Zhiyi Technology P9 digital rotary press conference speech: from 1 to 100,000 copies, expand digital printing application scenarios

With the change of global economic environment and the adjustment of domestic industrial structure, publishing industry and printing industry are facing new opportunities and challenges. As a service-oriented manufacturing industry, the publication printing industry, while assuming the important responsibility of cultural inheritance and information exchange, is facing the new situation and new tasks, and is actively seeking ways and methods to cultivate new driving forces, achieve the release of new quality productivity, smoothly transform and upgrade in the process of high-quality development, and complete the construction of a new development pattern. Focusing on this, on November 4-6, 2024, the 2024 Annual meeting of the Publication Printing Branch of China Printing and Equipment Industry Association (hereinafter referred to as "China Printing Association") was held in Hefei, Anhui Province.

This annual meeting is sponsored by the Publication Printing Branch of China Printing Association, and co-organized by the printing Professional Committee of Anhui Provincial Publishing Association and Anhui Xinhua Printing Co., LTD. Yang Minqiang, Vice Chairman of China Printing Association and rotating chairman of Publications Printing Branch; Li Yanqiu, Vice chairman of China Printing Association and Chairman of Publications Printing Branch and Group President of Beijing Shengtong Printing Co., LTD.; Zheng Bin, Vice chairman of China Printing Association and chairman of Shenzhen Precision Intelligent Machine Co., LTD. Yang Guowei, Chairman of the Publication Printing Branch of China Printing Association and Chairman of Dongguan Jinbei Printing Co., LTD., Guo Zhixue, director of Printing Professional Committee of Anhui Provincial Publishing Association, GUI Bin, deputy general manager of Times Publishing Media Co., LTD., Yao Feng, chairman of Anhui Xinhua Printing Co., LTD., and representatives of the publishing and printing industry chain from all over the country, More than 200 guests attended the annual meeting.

The leaders and guests at the meeting focused on the theme of "developing new quality productivity of publication printing enterprises, achieving further improvement of service, further improvement of efficiency, further improvement of green" and "Return to basic management breakthrough", and analyzed the current market environment and pain points faced by publication printing enterprises. Yang Minqiang, chairman of the branch, proposed: In the midst of difficulties and shocks, industries and enterprises should speed up the cultivation of new drivers to break out of difficulties, achieve the release of new quality productivity, smoothly transform and upgrade in the process of high-quality development, achieve the construction of a new pattern of development, and enable enterprises to return to the basics of starting a company: obtaining stronger market competitiveness, more operating efficiency and better product quality.

How to help publication printing enterprises increase new quality productivity, improve production efficiency, and solve the pain points and problems faced by printing enterprises in the digital printing era, Tian Jing, chairman of Beijing Zhiyiharmony Technology Co., LTD., gave the answer to the title of "From 1 book to 100,000 books, expand the application scenario of digital printing" : Digital printing solutions to adapt to traditional paper, match offset printing speed, and meet the quality needs of books and periodicals. At the annual meeting, ZYI Technology launched the P9 digital inkjet rotary press, which has been developed and successfully applied, which is a digital rotary press with 890mm printing width, 165m/min high-speed and stable production, perfect for traditional paper.

Dear leaders and distinguished guests, good afternoon, I am Tian Jing from Beijing Zhiyi Technology. I am very happy to share with you some of our team's thinking and practice at the most grand event of our publishing and printing. The title I share today is "From 1 book to 100,000 books, expanding digital printing application scenarios".

We have been thinking, what is the new quality productivity of the printing industry? At the same time, what are the problems facing the large-scale production of printing? I believe this is a question that we and all of our leaders here have been thinking about.

So let's first review what our printing orders and our production model look like. Tight time, heavy tasks and high demands are the actual situation we have now, and this situation is becoming more severe and more severe year by year.

And take a look at our order. We will have an order for one copy. There is also an order of 100,000 copies, so we are all thinking, combined with such a new business scenario and business order state, how can we use a new and better production mode to meet such orders and production business scenarios? Here let's first review the traditional book printing process.

This is our traditional book printing process, in the past 20 years we almost every day, day after day, year after year, is walking in such a process, but today we feel that such a process has brought us more and more pressure and pain points.

On top of that, both platemaking and printing require highly skilled workers, who are becoming harder to find, more expensive, and harder to attract new talent to join the industry. At the same time, in the folding and matching links, we need a large turnover site, on the whole, it is more processes, more personnel, and a long production cycle.

So what does the ideal print on demand look like? We only need a printing press, a book wire, and a binding system to complete the production of books, and the process is so simple and efficient that it seems to be a very perfect solution. It has fewer processes, fewer personnel and short cycles, what an ideal program!

But 20 years later, what is our current POD scene? We have to admit that the current POD is in a state of auxiliary production tools, and still has not entered the real mainstream application scenarios of our book production.Why is this a case? In fact, the main reason is in the following aspects, let's take a look.

First of all, most of the current POD also need to apply digital paper, and small printing width format POD products need multiple specifications of paper to match it, and the occupancy of funds is very high, because it is difficult to use the press's own paper.

So from the point of view of equipment production efficiency, each equipment supplier on its parameter table and even in some speeches said that let us feel particularly ideal speed, but in the real production of all POD production speed is not high, it can not meet our requirements for production efficiency, and the current domestic mainstream POD production mode is loose binding. The book-block production method of loose pages is difficult to match and connect with our automated binding production process at the back end.

Then there are in the past 20 years, inkjet printing has been trying to solve but still not good enough: the problem of pulling wire, the problem of back-lit, the problem of blackness, the problem of stay wire is not good enough... These are some of the problems plaguing the real development of Pods today.

If there is a machine that can adapt to traditional paper, can match the speed of our offset printing, and can meet the quality requirements of books and periodicals, is it not true that a POD on-demand digital printing equipment can solve many of our current problems? I believe this is also the direction that many enterprises are exploring and working hard.

For our company, this is also what we have been thinking about to solve the problem, based on our understanding and experience of inkjet printing in the past 20 years, the past three years we have sunk our hearts to practice hard, is to solve such problems, we believe that as long as we solve such problems, we can achieve a large area of promotion of our new production mode.

Therefore, on such a very important occasion today, we also take the opportunity of the conference to introduce to you the application results of our past three years, that is, Zhiyi Technology P9 digital rotary press.

First of all, what kind of technical indicators do we see it achieve? It achieves a printing width of 890mm and stable production at a high speed of 165m per minute, while perfectly adapting to traditional paper. If you do these three points, is it a good, digital printing, integrated into the traditional production scene, large capacity, high-quality equipment? But such a simple parameter, such a simple answer, why in the past 20 years has not been applied in China's practice?

It is because it is not a simple problem to achieve such performance, it is not a single problem, it is actually to rely on the inkjet control system, ink drying paper platform, software system and many systems joint development, coordination, careful matching can be completed. So the goal is here, but the solution is not easy. And to One technology is precisely in these directions have a complete independent intellectual property rights of the company, so that in the past three years, we have focused our energy and time on such a direction. So let's see how we solve these problems.

First of all, we use the multiple redundancy printing technology of the first technology, which can fully realize the problem of pulling wire in the process of production and printing, while using our double speed printing technology, to achieve the actual production speed of up to 165 meters, while achieving a good ink and paper drying under 165 meters, these are our independent knowledge and core intellectual property rights.

The software system from RIP, to patchwork, to color management mesh algorithm, and job queue management is completely self-developed.

At the same time, our software is combined with the printing control system, based on the waveform of a single nozzle can be adjusted, to achieve the difference management between the printing head.

At the same time, we also developed a dedicated digital printing platform for the characteristics of inkjet printing, which can support 38 g to 120 g of plywood paper, rice paper, 50 g of dictionary paper, 47 g of newsprint and other paper. At the same time, the printing paper width of 440mm-940mm format is supported, and the high-speed and stable production of 165 meters is realized.

Now let's look at drying. Dryness is a very important problem. In this system, we use the international leading innovative low-temperature hot air circulation drying system, with very low energy consumption to achieve 165 meters of high-speed drying.

In fact, this drying system is combined with one of the high quality Seri ink, which is in line with the core algorithm of our inkjet control system waveform control software, cyclic drying to ensure the smoothness of the paper, which solves the drying problem and the problem of ink blackness when we print at 165 meters high speed. And this ink has passed the safety and environmental certification of California, the European Union, the United Kingdom, and also passed our VOCs emission certification in China.

These are some of our thoughts and explorations on the whole system, which are highly consistent with Xinjiang Xinhua Printing Co., LTD. 's processing of production practice and order system. Therefore, we have a high degree of recognition with Xinjiang Xinhua Printing Co., LTD., and jointly put such an innovative product to serve the environment of Xinjiang Xinhua Printing Co., LTD. Moreover, the application of this system not only helps Xinjiang Xinhua Printing Co., Ltd. to expand new quality productivity, but also because Xinjiang Xinhua Printing Co., LTD., because of its rich experience and excellent vision, has put forward a lot of improvement suggestions for us, so that our technology has also been upgraded.

At present, we have installed three P9 digital rotary printing machines at our site in Xinhua, Xinjiang, and realized the official production of two teaching seasons. In the teaching season, we can realize the full operation of 24 hours. At the same time, when the power is off for a long time in the non-teaching season, the equipment can quickly return to the normal working state, and can support our temporary order response.

So here is our two-color teaching material this season, we can see in this picture: blue field, large area of flat net, black text edge control, thin line performance, are very perfect, such works have also been recognized and praised by the publishing house.

At the same time, I also want to introduce to you a company in Hefei, called Hefei Xinan Color printing, Hefei Xinan color printing general manager Wu Xiaodong has been looking for 889 format inkjet rotary printing machine, they are a local "beauty" instruction manual of an enterprise, "beauty" instruction manual has high requirements for efficient delivery. So when Hefei Xinan color printing and to one technology meet, we have a deep fit. In September, our P9 printing machine has been installed at the site of Hefei Xinan Color Printing, and now it has been in complete production for 40 days. Now it is an ordering shift with each shift producing at full capacity. As of this morning, 40 days of production time has produced 1,876,500 meters of actual business delivery.

At the same time, Xinan color printing also lets us have a deeper understanding of the manual business. The instructions for the business, like this product display, have very small English text on this page.

There are large areas of black field and anti-white images of the screen. There's black against white Arabic writing in there. Large area of black flat mesh and field.

Then at the same time we can see the stitching of extremely fine lines, which also puts high requirements on the consistency of the printing head.

So, let me show you the actual production of our equipment in Hefei Xinan color printing.

This is the production site of Hefei Xinan Color Printing, the actual production of 78 grams of high white rubber sheet manual business.

In the practice of R & D and production, in fact, together with us, in recent years, there are many enterprises with post-press technology can cooperate with P9 such a wide inkjet wheel launched high-speed book core wire, there are many enterprises landing application practice, and there are many enterprises are developing. Especially under the leadership of General Lu Ye of Xinjiang Xinhua, their practice of normal productivity and wider integration have given us a lot of help.

I would like to be on the occasion of such a meeting today, and I also hope to listen to everyone's opinions together with your leaders, release such a product, and I am more willing to hear and everyone's guidance and opinions on us.

Henan Shanda also conducted a careful and rigorous inspection of our P9 digital rotary printing machine. He arranged their start-up master to go to the site of Xinhua, Xinjiang for a 7-day tracking practice production of the whole process. Our equipment passed their assessment, and they have decided to install the first P9 in their Yongcheng factory. Here to report such a good news to you.

The theme of our publishing 2024 printing conference is "Releasing new quality productivity, Building a new pattern of development". I think this is an expectation from the leadership of the Association and the government for all of us in this industry, and it is also a blessing. Then the P9 inkjet digital rotary printing machine of Zhiyi Technology is our exploration and attempt to "releasing new quality productivity, building a new pattern of development". I hope that after today's meeting I can listen to the advice of the leaders, let us make progress together, thank you.