Book printing quality management experience and methods

People who have done book printing and quality management know that many books and periodicals make you dizzying from printing, page selection to folding, copying, binding, waxing, copying, binding, and so on. As long as the process is wrong, the subsequent process is generally difficult to find, so it will cause the occurrence of non-conforming products, the quality of the entire batch of products will be reduced.

The author has been engaged in the quality management of books and publications for more than a decade in the printing industry. From this decade-long experience in management work, we must understand that in order to improve the overall quality of books and periodicals, we must strictly grasp every basic process. The following are some experiences and methods of the quality management of each process that the author summarized in his company's work in more than a decade, for the reference of colleagues.

1. The key to printing to improve the quality of printed products is to enhance the accountability of the printing staff. The specific approach is to print out a proof sheet (this proof sheet must be confirmed by the captain first), and the quality inspector on duty shall carry out a full proofreading, make a form for record and sign, and bear any responsibility for any mistakes.

After the sample was signed, during the normal printing process of the batch, we provided the captain with a full inspection for every 500 impressions, and the deputy took a sample proof for every 200 impressions. If there is any doubt, the batch (500 sheets or 200 sheets) should be separated and clearly marked so that the next step (selection page) can be smoothly selected. However, we once discovered that nearly one-third of the prints found after the printing was finished had a quality problem. According to the quality problem, it should be printed in one of the three shifts A, B, and C. However, after the selection page, it was not possible to identify which shift was printed. As a result, the responsibility could not be traced to the responsible person. . However, through this incident, we have added a rule to our quality management system: that is, at each place of a plate (posting marks or other places that do not affect the finished product), add “A, B, C” to the drying. The 3 words are used as 3 job numbers. In this way, when quality problems arise, they can be traced to the finished books and magazines. At the same time, this is also a powerful means to strengthen their sense of responsibility.

2. Selection page (posts)
Page selection may seem simple, but it must be very careful and responsible people to be qualified for this job. The work of selection of posts focuses on "tick" and "points": "Tick" is to reject unqualified products and secondary and waste products; "sub" is to classify products of various levels. Therefore, the page selection personnel must be very careful. After the selection of the post, a complete report on the quality of the selected product must be made in the form of a table. Since the printed matter with the previous problems during the printing process is basically marked, the problematic product can be easily selected when the page is selected. In this way, our quality management personnel can check the selection form to make it The quality level is well known.

3. Folding The current folding has manual folding and machine folding. No matter what type of folding, the first requirement is that you cannot take the wrong page, and then you cannot reverse the page. According to our quality problems that have occurred over a long period of time, we can know that the mistakes caused by folding personnel are mostly these two phenomena. Once the first phenomenon occurs, it is a large quality accident. This kind of error is most likely to occur in books of the same series and in different books. Our company has ever appeared. There was a series of English exercise books printed at the time, including the first one, the second two and the third three. Due to the similarity of the characters in the quotation marks, the folding staff could not read the content, and the three kinds of signatures were placed in one place. A careless folding staff went after the third post of the first day to get the post. , but took the third post of the second day, folded and then put together with the first one, the post mark hit Qi, page number just connected. As a result, after the finished product of this book, the quality inspection personnel inside the factory did not check it out and sent it back to the student's hand, causing a very significant impact. The second phenomenon is reversing the pages of the book. If there are several rehearsals, the pager’s negligence will be folded in. If it is not very careful, it is difficult to check it out.
To prevent the above two phenomena from happening, you must do well when the printed pages have not yet been pulled into the folding workshop. Similar books should not be pulled together. Even if they are not put together, they must have very clear signs. , and in which direction these signs can be clearly seen. Only by doing this can you overcome the wrong post. As for the requirements for folding pages, page hits, and so forth, it is a commonplace problem, so this phenomenon rarely occurs.

4. Baling and flattening Bundling This process mainly requires that the process be strictly controlled and that the employee's operation method is correct and appropriate. Generally, no quality problems will occur.

5, the probability of mistakes with the post with the post process is large, with the wrong posts, more posts, less posts and other phenomena often. However, as long as the post is self-checked and mutual-checked (the employees check each other), errors can be easily detected. When posting, it is easy to take the wrong post, so the quality management of the post needs to be consistent with the folding request, so as not to take the wrong post.

6, waxing waxing in the past are manual brushing method, after technological transformation, many companies are now using brush wax machine to brush wax. Whether it is waxing by hand or waxing the machine, the solubility of the wax and the brushing gap of the signature are the most noteworthy. Quality management personnel must also pay special attention to checking this point. If operators do not do a good job, the next process will result in difficulty in distribution or mistakes. Therefore, this process needs to arrange some more experienced people to operate (especially hand-waxing) in order to avoid such mistakes.

7, brush glue, glue brush and waxing process, some companies have also used automatic brushing machine. Like the waxing machine, the gluing machine also needs to consider the drying temperature and the consistency of the glue. These two points are done in order to facilitate the splitting of the process.

8, flat-stitched, plastic bound (now books are generally no longer ping, no longer discussed here), plastic binding is a major focus of books and magazines quality management and difficult. Many problems such as degumming, blistering, leaking, wild glue, back wrinkling and so on are very easy to occur in this process. Therefore, before carrying out large-volume adhesive bonding, firstly, small batch tests should be carried out. After the test products come out, quality management personnel To conduct some superior performance test (such as placing in the refrigerator and drying room) on the glued out test article, if the temperature is lower (-20°C), the glue will be brittle and loose; the temperature is higher (40°C) Whether the glue will be soft and blistering will cause quality accidents when the book is sent to a hot area or a cold area. In addition, whether the wild glue and the glue hole and the back ridge are solved in the small-batch test can be mass-produced. Before the mass production, the quality management personnel must approve and sign the sample. In the process of mass production, frequent sampling inspections are also required, and attention is paid to the technical indicators such as adhesive temperature, adhesive temperature, and plywood pressure on the binding machine. Changes, due to a number of changes in the data caused by a large number of book degumming and other quality issues often occur, so this requires special attention.

9. Finished product cutting The finished product cutting is a final process. This process is completed and marks the successful completion of a book. If all the previous processes are completed and there is a mistake in the final cut, then all previous efforts will be abandoned and a lot of manpower and material resources will be wasted. Therefore, we must strictly implement the sample-taking system in this process, strictly checking the manuscript, and checking whether there are dimensional deviations, hanging angles, and so on. After batch sampling, the cutting deputy (the picking staff behind the machine knife) shall have an inspection system. For example, if our company stipulates that after every 20 hand-cuts, we shall stop the books for inspection and find that there are dimensional deviations and hangs. Problems such as angles, knife and flowers should be corrected in case of emergency, otherwise the responsibility of the deputy should be investigated.

10. Bundling, baling, baling, and packaging are auxiliary processes. Generally, there is no impact on the quality of books. It is necessary to pay attention to the number of points enough, solid, but not too tight, so as not to loose or too tight and damage the book. Quality management personnel should also not forget to perform visual inspection on the packaging so that each process can be qualified.

11. Sampling of finished products Sampling of finished product batches shall be established in the warehouse of the company (public plant), and special quality management personnel shall carry out spot inspections strictly in accordance with sampling inspection methods for books (teaching materials). The company's internal standards can be higher than the national standards. If a certain index fails to meet the national standards or internal standards in the sampling inspection, it should be immediately reworked, returned to repair, and screened to strive to make the factory's book qualification rate reach 100%.

The above is the experience and method used by the author in the company's book printing quality management. The company has achieved good results. In the sampling inspection of the quality of the company's books and periodicals in the higher authorities and industry departments, each time All products have been identified as good products (first-class products). Of course, a meter can be used to make a meal. Other companies may have more advanced quality management experience and methods, depending on the specific conditions of the company.

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