2025 CHINA PRINT | Must-See Before the Show! Unlock the Core Highlights of P9 Digital Rotary Printing Press in Advance

Before the Show, the Star Product Takes the Stage

The exhibition hasn’t arrived, but the blockbuster product is already here! Today, we’re lifting the mystery veil on this year’s industry showstopper—the P9 Digital Rotary Printing Press! As a highlight product of this year’s CHINA PRINT, it makes a powerful debut with disruptive breakthroughs and innovations, redefining application scenarios in the digital printing realm while hiding “hardcore highlights” that will amaze both industry technology developers and printing professionals.   Next, we’ll dissect this “phenomenal product that’s already trending before the show” from three dimensions: **market adaptability, performance innovation, and user applications**, giving you a sneak peek into the unmissable “technological storm” of digital printing in 2025!

I. Market Changes: The P9 Digital Rotary Printing Press Emerges to Meet Needs  

Over the past decade, China’s printing industry has undergone profound transformation. Customer demands have shifted from “large-scale, standardized production” to “small-batch, personalized orders,” with fragmented orders and shorter delivery cycles becoming the new normal. According to the latest reports from major publishers like Electronics Industry Press, the structural composition of printing orders has changed significantly: first, the first print run for new books continues to decline, with the average dropping to 1,200 copies in 2024, and 35% of books having a first print run of fewer than 800 copies; reprint models are also innovating, with “rolling reprints” becoming mainstream—In recent years, the publishing industry has used this model to reduce inventory risks, dynamically adjusting reprint quantities based on market demand to avoid overstocking from large single print runs. Take Electronics Industry Press as an example: when promoting new books, it adopts a “small-batch, frequent-reprint” strategy to address market uncertainties; digital printing has also seen explosive growth, with its share in orders under 800 copies rising from 32% in 2022 to 51% in 2024, shortening the return on equipment investment cycle.   In publishing and printing, where the minimum print run for a book once numbered in the tens of thousands, more publishers now require “print-on-demand” capabilities—flexibly handling orders from 1 to 100,000 copies. They need to control inventory costs while meeting readers’ extreme pursuit of quality, and the rise of high-speed inkjet printing has provided a brand-new solution for the industry. Zhiyi Technology proactively initiated the development of an 890mm wide-format high-speed digital rotary printing press three years ago, delivering a mature solution for today’s market.

II. Technological Innovation: Independent Development Redefines Digital Printing Boundaries

1. Fully Independent Software Ecosystem Across the Entire Workflow
   The P9’s software system is entirely self-developed, covering RIP (Raster Image Processor), imposition, color management, and screening algorithms. Through its proprietary printhead waveform control technology, the equipment precisely compensates for differences between printheads, ensuring every ink droplet is jetted onto the paper at the optimal angle, speed, and size. This technological autonomy not only breaks international monopolies but also allows printing enterprises to flexibly adjust parameters for complex orders, enabling stable production from 1 to 100,000 copies.
2. High-Speed, Stable Industrial-Grade Production Capability
   It meets printing demands from 1 to 100,000 books, achieving large-scale digital printing production at scale. The P9 Digital Rotary Printing Press seamlessly adapts to traditional printing papers, matches offset printing speeds, and meets the quality requirements for books and periodicals:

• 940mm paper width allows direct integration into the high-volume production scenarios of traditional offset printing.

• 165 meters per minute stable speed equals a production capacity of 18,000 royal-size sheets (front and back) per hour, capable of handling massive output.

• Supports paper as light as 28g, pushing the boundaries of paper compatibility to the extreme, with a peak speed exceeding 200 meters per minute.

3. Global Patent-Protected Multi-Redundancy and Variable-Speed Printing Technologies
   These exceptional performance metrics are enabled by Zhiyi Technology’s globally patented technologies, ensuring reliability and adaptability in high-speed operations.
4. Green and Energy-Efficient Design
   Sustainability is a key development focus for the printing industry. The P9’s drying system uses low-temperature hot air circulation, significantly reducing energy consumption for drying—an internationally leading innovative solution.
5. Future-Ready Mechanical Platform
   Zhiyi’s breakthrough mechanical platform is designed and manufactured to support stable operation at 300 meters per minute, allowing direct upgrades for next-generation high-speed printheads on the same platform. This means digital printing equipment is no longer obsolete after 3–5 years; instead, it becomes a sustainable investment that can be continuously upgraded and used for up to 20 years on a stable foundation.

III. Customer Applications

As shown, the large solid blue areas and blue screen prints exhibit no color deviation, achieving perfect results.

Additionally, during the on-site printing operations at Hefei Xin’an Color Printing & Packaging Co., Ltd., even extremely small text is rendered with remarkable clarity.

The horizontal and vertical lines in the graphs are impeccably straight.

Large areas of black reverse text are sharp and clean.

The junctions of these intricate thin lines are exemplary in their precision.

It is precisely this exceptional performance that has earned the recognition of Henan Shengda Printing. The Zhiyi Technology P9 Digital Rotary Printing Press, now installed at Henan Shengda, stands as a majestic 17-ton digital printing colossus—resembling a great dragon in both power and presence.his robust and reliable "dragon" began production on the 8th day after installation at Henan Shengda.

At this critical juncture of transformation and upgrading in the printing industry, the emergence of Zhiyi Technology’s P9 Digital Rotary Printing Press provides enterprises with a clear development path. It not only addresses the long-standing pain points of traditional printing but also leverages its digital and intelligent characteristics to propel the industry toward higher-quality, more sustainable development.

The two latest upgrades of the P9 Digital Rotary Printing Press will be showcased at Booth 015, Hall E2.

We invite you to visit the booth in person and witness the shock and transformation it brings to the industry.