COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF PRINT WASTAGE OCCURRING IN SHEET-FED OFFSET PRINTING ORGANIZATIONS FOR CARTON BASED PACKAGING APPLICATIONS

Mono and liner cartons are widely used in packaging industry to pack a wide range of products like pharmaceutical cartons, agarbatti, coils, ghee, tea, milk powder etc. Objective of this research paper is to analyze and compare various causes of print wastage for mono and liner carton based packaging applications. Around 10 printed jobs of liner carton and mono carton each were examined for print wastage. Print wastage was majorly caused during printing and UV application in case of mono carton; on the other hand in case of liner carton major wastage is caused by printing and liner machine. Further, it was resulted that print wastage is significantly higher in case of liner carton.