Do you know the application of laser die cutting machine?

With the continuous development of the world economy, people's demand for personalized printing products is increasing. In particular, the emergence of digital printing technology has continuously met the small-batch and personalized needs of the printing industry. Traditional die-cutting is increasingly unable to meet the market's demand for personalized die-cutting, and the emergence of laser die-cutting just fills this gap. It can be said that the emergence of laser die-cutting has fully reflected the value of digital printing.

The application of laser technology in the field of printing and die-cutting has great advantages, but there are also some shortcomings. First, let us understand the advantages and disadvantages of laser die-cutting.

1. Advantages of laser die-cutting machine:

1Digitalization

Quickly change different processing patterns through computers, and the die-cutting pattern can be any shape, which not only meets the requirements of personalized processing, but also meets the post-processing of batch short version, digital fast printing, and plate printing.

2. Personalization

Release the inspiration of designers, use software to complete 3D stereoscopic display directly on the computer, and avoid design defects and errors in the production process. Because there is no restriction on cutting tools, the creative space of designers can be greatly expanded.

3. High precision

Laser die-cutting adopts fully automatic laser cutting and engraving, with clear cutting lines and no vibration deviation, ensuring processing accuracy.

4. High efficiency

The use of laser cutting instead of the traditional mechanical die processing method saves the manufacturing time and installation and debugging time of the traditional die.

5. Low cost

The laser die-cutting process is controlled by a computer, with a short production cycle, no knife plate required, and low maintenance cost.

Application of Laser Die Cutting

Currently,Laser die cuttingis mainly used in packaging, commercial glue, labels, greeting cards, cultural and creative products and other fields.

Most of the printing companies that used laser die cutting in the early days were complex and personalized products. They could not use traditional die cutting to meet the final requirements. They met the requirements by purchasing laser die cutting equipment on a manual platform, but this kind of product had high labor costs and low production efficiency. Especially when large-area die-cutting is required, multiple laser die-cutting processes need to be performed at different locations on the same product.

Today, the application field of laser die-cutting has transitioned from the original small-area, single-laser to large-area, multi-laser fields with higher requirements. The perfect combination of digital technology and laser technology enables the laser die-cutting machine to be seamlessly connected with digital printing equipment, realizing the automation and digitization of the entire laser die-cutting process. The current status of equipment application of laser die-cutting customers is as follows:

1. Small-format laser die-cutting products.

Single laser and flight mode laser processing are used in the roll label field. It is suitable for processing labels with complex contours, different shapes, and die-cutting on the label surface.

Small laser cutting such as gift cards mostly adopts manual processing mode, and some customers use single laser intermittent platform processing. It is suitable for cutting small cardboard and watermarked products.

Small-surface laser die-cutting generally adopts intermittent automatic platform or flying automatic platform, with continuous paper feeding, which greatly reduces the labor intensity and cost.

2. Large-area laser die-cutting products

The laser die-cutting of large-area self-adhesive plywood and large-area packaging products mostly adopts multi-laser flying automatic platform. The whole process of paper feeding, creasing, laser die-cutting and paper collection is completed automatically. This kind of laser die-cutting equipment has been purchased and used by many packaging and printing companies in China.

From a technical point of view, laser die-cutting needs to improve the core technology. The core technology mainly includes laser speed, spot size, laser control technology and laser software technology.

Future development direction of laser die-cutting

1. Application fields:

In the future,laser die-cutting technology will have room for development in the following fields, and its market share will gradually increase.

1. Roll-fed label field

Nowadays, roll-fed label materials are diverse, including self-adhesive paper, PET, PT and other films, gold foil, silver foil, etc. On these materials, laser die-cutting can perfectly show the flexibility of cutting. At the same time, the printing volume of labels has also changed from the original large orders to multiple small batches. Especially for special promotion products, the styles are novel and the changes are frequent, and the short-order advantages and flexible personality of laser die-cutting are highlighted.

2. Commercial joint-plate self-adhesive

Commercial joint-plate self-adhesive means that the die-cutting files of different shapes and different customers are combined for die-cutting. This kind of product itself is small in quantity and different in shape, and the die-cutting graphics are often small. For this kind of business, the traditional die-cutting process is difficult, the alignment time is long, and the production cost is high. There is no need to make a knife die. The knife die file can be directly retrieved by the computer, and the die-cutting alignment and laser parameter setting can be completed in a short time.

3. Packaging cardboard

Complex line cardboard die-cutting has always been an untouchable field for traditional die-cutting. The knife plate production process does not meet the requirements, the customer recognition of the finished product effect is not high, and some patterns cannot be completed at all. For example, greeting cards, craft gift cards, paper cutting, etc.

2. Special-shaped packaging

For special-shaped packaging, the traditional die-cutting process is complicated, and the processes of die-cutting, creasing, tearing and so on are cumbersome. These are the shortcomings of traditional die-cutting.

Laser die-cutting can just meet the requirements of the above products and processes. By setting different laser parameters, complex pattern lines, half cutting, full cutting, and surface cutting can be completed at one time. It fully reflects the magic of laser die-cutting.

3. Die cutting method

Based on the die cutting processing method, the development of laser technology in the field of die cutting before printing is analyzed.

Laser die cutting equipmentMainly adopts intermittent die cutting and flying die cutting.

Intermittent die cutting means that the target printed product starts die cutting after it stops. It takes a certain amount of time to run to a fixed position, and when the format increases, multi-laser splicing is difficult to achieve. Flying die-cutting refers to die-cutting the target printed product during continuous linear motion. This die-cutting processing method can be die-cut as the product moves, and the die-cutting waiting time is short. For large printed products, multi-laser splicing can be achieved, which improves die-cutting efficiency and increases die-cutting range.

With the development of laser technology, software technology, and digital control, the laser cutting line is getting thinner and thinner, the laser cutting speed is getting faster and faster, and the effect of laser cutting products is getting closer and closer, exceeding traditional cutting. At the same time, the cutting efficiency is gradually improving, the advantages of laser cutting equipment are becoming more and more obvious, and the market share in the post-printing cutting field is gradually expanding.

The eyeball economy that exerts creativity and expresses individuality is gradually forming and is fermenting rapidly. On the future development path, in order to meet the personalized creative needs of customers, the printing industry will usher in the development prospects of digitalization, automation, and intelligence, and laser die-cutting will become an inevitable trend in the development of the printing industry.