Pre-press Design Considerations For Tube Packaging

There are many noteworthy details in the pre-press design process of tubes packaging. Here, I will focus on discussing the small text and line design considerations.

(1) Small text and lines should be designed as a single package to avoid inaccurate multi-color overprinting. The width of the thin line cannot be less than 0.1mm, otherwise it is easy to be lost in printing or the strokes are not clear. The net height of Chinese fonts is not less than 1.8mm, and the net height of English fonts is not less than 1.5mm.

(2) Special attention should be paid to the inverted text when designing. If the text is small, especially when the strokes are thinner, use a single color. You should also pay attention to the choice of fonts. Round-headed, bold, and equal-line fonts are the better choices, while fonts with a large difference in strokes such as Song Ti, Old Song Ti (horizontal thin and vertical thick) should be used with caution. When using this type of font, pay attention to the net height of Chinese fonts not less than 2.5mm, and the net height of English fonts not less than 2mm.

the reason:

(1) The viscosity of the ink printed later is too high compared with the ink printed first.

(2) The ink that is printed first has a slow fixation and a large amount of ink.

(3) The color intensity balance of the four-color ink is inappropriate.

Approach:

(1) Use high-viscosity inks to print first, and low-viscosity inks to print later. The ideal viscosity requirement should be gradually reduced in the order of overprinting colors.

(2) Use fast-fixing ink to print, and print thinner with high density, and print first with small pattern area to facilitate subsequent overprinting.