Platemaking Technology "Digital" and "Analogue"

With the rapid development of information technology, computers and graphic processing technologies are increasingly popularized and popularized, and the printing industry is constantly undergoing a transition from analog production methods to digital workflows.

Computer to Plate (CTP technology) has become a hot topic, and flexo direct platemaking (commonly referred to as "digital flexo") technology has also developed rapidly in the packaging and printing industry. , And won the user's approval with high quality.

However, some people still think that it is inappropriate to call such a flexographic platemaking technology a “digital flexo”. Kenny Lennox is one of them. Not long ago, he also wrote an article specifically to discuss this issue, but also made a full argument.

"Digital" is relative to "analogue." Basically, digital information comes from the material world that we gradually recognize.

For example, we all know that the effect of listening to music on a digital CD player is different from that of live broadcasting. The reason is that computer, disk, and CD players use digital information and digital information codes. The order of the arrangement is not the same as that of things.

After we have to convert digital information into analog information, we can correctly understand the meaning and meaning of things.

If the CD player is unsuccessful in decoding, a series of distortions will occur. After the originally recorded music on the CD player is played out through the speaker, the sound quality will decrease.

Although it is possible to include "surround stereo" in an analog workflow (in digital workflows, "surround stereo" sometimes suffers from intermittent and unsmooth issues), but to a certain degree of quality loss, this is a simulation workflow. One of the inherent characteristics.