You need a wide range of equipment required to start a printing business depending on the size of your business, production needs and type of business. The following article will list equipment that we feel is important and should not be overlooked.

1. Some Equipment Before Printing

These are also important auxiliary printing devices that cannot be ignored.
File handling system: Includes computers, design software, etc. for processing and designing printing files.
Film generators, CTP straighteners: used to convert electronic files into film for printing plates or direct plate making.
Laser scanners: used to scan originals and convert them into digital files for processing.

The above are the must-have equipment to carry out your printing business, whether you are in the book printing or advertising printing business, etc.

2. Printer

Many types of printing presses exist in the market, and you need to purchase them corresponding to your business:

(1) Digital printing machine: suitable for small quantities, and multiple varieties of rapid printing.
(2) Offset presses: including single-color, two-color and multi-color offset presses for large-volume printing of books, magazines, picture albums and other printed materials.
(3) Cylinder printing machine: used for printing magazines, picture albums and other large format prints, full, folio, quarto, octavo and other models can be selected according to the size of the printing format.
(4) UV printing machine: If it involves the printing of special materials (such as PVC), a UV printing machine may be required.
(5) Screen Printing Equipment: Used for printing on a variety of materials like textiles, ceramics, and other substrates.
(6) 3D Printers: For printing three-dimensional objects from digital files, useful for niche markets.
Not all of these presses we have listed above need to be purchased, if your business is large enough to consider. With a limited capital base, you need to focus your resources mainly on your main business.

3. Some Equipment After Printing

We suggest that you would be better off making a detailed categorized purchasing list, the equipment will be numerous and complex.

1) Binding machine: to staple multiple sheets of paper together to form a book or document, if you have this.
(2)Gluing machine, creasing machine, grooving machine, bookcase machine: used for gluing, creasing, grooving and making bookcases for books.
(3)Riding binding machine: specially used for binding all kinds of thin booklets, picture albums, magazines and so on.
(4)Disc Gluing Machine: Used for books’ gluing treatment.
(5) Paper cutter: used to cut printed paper into the required size.
(6)Large format cover trimming knife: used for fine trimming of the cover.
(7) Cold laminator and thermal laminator: used for laminating the cover to improve the texture and durability of the printed materials.

4. Other Equipment

(1) Calendar: used to cover the coating on the surface of paper and improve the brightness of printed materials.
(2)Drying machine: used to dry the ink quickly to prevent pollution and sticky hands.
Engraving and hot stamping machine: Used to make high-grade effect prints, such as hot stamping and embossing.
(3)Paging machine: Used to transfer heaps of flat printing materials separately to the printing production line, without the need for manual hand one by one to feed, can be accurate, fast, stable completion of the printing process, the effect is excellent, and support the integration of the production line, is an indispensable and important equipment for the printing industry, which can reduce a large number of labor expenditures. You’d better find a trustworthy paging machine manufacturer to help you complete a customized paging system solution to provide your printing business with economic benefits.

In a word, there is a wide range of equipment required to start a printing business, and the exact configuration should be based on the actual situation and business needs of your business. When choosing equipment, we suggest that you consider the performance of the equipment, price, maintenance costs and productivity and other factors. It is best not to purchase second-hand equipment, which is prone to after-sales problems. At the same time, with the development of science and technology, printing equipment is also constantly updated, enterprises should pay attention to the industry dynamics, the timely introduction of new technologies, and new equipment, to improve competitiveness and productivity.