Research and development of laser technology had great influencein various fields of military and economic profound impact, especially abroad. The major domestic institutes, colleges and universities in the field of laser research is leaps and bounds, the fruits, but the extent of its practical industrial application of catch-up R & D speed. To let laser technology combine with various fields of the national economy, promoting productivity development is a top priority of our colleges and universities, research institutes and enterprises.
The market opportunity

In the field of packaging and printing, there is a very important branch - Flexible printing. It is widely used for flexible printing in the paper packaging, plastic packaging, and printing, flexible printing is environmental, economic, large-scale production is available. As the market demand increases, the plate-making technology is becoming mature, the plate is high-precision printed. Before the introduction of laser technology, plate-making process is divided into two kinds: one is hand-carved; photographic exposure. The former is primitive, slow, labor-intensive, can only meet the needs of low-end market; the latter is more refined, but the cost is extremely high, complex process, environmental problems, can only meet the demand for high-end market. Market demand toward high-quality, high-speed, low-cost, low-volume direction of development, this laser technology into the field to bring opportunity, especially in the printing of corrugated boxes, the demand for laser engraving technology is imminent.

Third, thelaser engravingtechnology

Rubber plate material used for hand-engraving, CO2 laser tube is sufficient to satisfy the needs of most users. Flight optical system to focus the beam transmitted to the work surface, We can use common graphic layout software such as CORELDRAW, PHOTOSHOP, AUTOCAD, and other graphics required vector or bitmap editing in the computer output to matching and machine control software, set up, such as cutting speed, engraving speed, engraving, precision parameters, you can start cutting and carving on the work piece, the processing course of their work is actually using the software to control the laser energy, control the movement of the laser heads direction and speed, the rubber plate material ablation. This laser compared with traditional hand-carved sculpture, greatly improving the carving precision and speed of the dot pattern can be achieved up to 100DPI the accuracy of approximation in the printing effect on the photographic plate, in the production speed greatly exceeds the artificial, to speed up the user speed of response to customer needs. While its production cost is lower, than the manual than photomechanical low several times. Of the machine to meet the needs of more than 80% of the cardboard boxes market, in early 2001 Golden Laser Applied Technology Co., Ltd. for the first time to bring products to market, it caused the sensation of the industry, a few short years has become the industry will Preparation of models, the domestic population has reached thousands. Han’s Yueming Laser and other companies launched a slope carving techniques of the technology using a modified laser excitation power, more precise control of laser energy output, the engraving text or outlets around the formation of a slope, so that the plates can withstand greater pressure on the time of printing, not easily deformed and dot gain of such models has been introduced, and more popular with its users.

The outlook

Laser engraving technology in the field of flexible printed low-end market has made a great success, but from a purely technical point of view is not very profound, especially for laser businesses, companies such as Golden Laser is only good at seizing market opportunities coupled with its relatively superb business operations. Terms of market demand and flexible printing photoengraving process is not satisfactory, as the higher market demands for flexible printing, laser engraving technology involved in this field, it is possible to use different plates and choose different wavelengths of laser ,then can achieve faster speed carving, which can replace the photographic process. The system can be more precise than photographic processes, flexible plates to faster this regard, foreign models, the country believe, will soon be launched involved in the technical aspects of the content of such models will be more, not only laser technology, machinery, electronics, software, in particular, materials technology, and once successful, will have a huge market demand of our laser machine.

Review

In order to achieve greater development, laser equipments must be close to the market demand in all aspects of the national economy. This advanced laser technology should meet market demand in order to create tremendous value.