CTP purchase and use

In recent years, Hong Kong's huge market environment has driven the rapid development of Hong Kong's financial printing industry. Printing companies usually establish close cooperative relationships with investment banks and listed companies, providing comprehensive financial printing for corporate share issuers, well-known companies, financing institutions and government agencies. Its characteristic is that any customer's information is kept strictly confidential, any details are accurate, and the delivery time of the finished product is extremely short but never delayed.

The following are some of the views of two representative Hong Kong financial printing companies on the purchase and use of CTP.

IFN Financial Press Limited is located in Hong Kong's economic and financial center - Central, the existing screen "Huizhi 3" workflow and CTP "霹雳 霹雳神" 8800 prepress equipment and several large-scale Printing presses. Mr. Yuan Yi, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Mr. He Yaozong, Senior Manager of Operations, and Mr. Yao Xinrong, Information Technology Manager, recalled the situation where CTP was purchased at that time. Mr. He was proud to say, “Very good!”. The difficulties that most printing companies encountered in the initial use of CTP, IFN can be solved without even appearing, why not? Mr. He opened "successful tips" for us: to do enough homework in advance, only to change when there is 200% confidence. The more prepared the front, the better it can go.

For the original selection of CTP, Mr. He said that this is not a hasty decision, but after many years of research, IFN will CTP assessment range set: professional brands, equipment to be stable, process operations should be simple and so on several aspects. Before the installation, three people need to coordinate with one, that is, a combination of IT (computer support and network technology), output (document processing and color separation technology), and imposition (print imposition and binding knowledge), but find such a three-in-one expertise It is almost impossible. Therefore, targeted training should be conducted so that these three personnel can learn from each other and cooperate with each other. Therefore, after the CTP installation, the normal production can be completed smoothly. At present, the average monthly publication of IFN is 4,300, and the CTP publication accounts for 70% of the total publication. At the peak of production, the daily publication is as high as 300. The CTP's help with the entire production is immediate, and Mr. He said a typical example: the data of hundreds of 300-page books took only 6 hours from receipt of electronic documents, printing, and delivery of the final product. The quality of publication, the savings in manpower and time, the reduced error rate, and the automated workflow not only improved product quality, but also reduced production time by 1/4.

Finally, Mr. Yuan added that as a manager, after using CTP, although the quality of the printed matter was improved and the delivery time was short, the price could not be increased. IFN used the CTP as a device to optimize the internal operating environment. The more necessary tools for operating the system. Retaining old customers and attracting new customers must be based on the needs of the market to "stably change."

Hong Kong CGI (Asia) Co., Ltd. currently employs 80 people and has an annual turnover of approximately HK$46 million. Since the CGI British brothers have achieved remarkable results after installing the thermal CTP, Hong Kong's CGI company also has a very large number of publications, and the labor cost is very high. The output cost of using traditional films is obviously too high. The introduction of CTP can shorten operating procedures, reduce manual operations, and reduce the possibility of errors. Therefore, it is possible to reduce unnecessary labor, reduce costs, and achieve high-speed production from the perspective of efficiency, thus making the company more competitive. Time and cost are the main reasons why CGI decides to use CTP. In addition, the images published by CTP are more detailed. The documents provided by customers engaged in research often involve images and lines, but the CTP output avoids the occurrence of jagged or broken phenomena.

Prior to the introduction of CTP, CGI conducted a number of cost-effective analysis and comparisons of three brands of CTP equipment, such as after-sales service (because CGI is 24 hours in a row for 7 consecutive days), maintenance service fees, parts versatility, and equipment Space and so on. CGI Executive Chairman Miss.Lisa said: “With the introduction of CTP, the increase in production is a significant change. The printing time has been greatly shortened and the manpower cost has also been reduced. Therefore, in addition to the superior equipment performance and low failure rate, there are also places in place. We are very satisfied with our technical support, etc. Since last year's turnover of CGI has greatly increased, an average of 4,000 copies are published each month, of which 98% of our customers' products are exported via CTP, and production has reached saturation. Therefore, it is necessary to purchase more products. A CTP, together with the online online ordering service, provides customers with more value-added services.” (Note: The second screen CTP “CTP Publishing” 8600 purchased by CGI has been installed and put into production after the visit).



Source: "Printing World"