Thermal printing market recovers, labels become key growth area

The past two years have been extremely challenging for the thermal printing market. From 2022 to 2023, the overall demand for thermal printing market was weak. Affected by a variety of factors such as the development of e-commerce, supply chain disruptions, and declining consumer demand for goods and services, the use of thermal printing has declined in the short term, and many projects requiring new equipment have been postponed or cancelled.

Green printing brings opportunities for thermal CTP, and fully automatic CTP is more popular

Thermal CTP refers to a thermal plate-making machine that uses thermal plate-making technology. It is the most popular choice among printers. It has many advantages, such as being insensitive to light, being able to operate under daylight conditions, being easy to operate, and having minimal impact on the environment. In terms of type, thermal CTP is often divided into three types: semi-automatic, fully automatic, and manual. In 2020, the market shares of the above three types of CTP were 18.86%, 75.34%, and 5.80%, respectively.

How to choose thermal, UV and CTP

When choosing thermal, UV, and CTP (computer-to-plate) technologies, multiple factors need to be considered comprehensively, including technical characteristics, cost-effectiveness, market demand, production environment, etc. The following is a detailed analysis of these three technologies and selection recommendations:

Analysis of China's UV-CTP plate industry development policies, industry chain overview and future prospects in 2024

The development of China's UV-CTP plate industry is driven and supported by a number of policies. In recent years, my country has introduced many relevant policies to promote the green, intelligent and high-quality development of the printing industry and promote my country's progress towards a printing power. These policies have pointed out the direction for the sustainable development of the UV-CTP plate industry and provided important policy support.

What are the applications of UV high gloss boards?

UV high gloss board is a new type of environmentally friendly material with the characteristics of high strength, wear resistance, waterproof and moisture-proof, corrosion resistance and fire resistance. This material has been widely used. The following is the application scope and scenarios of UV high gloss board.

UV-CTP plate market technology innovation and market forecast

With the rapid development of the printing industry and the popularization of CTP technology, the market size of UV-CTP plates continues to grow. According to data from CICC International Consulting, my country's offset printing plate market is dominated by CTP plates, of which UV-CTP plates occupy a certain market share. In the future, with the improvement of environmental protection requirements and the development of green printing technology, the UV-CTP plate market is expected to expand further.