Corrugated Box Printing Machine FAQ Guide

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1. What is a corrugated box printing machine?

The corrugated box press machine is a printing equipment that prints the required text, patterns, and other information on the surface of the corrugated box. It generally includes processes such as plate loading, ink filling, embossing, and paper feeding. Carton printing generally includes single printing, slotting/die-cutting printing, printing slotting/die-cutting, box-gluing linkage production lines, etc.

2. What is the principle of a corrugated box printing machine?

When the corrugated box printing machine is working, the text and images are printed on the printing plate, installed on the printing machine, and then the printing machine is operated by a person, and the ink is evenly applied to the text and image on the printing plate. And then directly or indirectly, the image is transferred to corrugated cardboard or carton to make the same printed copy as the printing plate.

3. What are the classifications of corrugated box printing machines?

The corrugated box printing machine has many types, which include flexographic printing machines, printing slotting machines, prepress, linkage production lines, printing mold opening machines, and so on.

4. How to maintain the corrugated box printing machine?

In order to ensure the normal operation of the corrugated box printing machine, daily maintenance is essential and necessary. The daily maintenance of printing presses is an important task in the management of printing equipment.

1) Static maintenance

The static maintenance of the corrugated box printing machine refers to the maintenance of the machine in a static state.

• Establish rules and regulations for machine maintenance.

The maintenance of the offset printing machine should follow the instructions of the machine. Such as regular oil changes, cleaning filters, and regular inspections of machine accuracy.

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• Strengthen the maintenance of important components.

Gears, cams, sprockets, rollers, and bearings are the most important parts of the printing machine, and their maintenance should be different from other parts because the change in their precision will affect the final printing quality. The spring is the most used force balance mechanism in the machine. The quality of their work directly determines the precision of the mutual cooperation of the moving parts. The spring must have sensitive elasticity, and the hysteresis and non-recoverable plastic deformation of the spring have a great impact on the spring. If the above problems are found, the spring needs to be replaced immediately.

• Carry out technological transformation and strengthen machine maintenance.

Machine maintenance requires full consideration of the convenience of machine maintenance when designing the machine. However, due to the complexity of the printing press, it is obviously impossible to take every factor into account, and the maintenance of the machine will also change with the environment. Therefore, it is necessary to improve the structure that is not conducive to machine maintenance without affecting normal work.

2) Dynamic maintenance

The main contents of dynamic maintenance of corrugated box printing machines are:

• Machine readiness check.

Machine readiness can be detected by moving or turning the machine. For example, tools and other items are stuck in the machine; whether the installation position of the printing plate is appropriate, if not, it may cause damage to the printing plate or bring great difficulties to the search rules; whether the installation of the blanket is appropriate, if not, it may cause printing problems. In severe cases, it may cause damage to the blanket or the machine.

• Machine lubrication status.

First of all, you can observe whether the oil circuit of the machine is smooth through the oil label. If the oil level is empty or the oil level is not clear, stop the machine in an emergency and check carefully for oil leakage. Oil leaks from machines are easy to spot but difficult to find out why. For machines such as sliding bearings, low speed is not conducive to lubrication, especially point or low-speed operation has a greater impact on lubrication.

Therefore, before doing this kind of operation, it is best to lubricate the idle machine, which is also the first job that should be done before every project. The oil pump of some machines is driven by the main engine, so at the reversing point, the oil line will not only fail to refuel but will pull the oil line back to the fuel tank, which is very dangerous, so the reversing point should be avoided. The lubrication of some important parts can also be detected by the temperature of the metal attached to it. If the temperature is too high, there is a problem with the lubrication.

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We're currently screen printing our corrugated election signs which are mainly two colors. I'm looking for a flatbed printer so I can off load the smaller runs to the flatbed. I'm concerned about PMS matching for colors like reflex blue, purples, yellows etc. The other concern is the speed of the flatbed and what level off print speed I can get away with without causing banding. Most of the entry level flatbeds are doing about seven 4 x 8's and hour. It's too slow but I also don't want to spend 200k. We'll also be putting our 4 color work on the machine that I'm currently brokering out. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. I cant answer your questions but consider looking at globalgarage for a used printer that will get you the speed you are looking for at a better price. You may be able to find a low hour "$200k machine" at a reasonable price. Ive seen a lot of low hour units on there and would assume people are upgrading in a good economy with cheap dollars.

I cant answer your questions but consider looking at globalgarage for a used printer that will get you the speed you are looking for at a better price. You may be able to find a low hour "$200k machine" at a reasonable price. Ive seen a lot of low hour units on there and would assume people are upgrading in a good economy with cheap dollars.

Thanks, I'll check that site out. You don't want a flatbed. Go for a hybrid. The wider you go, the more sheets per hour you can print. I know you don't want to spend $200k, but if you're looking to do more than 10 sheets an hour, you're going to have to. For $250-300k you can get a nice printer that'll do around 20 sheets an hour (with a good operator). I know my EFI H is only doing about 4 boards an hour (i run at 600x600 so I could probably go faster if I cut the resolution). I've heard its replacement 16h is ~2x as fast, but that's still nowhere near 10. If you're mainly doing coro, I'm not sure I'd recommend the H as on heavy coverage, I don't think it cures fully (works fine on other media), the 16h uses different heads so I'm not sure if it's better on coro or not. FB700/750. We are the same type shop as you, 1/2/3 color screen printing. We bought used FB700 last year and it is great for the short runs as well as small full color jobs. On express (2nd lowest/fastest setting) we get decent prints at 50 ds 18X24 an hour and around 12 4'X8' ss an hour. As far as color matching goes we are still working on that one also. Good luck. We have a CET Q5- flatbed, and at the fastest speed (2 pass), I can do approximately 6 full double-sided 4x8 sheets per hour (12 if only single sided). Normally I print yard signs either 2 pass or 3 pass depending on the design. We have 3 Ricoh Gen 5 printheads (KC,MY,WW) installed, and we do have the option to add an additional row of printheads for theoretically twice the print speed.

We bought our printer before Vanguard and CET came out with their printers using Kyocera printheads, so I'm not sure how they would compare with pricing, but I would definitely take a look at them. Our Q5- with 3 Ricoh printheads was sub-$150k, and if you don't need white, that would drop the price down even further.

We have a fb750, depending on quality required we can get up to 21 4x8s /hour. That's in billboard more which is suitable for political or bandit signs, if you need slightly better express gets us around 15/hr. In outdoor which is overkill for coro we get 7-8.

We have a fb750, depending on quality required we can get up to 21 4x8s /hour. That's in billboard more which is suitable for political or bandit signs, if you need slightly better express gets us around 15/hr. In outdoor which is overkill for coro we get 7-8.

Thanks, I'll check out the FB750. I'm also looking at the vanguard and looking at the efi 16h. I'm trying to calculate whats the minimum boards per hour I need to make it work. I"m thinking 12-15 per hour. Don't even try efi. Ferry slow, loads of bugs, pretty week vacuum and to sensitive jam sensors to run on coro.

Concider FB, pay your attention to the printing quality. When using without lc lm its output quality rather outdoor than indoor and droplet size stricter to 12pl.
Also pretty slow and equipped by murcury lams affecting on a heat sensitive media.

CET is actually chinese Handtop machine. Pretty fine in comparison to other Chinese ones. Have no idea BTW about its price in states. I would may stay on the last one, but you will need a really experienced engineer to install it properly.

We're currently screen printing our corrugated election signs which are mainly two colors. I'm looking for a flatbed printer so I can off load the smaller runs to the flatbed. I'm concerned about PMS matching for colors like reflex blue, purples, yellows etc. The other concern is the speed of the flatbed and what level off print speed I can get away with without causing banding. Most of the entry level flatbeds are doing about seven 4 x 8's and hour. It's too slow but I also don't want to spend 200k. We'll also be putting our 4 color work on the machine that I'm currently brokering out. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

What’s entry level? Seven an hour? I formerly installed flora printers (about 230 flatbeds) and the current flatbed I’m selling uses Konica i printheads and on the high end can print a 4x 8 in 90 seconds and that’s at about $130k or less. 7 boards an hour is speeds my friend. Feel free to me at or call me at(714) 651-. I’m not a sales expert, I’m the guy who installs and fixes these printers. I’ll give you a no nonsense real talk about these printers. Barry, I can highly recommend the CET and Vanguard products I'm sure in Ma. you heard of Alpha Imaging which I ran in NY for 17 years. I've sold and supported many of these as well as the HP Fb's and the Colorspan printers they used to be before HP bought them. I've also sold quite a few Oce Canon flatbed UV printers.
One of the things you should seriously consider is purchasing one that has LED UV lights instead of the old school UV Lights which get incredibly hot and don't last too long.
If speed is the issue, the CET and Vanguard can be updated down the road or right up front for the quickest printing. If double sided is a high volume of what you do, Hybrid printers are not your best choice. The FB printers from HP are decent hybrid printers but the future of them is an issue.