Four common types of paper in the packaging and printing industry

The packaging and printing industry cannot do without cardboard, and there are many types of cardboard. In addition to being printed, these cardboards also need to be moulded, such as the cardboard display racks that we topwon produce. Below with you to introduce the packaging printing industry common four kinds of cardboard

1. coated cardboard

Copperplate cardboard, also known as printing coating cardboard, this cardboard is coated with a layer of white paste on the original cardboard, after calendering and made. cardboard surface smooth, high whiteness, small expansion, ink absorption and reception of the state is very good. Mainly used for printing high-level book covers and illustrations, colour pictures, a variety of fine goods advertisements, samples, commodity boxes, trademarks and so on.

Non-glossy coated cardboard, compared with coated cardboard, less reflective. With its printed patterns, although not as colourful as coated cardboard, but the pattern is more delicate than coated cardboard, more upscale. Printed graphics, images with a three-dimensional sense, so this coated cardboard can be widely used to print pictorials, advertisements, landscapes, beautiful calendars, people photography and so on.

2、Cardboard

Cardboard is the ideal material for making high-grade packaging boxes. Its good handfeel, ideal colour and dot transfer conditions, as well as stiffness and surface strength are the reasons for designers to choose. According to the requirements of different boxes, designers can choose various cardboard designs.

(1) White cardboard

The characteristics of white cardboard are not only high whiteness, but also soft gloss, elegant and noble, good transfer of dots when printing, levels and colour reproduction can reach a fairly high level, and feel delicate. Designers often use white cardboard for gift boxes, cosmetic boxes, wine boxes, tags and other high-grade products.

(2) Glass cardboard

Glass cardboard is a kind of cardboard produced by vitrification treatment on the surface of white cardboard, the surface gloss of this cardboard is very high, and the feel is smooth, and its visual effect is higher than that of cardboard and coated cardboard after UV varnishing, and the products made of this cardboard are very bright and eye-catching. Designers often use glass cardboard in the packaging of drugs and high-grade cosmetics.

3.Board cardboard

Board is a laminated structure of the cardboard, its quantitative 220g/m2, 240g/m2, 250g/m2 ……400g/m2, 450g/m2, the range is very wide, you can choose the margin of various materials in the largest. This cardboard has a certain degree of stiffness and surface strength, especially coated whiteboard cardboard because it has a surface coating, printing ink is not easy to penetrate, the amount of less, the printed image of the colour and dot transfer good. However, the disadvantage is that the flatness is poor, the printing speed is slow; another disadvantage is that the feel of the cardboard compared to the obvious roughness.

4. corrugated cardboard

The most commonly used is corrugated cardboard, corrugated cardboard itself is quite dark, so when choosing the colour of the printing must be taken into account as far as possible to choose the colour saturation, coloring power of the ink (such as red), otherwise the printed colour and the hope of the colour there will be a big gap. Ink viscosity is the main indicator to be controlled in corrugated cardboard printing, and it is one of the main factors affecting the printing colour condition.

Corrugated board is used in display racks for food, clothing, sporting goods, IT products, daily living products, automotive products, music, books and other types of industries.

In short, these are the four common types of cardboard used in the packaging and printing industry, and the cardboard used in the production of cardboard display racks is usually based on corrugated cardboard, as it is sturdy, convenient for customised production, installation, easy to transport and other features that create the advantages of cardboard display racks, which are then widely used.