Understanding the printing of packaging aluminum tube

This article will describe how the printing process for packaging aluminum tubes? How are the graphics on the packaging aluminum tubes produced?

What’s the aluminum collapsible tube?

Material: Made from united 99.5% aluminum slug

Thread: M7/3.5, M9/5.5, M11/7, M15/10, M20/15

Nozzle: Metricseald, Plastic-on-sert, Extended Nozzle, Extended Plastic, Metricsealed open, Plastic on-sert

Capacity(ml): 3.5-200ml

Diameter(mm):13.5mm,16mm,19mm,22mm,25mm,28mm,30mm,32mm,35mm,38mm, 40mm

Length (mm): 60-200mm

Thickness(mm): 0.1–0.16 mm

Surface finishing: 1-6color offset printing, white plain, aluminum oil plain, glossy or matte printed

MOQ: 20,000–50,000 PCS

Widely range of usage for empty aluminum tubes for its advantages and resistance: Cosmetics, Permanent hair color, Professional hair color, Hair dyes, Skin-care, hand cream, facial cream, mask, Personal care, toothpaste, pharmaceutical ointment, Gels, Glue, Adhesive, Food, Cream ketchup, Chocolate, Watercolor, oil pigment.

What kind of aluminum tubes by printing industry?

Empty Aluminum tube has printed aluminum tube or white plain tube or silver plain tube or black plain tube or other custom colors on request. Clients can do various methods like silk screen printing, hot stamping, silver stamping or label a sticker on those plain tube. Most of the clients use the printed tube for its quality, price, and beautiful look.

The printed aluminum tube can be used for filling cosmetics, personal care, skin care products, pharmaceutical ointment, glue, pigments and other cream objects. In our daily life, we see collapsible aluminum tube such as cosmetics tube, hand cream aluminum tube, hair dye aluminum tube, the tube body printed with customized printing with colorful patterns, different sizes of text, conspicuous corporate logos and so on, printed aluminum tube is very beautiful.

These bright and colorful graphic effects are produced by the offset printing process, is generated by the offset printing process, referred to as “offset” this printing method belongs to a lithographic printing is now the most common use.

What is the working principle of packaging printing?

The printing of squeeze aluminum tubes is based on the principle of image transfer using an elastic rubber layer. Aluminum tubes are cylindrical, used in the production of printing presses generally by the plate cylinder, ink delivery devices and rubber cylinders constitute the transfer of the printing machine. The ink is first adjusted. The images of each color plate are transferred to the rubber cylinder impressions and then transferred to the surface of the empty aluminum tube.

One key step in the production of printed aluminum tubes is the preparation of the graphic file. The most popular printing machines are 4C, which means it just can print 4C artwork. Beauty Sky has 6C printing machines which can print up to 6C artwork. For example, in 4Color offset printing, the final draft of the graphic design, to be expressed in Pantone color code., a total of four professional colors, is then converted to a printing plate making negative (called a film). It is important to note that before official production, a trial run must be conducted to adjust the ink to the best ratio to ensure the finished product.

The trial run production stage can sometimes take even several hours or half a day to adjust to the best results. This is the reason why the MOQ of printed aluminum tubes is relatively high. When the quantity is low, the cost is too high and the unit price is higher.

The ink is an important part of the whole process of printing. It is essential to use high-quality and safe inks for printing. It is something that every responsible manufacturer should consciously implement. This is the basic with Beauty Sky Packaging which uses the top brand ink.

Among printing inks, the one that has a greater impact on safety is the level of lead content. The America Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA 2008), for example, specifies limits on lead content: the amount of lead contained in paints and other surface coatings used by consumers must be reduced from 600 ppm (parts per million) volume concentration values to 90 ppm volume concentration values.

The important role of printing for packaging aluminum tubes.

1. It can be produced in large quantities quickly and with consistent quality.

Using offset printing technology, you can print clear and sharp patterns and text in large quantities quickly. Can make full use of the dot, reflecting the rich multi-layered color effect. The production equipment of automated machines can ensure the stable quality of aluminum tube printing. The color of the same batch of products can be completely consistent.

However, if you change the producing line, the annealed temperature is the same, even using the same ink, the color will be a little different, but will try to control the similarity by more than 95%. So the same product, Beauty Sky packaging produces the same product for the customer by the same production line.

2. Can save the cost of production and maintenance.

Compared with the traditional manual labeling, automatic production of machines is faster and more accurate, and the offset printing ink layer is thin, using little ink. In addition, the printing plate will not directly touch the surface of the aluminum tube to be printed, so the packaging aluminum tube will not be lost, which can save production and maintenance costs in many ways. Because the aluminum tubes are produced by automatic machine, printing is the middle process in mass production, the subsequent need for internal coating, end latex, automatic assembling of the cap, check before packaging, packing …etc. So white plain tube aluminum plain tube without printing can not save this procedure but can reduce unqualified tube and some ink, so the price of the white tubes and the price of the printed tubes is not much different.

3. Can allow consumers to more clearly distinguish between different products businesses.

Aluminum tube printing represents the face of the product, different products have different design patterns, and color text. Merchants can be carefully designed through the logo and graphics to highlight the characteristics and style of their own products. Through the printing effect of the finished product, consumers can more clearly identify different products and businesses, to achieve the effect of publicity.

4. Deepen the visual experience of consumers and consolidate the impression of consumers.

Beautifully printed, brightly colored packaging aluminum tubes are more likely to attract consumers’ eyes and stimulate the desire to buy. So the beauty care cosmetics, pigments, toothpaste and other products on the market, always pay special attention to packaging design, is to enhance the visual experience of consumers.

Conclusion

In order to produce beautiful packaging aluminum tube, from graphic design to the actual printing process are not negligible links, after all, today’s consumers have not only focused on the function of the product, the product’s appearance is also as concerned! Good printing, more deeply into the hearts and minds of consumers to remember your brand and expand sales!

Good packaging requires excellent product design staff to complete, good printing quality must be given to a reputable aluminum tube supplier, Beauty Sky Packaging from China must be a good choice for you! Contact us, we are here to custom and protect your products!

Edit on 2022-4-15