The direction of the printing industry in the early part of the century mainly stated what changes in the printing environment would occur in the first five years of the 21st century. Here, based on information obtained from overseas sources, briefly introduce the following for reference.
First, the reconstruction of the printing industry In the past two years, the global printing industry has set off a big wave of corporate mergers, acquisitions, and closures. In this wave, some SMEs went bankrupt or merged. Even if it is preserved, it is forced to reduce staff, reduce wages, and reduce operations. I once asked Japan's two largest printing companies how to cope with this trend. Their approach is to cope with difficulties by taking measures to reduce labor time and reduce wages. This is plant-wide. , from the factory director to the next law. I heard that France did the same.
Later, economists advocated the adoption of corporate restructuring, and the word Restructuring broke into the printing industry. Many medium-sized companies took this approach out of their predicament. The core content is to adapt to the trend of technological innovation and transform the structure of the company in order to get rid of old business mechanisms. Specific practices: (1) change the financial system, such as replacing loans with capital increase; (2) transforming operating mechanisms, such as the introduction of departmental contracting systems; (3) the reorganization of various departments within the factory, the upcoming plant employees will disrupt the overall preparation of the department Concentrated and redeployed the work, leaving the remaining personnel to stay in a unified arrangement, instead of reducing the proportion of layoffs by various departments. After such a recombination adjustment, it is said to have been effective.
Second, to improve the business environment The printing industry's business environment, mainly with the competitive environment and the labor environment are closely related. The competitive environment of the printing industry is inherently complex and changeable. When the competition is fierce and the buyer’s market is the main focus, it is necessary to change the mechanism for waiting for orders in the past and turn it into a user-oriented mechanism for creating orders, and actively provide users with everything from planning to finished products. The plan to strengthen the ability of enterprises to respond to changes in the operating environment. To directly influence customers through technological capabilities, resource capabilities, and production capabilities. The consensus in the international community is that companies need to introduce IT technology in order to understand the market demand, so that digital information can be timely transmitted, properly managed, and transactions can be made on the Internet using e-commerce. Therefore, Japanese SMEs have set up marketing departments in enterprises to specifically capture market demand information. This is an effective measure.
At the beginning of the century, people of insight in business operations have realized that unnecessary competition has brought adverse consequences to both enterprises and users. It is necessary to avoid unprofitable competition as far as possible and put the company’s strategy in the pursuit of added value. This is a wise decision.
In addition, it is worth noting that the user's motivation for ordering is often based on the service function of the company and the efficiency of the provided function. For this reason, in order to demonstrate strength and strengthen equipment capabilities to seek to increase prices, companies tend to lose their competitiveness. If the company’s own capital ratio drops to 28%, it means that the investment is too large and it will certainly not be plagued by high interest rates. The result will be counterproductive. Therefore, we must promote proper competition and try our best to avoid the negative effects of excessive competition.
To do this, we must protect business resources (ie, technical capabilities, financial capabilities, sales capabilities, intelligence capabilities, etc.), and be good at inducing all employees to support the strengthening of business resources. This is the basis for corporate development.
3. Pay attention to the labor environment The labor environment of enterprises is closely related to the talents who retain them. The five elements of the labor environment, that is, labor time, wages, manpower, investment, labor, etc., should be properly handled. The most critical of these is to ensure the working hours. Labor time in the 21st century must be shortened. The industrialized countries have already planned to gradually shift the average annual labor time from 2000 hours to 1800 hours. According to the average annual labor time of countries, the United States had 1986 hours, Japan 1975 hours, Britain 1943 hours, France 1680 hours, and Germany 1550 hours. The annual work in China is 254 days a day, and the actual labor time per day is calculated as 7778 hours in 7 hours. In the case where management is not up to standard and production is not yet efficient, this labor time can only show that the benefits are not high.
Another point is that shortening the labor time means that people feel less and less. This does not mean that the high-value equipment is idle. Instead, it requires the implementation of a three-shift 24-hour system for high-investment equipment. The depreciation expense of the input equipment shall be calculated on a monthly basis, and the depreciation of the depreciation of the laborer shall be twice as much as the total salary of the laborer. Therefore, when investing capital, we must consider the equipment itself to save human resources. Regarding the content of labor services, as the demand is diversified, information orders with short delivery times and high quality cultural orders must be treated differently.
Another important emphasis on the working environment is to ensure the health and safety of workers. While demanding increased automation and productivity, creating a comfortable, environment-friendly environment is crucial.
Fourth, technological environment innovation Technological environment is the backing of business strategy. Unmanned, highly automated, energy-saving, and high-quality services are all signs of a technological environment. The transformation from labor-intensive to knowledge-intensive is the initial goal of the company. The optimization of the technical environment requires not only the configuration of sophisticated image processing devices, but also FA and OA, the addition of large-capacity memories, and the establishment of a digital database that meets production needs, but ultimately creates a mature technology environment.
For example, many companies in the global printing industry are engaged in FM screening. If a printer does not have this technology, then you are not competitive. Another example is that at present, some of the integrated printing companies can add the printing department to the 1000 line to complete the high-precision printing. The printing factory in China can only maintain the level of 300 lines. This kind of technical environment can not participate in the competition. It is reported that in order to achieve high-precision printing or high-density printing, the management of each process in the overall technical environment needs to be fully updated. Without a lot of capital investment is impossible.
It should be noted that changes in the technological environment will break down the barriers between industries, resulting in industrial convergence. For example, after the development of organic chemistry, the barriers of the fiber industry and chemical industry disappeared. In fact, the advancement in communications technology has caused barriers between journalism, publishing, and printing industries to disappear accordingly.
Therefore, if we are determined to reform the technological environment, then how can we make it cost-effective? We should think that it will be possible to realize the low investment, effectiveness, and social environment. Otherwise it is useless.
Fifth, the evolution of the printing industry In the past we always talked about mechanization, automation, and recently upgraded to digital and networked. However, it is difficult to change the appearance of the printing industry without considering whether the actual conditions allow it or not and not to get rid of the original industrial production framework.
Let us talk about the difference between industry and industry.
Industry refers to a group of processing industries that, according to agriculture, forestry, aquaculture, and mining, collect raw materials from nature, change their physical and chemical properties through technological processes, or perform production activities for new products. It is based on raw materials, depending on how much raw materials are planned to produce and process. This is the pattern of planned economy.
Industry refers to the enterprise group where the supplier organizes and produces a corresponding quantity of goods or products closely related to it according to different requirements of the demanding party. The main focus is knowledge-intensive and high-processing. It is based on market demand, arrange production according to demand, and order production and sales. This is the model of a market economy.
When it is often heard that someone encounters problems that are difficult to solve, they complain that it is a mechanism or a system problem. In fact, with the framework of industrial production, it is very difficult to solve the problems in the market economy. The key is that the leader must stand up bravely.
The goal of evolution should be that enterprises must use their own products to occupy the market and change the original mechanism for accepting orders to create a mechanism for ordering. For this purpose, we must shift from the planned economic model of industrial production to the market economy model of industrial production.
Sixth, the early years of the century, the curtain of the new century gradually opened, in this market competition tide, there will be many entrepreneurs to think about, there is a considerable amount of money, used to add new machines, transform the technological environment. However, we must also consider that if advanced equipment cannot recover investment after 20 years, it would be tragic because the paperless society is not empty talk. According to statistics, currently 35% of the world's timber is used for papermaking. By the year 2025, when there were more than 8.5 billion people, there would not have been so much wood for papermaking. The paperless society was forced to start from the office. This in turn affects newspapers, books, and promotional materials. The lack of paper sources is bound to affect the printing industry. Therefore, in trying to change the corporate image, we must have a mature thinking on the development prospects.
According to intelligence and information, it is advisable to seriously consider the following two aspects.
The first is to create an environment-friendly printing company. This is a global expectation. It must be designed and enforced first. This is a very important condition for creating a mature printing environment.
The second is the pursuit of added value in the production process, which is also a feasible method for all printing companies to improve economic efficiency. That is, under the premise of using the same raw materials for the same amount of time and doing the same amount of work, high profits can be obtained.
7. What is an environmentally friendly printing company? 1. Protecting the production environment More than 20 years ago, when a good friend, Dr. Inoue Inoue, gave a lecture in China, the content he taught was the application of electrophotography in imaging. At that time, it was too advanced. Now this technology has become the darling of the printing industry. Electrophotography has adapted to the on-demand printing market environment, and has attracted many printers to adopt it because of its advantages of less space, energy saving, labor saving, low noise, and low investment. Electrophotographic technology uses laser light to record images on a charged photoreceptor, apply it with a charged colored powder, and then transfers it to paper to speed up the development of Eprint, Xeikon, DocuCdor, and Nexpress. Using this technology, small-lot color printing can also cope with it. All enterprises that introduce such equipment can reduce manpower and make the environment clean and sanitary. A dusting printing that can complete color printing, obtain high image quality, be cheap, and require only a small amount of working capital is introduced. It is a kind of direct printing that uses toner to eject directly onto paper and other recording media. It uses the principle of positive and negative charge attraction and sprays the oppositely charged toner onto the latent image on the paper. The particle size of the powder is 0.1. Μm to 10 μm, depending on application. Dusting printing can completely achieve stable and high-quality images quickly and at low cost. This type of printing is expected to become popular in the office and become the mainstream of the equipment in the office. A4 specifications can take 16 shots per minute. It is famous for the products of Swedish Aray Company.
2. The requirement to promote solventless asolvents in the workshop has been proposed for a long time. At the beginning of the century, it has been an important issue in many countries. Solvent-free is mainly to prevent damage caused by chemical substances, with emphasis on non-polluting inks. The main direction is the 1979 oil crisis. The soybean oil ink developed by the United States is now on the agenda. Soybean oil has a high degree of transparency and its coloration is superior to that of petroleum-based inks. Another feature of the soybean oil ink is that it rarely drops ink, and can be printed 10% to 15% more than a conventional ink. Since the ink produced with soybean oil as a solvent is odorless and non-toxic, the popularity of the environmental protection will surely accelerate the popularity of printing and color printing. At present, 90% of newspapers in the United States have begun to use soybean oil ink.
In addition, the use of non-aromatic solvents to produce low viscosity, high fluidity ink, both anti-dirt, but also to meet the requirements of high speed. This is also a choice for the production of pollution-free ink.
VIII. Increasing value added This has become the goal pursued by all industrial production companies. In the same period of industrial production, the same amount of labor is used for the same amount of work, but it is possible to obtain more than the original cost. Printing companies should conduct in-depth discussions in this regard.
Attempts to increase added value have been achieved through the use of functional inks, such as incorporation of blowing agents in inks, post-printing to 120°C for foaming and solidification, and printing of printed braille books for printing. Touch function outside the effect. Choosing the fragrance suitable for the scenery of the picture, adding it to the ink, making the ink itself have the desired aroma of the picture, used to print the fragrance picture, the fragrance publicity picture, the aroma poker, which is also obtained the olfactory feeling in addition to the printing effect. Features. Here I want to introduce two new functional inks. When gravure ink is used to print wallpaper, if gravure ink is added