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With the improvement of the digitalization of the printing and packaging industry and the intensification of the domestic market competition, more and more printing enterprises have turned their eyes to the foreign printing and packaging market. While foreign enterprises often judge product quality through data, GMI, as an organization specialized in evaluation and certification of packaging suppliers, has gradually been recognized by more and more people in the industry.

For printing enterprises, through GMI certification, in addition to obtaining orders from large foreign packaging and printing materials purchasers who have cooperative relations with GMI, they can also reduce the loss of printing materials within the enterprise, reduce costs, improve the ability of production personnel and product quality with the help of the standardized processes required by GMI. In this process, they can make all processes and equipment status transparent, promote equipment maintenance, and improve productivity. However, in the actual printing production process, printing enterprises often encounter problems such as the product quality is difficult to reach the standard and the test score is difficult to pass due to various problems.

　　

 

Overview of GMI certification

GMI is the abbreviation of Graphic Measures International. It is a professional organization designated by Target, BestBuy and other companies to evaluate packaging suppliers and continuously measure packaging samples. GMI certification is responsible for establishing and operating a professional website, saving all packaging data, and providing reports to Target, product suppliers and certified packaging suppliers through relevant paths. All businesses are committed to global packaging quality services, providing quality services for global packaging quality management and printing plant monitoring.

We can see from the GMI website that GMI has built a new comprehensive business platform connecting private brand manufacturers, product suppliers and GMI certified packaging suppliers, and integrates trade, quality management and data management. Through this platform:

 

Packaging supplier Packaging supplier	• Maximize your certification for more business opportunities • Contact new markets through new platforms, know new customers and expand new businesses • Demonstrate production quality intuitively through scientific quality supervision system to gain long-term trust of customers
Private brand suppliers	• Quickly find certified packaging suppliers worldwide • No upfront project development costs • Long term effective monitoring of product quality of packers • Spot check of products on shelves • Real time data analysis
Product supplier	• Access to more private brand manufacturers • Quickly find certified packaging suppliers worldwide • The contact information is confidential, and the selected packaging supplier can be inquired from one side • The website homepage shows the production capacity of private brand manufacturers

 

GMI's main cooperative customers are (still increasing):

GMI has in-depth cooperation with some large retailers in the world, such as Target (supermarket chain), BestBuy (electronics giant chain) Group, JCPenney (Jessie Penney, clothing chain), Lowes (Lloyd's Decorative Materials Chain) and other groups have successively entrusted GMI to put forward certification requirements for its packaging suppliers, and GMI will tailor its clothing accordingly, According to the requirements of product characteristics of packaging buyers, provide them with customized certification specifications.

　　

 

The value of GMI certification to packaging suppliers

GMI certification is a certification focusing on process control. It puts forward corresponding requirements for prepress, plate making, printing and post press processing. Printing and packaging enterprises can pass the GMI certification. On the one hand, they can gain more business opportunities, on the other hand, they can improve their software and hardware strength in an all-round way. Specifically:

Get more orders from large foreign packaging and printing purchasers who have cooperative relations with GMI;

Reduce unnecessary loss of printing materials and reduce production costs;

Improve the ability of operators and the quality of products;

Grasp the important factors affecting the printing quality and the corresponding standards, so as to make the production highly transparent;

Obtain real-time information on the quality of various processes and the status of printing machines, measuring instruments, printing consumables, etc;

Avoid excessive loss of machinery and equipment, resulting in irreparable loss;

Greatly reduce the time and energy required to deal with various problems caused by non-standard operation

 

Scope of GMI Packaging Capability Certification

The GMI packaging capability certification project includes the following three stages in total:

Phase I: Self assessment

Best Buy has very clear requirements for the basic production equipment and processing capacity required by qualified packaging suppliers. Only when the basic requirements are met, can we formally start the process of packaging capacity certification.

Stage 2: Print test samples

If your factory meets the basic requirements of Best Buy in the first stage of self-assessment, GMI will send the printing test sample to your company. Please adjust the printing machine to the best condition and then print the test sample. GMI will judge the printing machine condition and production process control ability of your factory according to the results of printing test samples.

Stage 3: On site assessment

GMI will contact your factory within a period of time after receiving the printing test samples, and will assist in arranging the date of on-site evaluation. The on-site evaluation will take a whole day. GMI's certifiers will visit your factory on the same day and actually test your factory's production capacity and make a careful and prudent evaluation on whether you can produce high-quality and stable printed packaging products. At the same time, they will also make a measurement and scoring action on the printed test samples on the same day.

　　

 

GMI certification process

GMI certification is actually the assessment and certification of packaging suppliers. The GMI certification process is as follows:

1. The packaging supplier must submit the completed self-assessment form to GMI. The self-assessment form is designed to minimize the opportunities for unqualified suppliers to conduct certification.

2. GMI will review the completed self-assessment form.

3. Arrange on-site evaluation. The packaging supplier must visit the targetpackagingprogram and download the test page file.

4. The packaging supplier must print the test documents and prepare them for inspection by the consultant of GMI Company on site.

5. GMI Company will conduct on-site evaluation, focusing on four packaging production categories: pre press, plate making, printing and post press. Each production category is further divided into many subcategories, which will be measured according to five criteria: procedure documents, maintenance, operation capability, equipment performance and training. Each standard shall be scored from zero to three (0~3), where zero means completely qualified, one means small defect, two means major defect, and three means extremely serious defect.

6. The GMI certification company will use the on-site evaluation form of packaging suppliers to record the results.

7. According to the data input by the GMI certification company, the on-site evaluation form will generate a score.

GMI certification audit process

Step 1: Conduct self-assessment before GMI certification on the official website of GMI

The contents of self-assessment mainly include: minimum production equipment configuration, minimum inspection equipment configuration, business scope and capability, planning and execution capability, pre press software and equipment details, raw material management, printing equipment details, post press process details, quality inspection capability, and safety requirements

Step 2: After meeting the minimum requirements of self-assessment, apply for GMI certification and pay the audit fee.

Step 3: Print the printed sheet provided by GMI to meet the minimum score requirements, and review whether the relevant data of the printed sheet to be measured on the day meets the minimum score requirements

Step 4: Prepare relevant documents for prepress, printing, post-processing and quality inspection according to GMI standards, and train relevant personnel.

Step 5: Welcome the on-site audit of GMI

1. Evaluate whether the printed sheet meets the minimum score requirements.

2. Verify whether prepress, printing, post processing and quality inspection documents are prepared in detail and whether records are filled in accurately.

3. Go to the site to see whether the operators operate according to the document requirements and whether they are skilled.

Step 6: The final meeting will announce the audit results.

Through the GMI certification, it marks the qualification and ability of large foreign packaging and printing purchasers who have cooperative relations with GMI in production and processing. At the same time, with the help of the standardized process required by GMI, we can continue to optimize the raw material consumption, equipment maintenance, operation specifications, improve the ability of production personnel and product quality, and enhance the comprehensive strength of the enterprise.