The Status Quo and Existing Problems of the Development of Flexographic Ink in China

Objectively speaking, the quality of flexographic ink in our country has made some progress and improvement earlier, but it is inferior to the quality of similar inks in foreign countries. Several domestic professional ink-and-wash production plants in the country have now grown to dozens, and the craftsmanship and manufacturing levels are uneven; however, an indisputable fact is that the Chinese flexible printing market is visible. The cake is so big. Faced with the increasingly fierce competition in the ink-and-wash market, each of them has made every effort to reduce costs, pull customers, and run sales to maintain their livelihood. There is not enough energy to carry out new processes and quality problems. Under the current situation, the ink-and-wash system is naturally “excessive in its ability” when flexographic users print high-precision products, and thus the old problems of domestic ink and wash are still present: quality instability, poor thixotropic properties, insufficient saturation, poor drying, Stacked ink, bubbles, etc.; such repeated tossing, repeated proofing trial production still can not meet the customer's product requirements, a serious contusion and shake the vast number of flexo printing users with confidence in the production of high-precision products. In desperation, they can only be close to each other and consider purchasing imported ink. However, the prices of domestic ink-and-wash inks are also prohibitive for most companies. Many failures and lessons have made many users unwilling to use Flexo to try high-precision products. Over time, this not only severely restricts the business expansion of the company, but also is extremely detrimental to the current and future development of flexo printing.