What are the characteristics of traditional label printing?

At present, domestic label printing mainly adopts relief printing, offset printing, flexographic printing and screen printing. From a technical point of view, these printing methods have their own advantages and disadvantages, and no one printing method can replace another.

Offset printing is a widely used printing method. Sheet-fed printing in China is basically offset printing. This printing method has the advantages of high speed, high printing clarity, accurate overprint and full printing level, but it is not suitable for printing bright label products because of its poor durability and shallow ink layer.

Relief printing has the advantages of good graphic clarity, fast printing speed, stronger color intensity and durability than offset printing, and slightly worse than screen printing, but its hierarchical performance and registration are better than screen printing and flexographic printing, so relief printing is mostly used for label making in China.

The biggest advantage of screen printing is that the ink layer is thick and the hiding power is good, but the speed is slow, the gradation is poor and the registration degree is low (here refers to the general level in China), so the label with weak gradation can be printed by screen printing machine.