Tipping paper, as one of the auxiliary packaging materials for cigarettes, directly affects the quality of cigarettes. The printing process of tipping paper has developed rapidly, from the previous single-color coating process to multi-color gravure printing; from simple printing to integrated hot stamping, it is now developing in the direction of combining printing, hot stamping and punching. The following will describe the printing process of tipping paper products from several development stages.

The first stage: from single-color coating to multi-color gravure printing

This stage talks about the early stage of the development of tipping paper. The tobacco factory did not have very high requirements for the quality of tipping paper. Most of the production used coating machines and coated gravures for single-color printing. With the improvement of cigarette quality requirements and the strengthening of consumers' aesthetic concepts, the coating process can no longer meet the production requirements of tipping paper, and it has gradually changed to a multi-color gravure printing process, that is, from single color to multi-color.

The second stage: from multi-color printing to printing and hot stamping

With the rapid development of printing technology, new technologies such as hot stamping and pearlescent printing have been rapidly applied to the printing industry, and tipping paper printing is no exception. It has developed from multi-color printing to printing first, hot stamping, and then slitting. Some products of this period have no registration requirements, and some have horizontal and vertical registration requirements during hot stamping. Pearlescent ink and environmentally friendly alcohol-soluble ink are also used in printing. It can be said that the printing process of tipping paper has made a qualitative leap in this stage, and there are higher requirements for the quality of the tipping paper base paper and the quality of the operators.

The third stage: from the combination of printing and hot stamping to the combination of printing, hot stamping and perforating

With the further improvement of people's living standards and the increasingly stringent requirements of the state for environmental protection, the cigarette industry is developing in the direction of green tobacco. The perforation of tipping paper meets the requirements of tobacco factories for reducing tar and is rapidly applied to the production of tipping paper. Most of the perforations are made by laser.

In short, the production process of tipping paper products has roughly undergone the above three stages of evolution. With the approaching date of foreign tobacco giants entering the Chinese tobacco market and the major changes in the domestic tobacco system, the majority of tipping paper manufacturers are facing opportunities and challenges. Only by mastering the latest developments in the technology of the printing industry and the cigarette industry, developing in the direction of green printing and green tobacco, and using the latest tipping paper production technology, first-class production equipment and advanced management methods, can tipping paper manufacturers find their place in the fierce competition.