with technological advancements, the boundaries between the two are gradually blurring, and digital printing’s advantages in efficiency, environmental friendliness, and personalized services are increasingly favored by the market.
In the continuous development of Beijing Boyuan Hengxin Technology Co., Ltd., especially under the backdrop of the Industrial 4.0 era, the company has made significant contributions to the intelligent manufacturing industry with its deep technical accumulation and forward-looking innovation strategy in the field of industrial inkjet printing control.
In the wave of intelligence and digitization of Industrial 4.0, Boyuan Hengxin actively promotes the upgrading and transformation of products and services, developing a series of highly integrated, flexible, efficient, and interconnected inkjet printing control system cards. These cards not only integrate advanced dot algorithms, motion control, color management, and high-speed data processing capabilities, but also possess strong compatibility and scalability, enabling seamless integration with various industrial automation production lines, supporting cloud services and remote monitoring and maintenance functions, meeting the needs of intelligent manufacturing for personalized customization, lean production, and rapid response to market changes.
Through continuous innovation and optimization, Boyuan Hengxin’s products effectively enhance the overall technological level of the industrial inkjet printing industry, helping customers achieve higher quality and higher efficiency in the printing production process. At the same time, the company continuously explores cutting-edge technologies in research and development, such as big data analysis and intelligent printhead breakage compensation, further promoting the entire industry’s pace towards intelligent manufacturing.
Boyuan Hengxin control cards, as the core “brain” of corrugated box printers, endow printers with extraordinary performance through their powerful data processing capabilities and precise control algorithms.Boyuan Hengxin control cards adopt precise printhead driving technology, which can accurately control various brands of printheads such as Starfire, Epson, Konica, etc., achieving high-precision, multi-gray color printing, ensuring that the patterns on the surface of corrugated boxes are clear and delicate, meeting high-quality packaging requirements.They can also adapt to long hours of continuous work, greatly improving the production efficiency of users.
In the rapidly changing market environment, digital corrugated box printing technology is changing the traditional packaging industry at an unprecedented speed.Beijing Boyuan Hengxin Technology Co., Ltd. has successfully unlocked many challenges in this field with its self-developed innovative control cards, leading industrial upgrades.
Boyuan Hengxin control cards, with outstanding stability and precise control as core competitiveness, ensure that every piece of corrugated board can achieve flawless high-definition printing effects by integrating cutting-edge microelectronics technology and intelligent algorithms.Whether for large-scale standardized production or small batch customization needs, rapid switching and zero-delay response can be achieved, significantly compressing production cycles and meeting customers’ needs for rapid delivery.
In the intelligent transformation process of the corrugated box industry, Boyuan Hengxin’s key role can be summarized as follows:
Leading Technological Innovation:Boyuan Hengxin, with its profound technical accumulation in the fields of industrial control and automation, has developed high-performance intelligent control cards and overall solutions suitable for the corrugated box printing industry, promoting technological innovation in the industry.
Improving Print Quality and Efficiency:Through precise digital control technology, effectively improve the accuracy and speed of corrugated box printing, resulting in better product quality and higher production efficiency, helping enterprises meet the market’s demand for high quality and quick response.
Promoting Personalized Customization and Flexible Production:Boyuan Hengxin’s intelligent system can flexibly handle various complex designs, enabling quick switching between different orders, adapting to diverse and small-batch customized production models, thus helping enterprises gain an advantage in market competition.
Energy Saving and Emission Reduction, Green Manufacturing:Boyuan Hengxin’s intelligent control technology helps optimize resource utilization in the corrugated box printing process, reducing unnecessary waste, aligning with the national advocacy for green and sustainable manufacturing industry transformation.
Empowering Industrial Upgrades:By providing a complete set of intelligent solutions including hardware, software, and services, Boyuan Hengxin strongly promotes the transition of the corrugated box industry from traditional labor-intensive to technology and knowledge-intensive, facilitating the upgrading and modernization process of the entire industrial chain.
Boyuan Hengxin’s printing control systems have been widely applied and achieved excellent results in many box printing enterprises. The following is an explanation of a successful case:
After a box printing enterprise introduced Boyuan Hengxin’s printing control system, it achieved a significant improvement in production efficiency. Previously, using traditional printing methods, processes such as plate-making, debugging, and printing took a long time, resulting in low production line efficiency. After introducing Boyuan Hengxin’s printing control system, the enterprise can quickly perform batch printing, saving a lot of production time and labor costs, and the printing quality has also improved significantly. After a period of operation, the enterprise’s box production line operates stably, with a substantial increase in output and significant improvement in performance.
To better integrate into the intelligent and digital wave of Industrial 4.0 and to provide better service to partners, Boyuan Hengxin has also launched an intelligent cloud-based information management system. The cloud can be accessed through web and mobile app interfaces, allowing operators and managers to understand the current status of printers at any time. The advantages of the cloud-based information management system include the following:
1. Remote Control and Inspection:
Users can manage the status of printing devices distributed across various locations in real-time, including operational parameters, ink consumption, maintenance reminders, etc., enabling remote diagnosis and troubleshooting. It also allows multiple terminals and users to access the cloud-based information management platform anytime and anywhere, free from geographical restrictions, enabling users to check and operate information through various devices such as PCs and mobile devices, greatly enhancing office convenience and collaboration efficiency.
2. Data Synchronization and Efficiency:
The cloud system can automatically update the firmware of the control cards or printing control software, ensuring all devices are kept up to date, improving work efficiency and safety. Based on cloud computing technology, users do not need to invest heavily in hardware costs, and can quickly deploy and use through the network.
3. Intelligent Scheduling and Optimization:
Utilizing cloud computing capabilities, printing tasks can be intelligently scheduled based on order requirements, machine performance, and other conditions, optimizing production plans, reducing downtime, and resource waste.
4. Big Data Analysis and Decision Support:
By collecting and analyzing operational data from devices in the cloud, detailed reports can be generated for capacity analysis, material consumption forecasting, and cost control, providing strong data support for enterprise decision-making.
5. Security Backup and Disaster Recovery:
Printer settings and important files can be stored in the cloud, enhancing data security and reliability, allowing for rapid recovery of the production environment even if local devices fail.
Therefore, in summary, the cloud-based information management system has become a key tool for promoting the digital transformation of printing enterprises and enhancing operational management efficiency due to its efficiency, convenience, and scalability.
In the industrial printing environment, especially when using digital inkjet printers, printhead breakage is one of the common hardware failures. Due to the mechanical structure characteristics of inkjet printheads, prolonged and high-intensity printing and wear may lead to printhead breakage, affecting print quality and efficiency. For this reason, Boyuan Hengxin has launched a printhead breakage compensation function named “Eagle Eye.” The breakage compensation technology is a key means to ensure printing continuity and reduce maintenance costs in the event of printhead breakage.
1. Continuous Printing Capability:Even if individual print needles are broken or misaligned, the breakage compensation technology can intelligently adjust the operation of other needles to simulate the function of the missing needles, allowing the printer to continue basic printing tasks without replacing the printhead, while ensuring output quality does not decline.
2. Reduced Downtime:Avoid interruptions in the entire printing work due to the breakage of a single or a few needles, thereby improving the operational efficiency of the equipment and the continuity of the production line.
3. Cost Savings:By using the printhead breakage compensation system, the high costs associated with replacing the entire printhead due to the breakage of a single or a few nozzles can be avoided, helping users reduce maintenance costs.
4. Ensuring Output Quality:Breakage compensation helps mitigate noticeable blank lines or other printing quality issues caused by broken needles, ensuring the integrity and clarity of patterns or text, thus maintaining good printing effects.
5. Output Convenience:The printhead breakage compensation system features advanced sensor technology and algorithms, capable of real-time monitoring of printhead status, accurately identifying and locating broken or misaligned printhead nozzles, and quickly compensating to ensure uninterrupted printing. The system can also set how many passes or how many meters to perform real-time detection during printing, allowing users to ensure print quality at any time.
Boyuan Hengxin, with leading digital technology and intelligent solutions, has brought revolutionary changes to the corrugated box printing industry, helping enterprises achieve a magnificent transformation from traditional to modern and from inefficient to efficient.
In summary, with the strong driving force of Boyuan Hengxin’s printing control system cards, our digital corrugated box printers are like precision high-efficiency industrial artworks, injecting new vitality into the global packaging printing industry with leading technological advantages, excellent printing quality, and intelligent operation and maintenance services. Choosing Boyuan Hengxin’s printing control system, users will experience the efficiency and convenience brought by technological innovation, and will gain an edge in fierce market competition, creating infinite possibilities!
Join hands with Beijing Boyuan Hengxin Technology Co., Ltd. to usher in a new era of efficient, precise, and intelligent digital printing of corrugated boxes!
For more details, please see the following link:
“Digital Printing Development Blue Book of Corrugated Boxes” AI·Digital·Small Batch Industry Intelligence Road
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