The automation level of printing machinery is mainly reflected in four aspects:

Mechanization, single-machine automation, automation of auxiliary operations, and automation of the printing product manufacturing process. In the printing process, the manual operation procedures that have not yet been mechanized mainly occur after printing. In many printing enterprises, the binding of books and periodicals (folding pages, collating pages, gluing covers) and the distribution of newspapers (inserting pages, counting pages, bundling) are still carried out manually. In the pre-press stage, there are still enterprises that use manual panel assembly. These operations can be fully handled by book and periodical binding equipment, automatic newspaper distribution equipment and automatic typesetting systems.

The combination of functions such as printing, punching, numbering, rewinding, varnishing, carbonization, longitudinal and transverse ridge lines, and format transformation of the table printing machine; The paper cutter has also achieved automation in paper feeding, page insertion, fractionation, paper cutting, conveying, paper unloading and die-cutting. In recent years, to safeguard independent intellectual property rights and the interests of enterprises, anti-counterfeiting printing technology has been widely adopted in the printing of printed materials or securities. In addition to anti-counterfeiting ink and anti-counterfeiting watermark paper, anti-counterfeiting technologies also include holographic hot stamping and embossing anti-counterfeiting, moire stripe screen printing anti-counterfeiting, and multiple printing process combination anti-counterfeiting measures. These requirements are generally connected with equipment for printing, which greatly improves work efficiency.

The automation of the printing product manufacturing process involves two aspects: one is the transmission of printing information, that is, the digital workflow, which is solved by standardization and corresponding software and hardware interfaces; The other one is the connection of the equipment used in the printing process, such as the equipment for one-time book printing and binding that has been solved in the world. Some devices themselves have already been configured with multiple functions, such as the combination of various printing methods of flexographic printing machines and functions like cutting, die-cutting and hot stamping.

The relatively low level of single-machine automation in the printing process of printing machinery is mainly reflected in the pre-press and post-press stages, such as plate exposure machines, plate overprinting machines, paper cutting machines, hot stamping machines, die-cutting and creasing machines, etc. Nowadays, there are updated and upgraded products of these devices, which can greatly enhance the level of single-machine automation in the printing process. The automation of auxiliary operation in printing machinery is mainly manifested in that, in addition to the widely adopted variable frequency speed regulation, PLC, CP window, CPU and CPC in high-end offset printing machines, It also adopts mature technologies such as automatic registration, water-ink balance and nonlinear tracking, automatic paper change pre-adjustment, automatic paper threading, automatic rubber sheet washing, automatic plate changing, automatic paper feeding, automatic double-sided flipping printing, rewinding function, and single sheet cutting function.