What does a knife plate mean in printing?
Knife version, that is, grinding cut version, usually made by the version of the room, but also some direct out of the laser version! When do the box we need to do is to understand the folding and packing, without even a knife version are made, the individual must version in addition to a knife version of the film, such as grinding or special shape of elliptical things, more accurate a knife version line, usually when we make up as long as the foot line marked with the standard can be.
The knife is in accordance with the version of lines in the form of the final printed product is drawn, it is sometimes necessary to draw a good knife mold line to do other things, such as packing box. Draw it in a monochrome line and outline after finished bleeding, in PS or CDR.
Some products need to make special shapes, such as a single page like round, to die cutting out special shape, need to make the knife on the die-cutting machine die cutting version, you need a knife shape version, are generally bars, mosaic you need the shape of steel bar on a piece of wood,
Simply put, is that you need the finished product is not an ordinary rectangle, but different shapes, then you need to make a special shape with your consistent die cutting board in order to cut! This die cutting board is the knife version