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P ackaging is one of the fastest growing segments of the printing industry. So, even if printed material in the form of newspapers, periodicals and books is decreasing moderately, the size of packaging market is growing

phenomenally. This is due to myriad reasons. The purchasing power of middle-class segment is growing. The food industry is getting organised, with many players venturing into packed food segment. Besides, the online retail stores have opened up new avenues for packaging. Each product sold at these retail outlets has not just the original packaging but also an outer packaging, which has to endure the wear and tear of transport and in case, the product is returned, it has to be strong enough to reach the sender.

All forms of packaging – flexible, container, tetrapack, corrugated, etc are growing. Hence, a lot of offset printers are now venturing into packaging and there has been substantial investment in this field. On the other hand, many new machines are now available in this segment, with automated processes and stringent quality measures.

This has also opened up new avenues for security printing as organised players look for security features in their packaging. The recent PackPlus exhibition and conclave in New Delhi focused on the future of packaging. And another show Pack Print International in Bangkok is just on the cards.

But, this is not all…there was a recent report in US, which says that print is going to make a comeback in a big way. People have realised the power of print as this is something which is tangible and can be passed from one hand to another. Gone are the days when we received printed New Year greetings, which sat pretty on our desks for months on end. That personal touch is missing. Online greetings can never get this kind of admiration as compared to a printed product.

The industry thus seems to be rejuvenating. It is time to understand your core competencies and focus on the same.

The print is here to stay and the world will continue to love print.

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EDITORIALLong live the print and love towards this! ............................................................................03

AWARDSPrinting Industries of America announces 2015 Intertech Technology Awards .....................................................................................06

TOUch ThE FUTUREBrand new perspectives in packaging print ..........................................................................08

ANNEXManroland web systems comes up with solution to save printed books ..................................12

KNOWLEDGE ShARINGPackaging printing seminars in Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore ...................................................14

WIDE FORMATGreen technologies focused at Media Expo 2015 ................................................................16

PAcKAGING/FINIShINGPackPlus 2015 records a good show! ................................................................................18

Esko’s packaging software and Kongsberg V20 sample maker at Label Kingdom, Chennai ................................................................................................21

HP accelerates productivity for sign & display print providers and corrugated converters ........................................................................................................23

3D packaging design & proofreading solutions at Labelexpo 2015 .......................................23

An innovation for the flexible packaging industry! ................................................................24

SYNCHROLINE – a game changer for packaging ...............................................................26

Bobst Italia highlights gravure and lamination technologies .................................................26

Fifteen Esko software installed at GIPT, Mumbai ...............................................................27

VINSAK, signs strategic association with Iwasaki International Inc .....................................30

International Packtech India, Mumbai ................................................................................30

SKILL DEVELOPMENTKurukshetra University as a breeding ground of printing professionals ..................................32

OBITUARYIndia mourns the loss of visionary Dr APJ Abdul Kalam ......................................................33

BOOK PRINTINGPartners to publishers! .......................................................................................................34

PERSONALITYRB Kashyap, unit head, Thomson Press ...............................................................................35

VARIABLE DATA & DIGITAL PRINTING ....................................................................37

NEWS & AcTIVITIES ...................................................................................................42

EXhIBITIONS AROUND ThE WORLD .........................................................................54

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Buying of FT Group by Nikkei Inc of Japan reconfirms the importance of print

Launching of television channels to homes through

IP network in India

Newer full coach wraps opportunities being offered

by railways for PSPs

Flexible learning on the rise by e-marketplace

Mohalla Sabhas on the rise in today’s political scenario

continously increasing unhealthy price war

in the industry

Ignoring safety measures by printers specifically

related to fire

Printers indulging in producing pirated books

or other products

Non focussing at automation in post press operations by

majority loosing out to china

Vyapam links like episodes

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Printing Industries of America has announced the recipients of the 2015 InterTech Technology

Awards. An independent panel of judges deliberated over an outstanding selection of technology nominations which highlighted the dynamic nature of the industry. This year’s InterTech Technology Awards show great developments in high speed web and sheetfed colour inkjet presses, digital finishing equipment, the use of metallic foil, patterning for optimal flexo ink laydown, and a portable spectrophotometer for use in the pressroom. Also honored were solutions that facilitate cross-media marketing campaigns, use a new standard to define and communicate brand colours, and simplify the integration of production and business processes. The ten technologies selected to receive the 2015 InterTech Technology Awards are:

Océ VarioPrint i300 from Canon USA, Inc: The Océ VarioPrint i300 is a colour sheetfed inkjet press that bridges the gap between the flexibility and efficiency of toner-

based sheetfed presses and the economy and productivity of web-fed inkjet systems. It can cost effectively run both monochrome and colour jobs up to a B3 format at a top speed of 294 letter images per minute. Its print heads produce 600 x 600 dpi, achieving a perceived 1200 dpi with drop size modulation. The judges singled out the Océ VarioPrint i300 as a technology that will have a significant impact on the industry by opening up inkjet to the cut sheet market.

ORIS CxF from CGS Publishing Technologies International LLC:

ORIS CxF is one of the first commercial implementations of the ISO standard that established the Color Data Exchange Format (CxF/X) for spot colour characterisation data. After measurements are taken of a brand

colour, users can convert the data to CxF/X4 data, and then export it to a PDF/X file, tagging it with colour definitions and sequence instructions. The ORIS CxF

Printing industries of AmericA Announces 2015 intertech technology AwArdsThe technologies receiving 2015 Intertech Technology Awards have been judged as truly innovative and are expected to advance the performance of the graphic communications industry.

technology is used to control and verify compliance with the colour throughout the supply chain—from brand owners to packaging designers. Judges praised its standards-based and non-proprietary nature as well as its ability to communicate colour precisely between multiple graphic service providers.

EFI DirectSmile Cross Media from Electronics for Imaging, Inc: EFI DirectSmile Cross Media is a solution to the growing demand for effective cross-

media communications. It is a fully featured solution that automates the process of executing cross-media campaigns, including sending out mass and individually triggered emails and messages, pushing messages to social media, personalising print communications, and tracking results. EFI has also streamlined the integration with third-party CRM solutions such as Salesforce.com. One judge commented, “For years printers have been removed from marketing campaign conversations. DirectSmile credentials them in a way that goes beyond the trade and repositions them as valuable partners.”

Automation Engine Connect from Esko: The complex task of getting third-party software (MIS, shipping, Web storefronts, finance, etc.) to automatically and correctly exchange information with

production systems just became easier with Automation Engine Connect. It allows all order information – for example, pricing, quantities, production-related info, and costing – to move to and from systems through the Esko interface. One judge commented, “Integrating the prepress workflow with internal and external business systems enables packaging artwork to be delivered just in time. Esko’s solution lowers the IT hurdle to make different systems communicate with automation engine.”

Prinect Media Manager from Heidelberg:Heidelberg’s Prinect Media Manager is a browser-based, multi-channel media publishing tool that merges content creation, project m a n a g e m e n t , databasing, and e - c o m m e r c e , helping to keep marketing messages consistent and timely across all channels. The clever “mind-mapping” interface coordinates the work of everyone connected with a particular job. Media data is stored in a central database, linked logically, managed centrally, and made available to all applications. The judges admired the proactive manner in which resources and content were managed, recognising that technologies like these help printing companies transform themselves from conventional service providers into partners able to manage content for their customers’ communication needs.

Highcon Euclid Digital Finishing Technology from Highcon Systems Ltd: Highcon’s Digital Finishing Technology brings the advantages of digital technology to

creasing and cutting papers, labels, folding cartons,

and microflute. Creasing is carried out

by Highcon’s Digital Adhesive Rule Technology (DART). Data is sent to the DART canister, which releases resin in the form of rules that, once cured, produce hard

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raised lines. Cutting, perforation, or etching is done by an array of high-powered CO2 lasers. The Euclid technology handles up to 1,500 B1-sized sheets per hour. The judges noted that the dramatic improvement in turnaround time for small to medium converting runs could be enough by itself to justify the technology’s use.

KODAK PROSPER 6000 Presses from Kodak: The KODAK PROSPER 6000 Presses use Kodak’s continuous

whites, enhance overprints and reverse print, achieve better spot colour printing, and deliver smooth highlight transitions. One aspect of the technology pairs precisely imaged plate surface patterns with anilox volume to improve ink transfer and enables greater colour density and opacity with a lower volume of ink. The technology further raises the print quality of flexo, noted the judges, giving printers the ability to compete with the best that gravure printing has to offer.

MGI iFOIL from MGI Digital Technology:The MGI iFOIL is an in-line complement to the company’s JETvarnish 3D UV spot coater (a previous InterTech Award recipient). With an innovative digital process, iFOIL makes embossing and hot foiling easy, requiring no plates, no dies, and no makeready. This allows users to

produce hot foil stamping and embossing jobs from one to thousands of sheets on the fly. The iFOIL can utilise many different types of available market foils in a variety of colours, metallic tones, reflective patterns, and holographic effects. One judge said, “The digital era in package converting has started, and the benefits of iFOIL are clearly apparent.”

X-Rite eXact with Scan Option from X-Rite: The handheld X-Rite eXact spectrophotometer with Scan Option enables printers and packaging converters to control, manage, and communicate colour across the entire colour workflow. The inventive Scan Option lets users rapidly scan colour patches without the use of a track, especially beneficial in packaging work where colour

targets can be hard to access. “The ability to scan multiple colour bars in one pass is an incredible advantage,” said a judge. eXact also supports all measurements specified in the latest ISO standards, allowing for predictable results when optical brightening agents and fluorescent materials are involved.The InterTech stars, recognised as a symbol of technological innovation and excellence, will be presented before an audience of industry leaders during the 2015 Printing Industries of America Premier Print Awards Gala Featuring the InterTech Technology Awards and the Product of Excellence Awards on September 13 in Chicago, Illinois.

This year’s InterTech Technology Awards show great developments in high speed web and sheetfed colour inkjet presses, digital finishing equipment, the use of metallic foil, patterning for optimal flexo ink laydown, and a portable spectrophotometer for use in the pressroom. Also honored were solutions that facilitate cross-media marketing campaigns, use a new standard to define and communicate brand colours, and simplify the integration of production and business processes.

inkjet technology to produce high quality commercial print products at speeds up to 1,000 feet per minute. New driers, interstation drying, and nano-technology ink let the presses overcome a key inkjet limitation—the ability to print glossy and other coated stock with heavy coverage at fast speeds. Equally innovative is Kodak’s Intelligent Print System that monitors thousands of inputs and adjusts on the fly to maintain registration and colour quality. One judge summed up the panel’s reaction, “The speed and quality are impressive, and the coated samples really got our attention.”

NX advantage, KODAK FLEXCEL NX System from Kodak: The NX advantage feature set for the KODAK FLEXCEL NX

S y s t e m comprises a set of new a d v a n c e d imaging and s c r e e n i n g features that enable flexo printers to print more o p a q u e

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Brand new perspectives in packaging print

Thanks to impressive print packaging, brands can seduce customers into a change of purchasing vote at the

point of purchase, says Superbrands founder Marcel Knobil. “We would end up with less brand and more bland were it not for the attention that the packaging attracts.” Superbrands is acclaimed worldwide as being an independent authority and arbiter of branding excellence, committed to paying tribute to exceptional brands and promoting the discipline of branding.The impact of a winning combination of text and graphics extends way beyond fronting up that initial beauty parade. As well as being the ‘eye candy’ that hooks the consumer in the first instance, a perfectly reproduced external image provides consumers with an often subliminal product recognition and reassurance that can be the brand owner’s banker in a congested retail space. Today’s packaging trends are driven by longer supermarket opening hours, continually enhanced print technologies and capabilities and demand to protect brands and increase recognition. Not only surviving but attaining the status as the preferred choice under such highly testing conditions is one half of the brand owner’s greatest challenge. The other is to meet it at an affordable cost.

controlling qualityWith the high probability of colour variations occurring not only between different substrates, but also print processes - and indeed from one printer to another, not

as it has control over the pre-determined colour parameters, these are then stored in the cloud for use as and when required by his supply chain. This ensures accurate replications of the accredited brand image

irrespective of substrate or supplier.

pressed to performConverters equipped with smarter production facilities can be more directly instrumental in achieving cost and performance benefits to brand owners. Using high-definition flexo plate and software technologies, it is now possible to meet the requirements of 85 percent

of current flexo-printed, flexible packaging without detriment to the finished result from CMYK + white rather than using special inks.“Working out of a reduced colour palette means there are less plates and less waste ink. It ticks a lot of boxes,” says Chris Tonge, sales director, Ultimate Packaging (UK). “Whilst global players like Unilever and P&G have been specifying these solutions for the past 10 to 15 years, smaller brands are realising there is a cost advantage in that you can control the colours a lot better if you set the right standards.”It’s not just improvement at the front-end that is raising quality and performance standards in flexo, still the sector’s most widely used print process accounting for over 40 percent of a current global printed packaging market worth around an estimated €250 bn per annum, particularly for flexibles and corrugated board applications. Speed on the press and consistency across substrates are key. Ultimate Packaging has recently installed two additional servo-driven Bobst flexo presses ahead of drupa. Offset has also responded positively to deliver

Looks count and first impressions matter. How products are judged by their many differing attributes - not least fitness for purpose, consistent reliability and value for money - will determine the extent to which they build market share on an ongoing basis. prior to that, however, it will probably be a particular spot colour, a distinctive font, or else the artful application of a metallic ink on the exterior of the pack that initiates the relationship between a brand and a consumer. Des king discusses the brand new perspectives in packaging.

only in different locations but even when they are running presses made by the same manufacturer - maintaining consistency can be a complex undertaking. The best way to meet it is to ensure that all the contributory links within the supply chain which are engaged in steering the progress of a printed pack from hatch to despatch are all able to interact via an open entry web-based platform.

“Our vision is to connect the supply chain from the brand owner to the retailer and to make that flow broader and richer,” says Jef Stoffels, Esko marketing director.

“We do this by adding greater functionality which meets the go-to-market and quality needs of CPG (consumer packaged goods) businesses and retailers. We also make it possible for the brand owner to ensure that the flow of data is secure and transparent, mistakes and errors can be picked up early or avoided altogether and the net result is to get products to market faster.”Similarly web-based colour management systems can extend the same degree of comfort and control to brand owners over how pre-determined colour parameters are then replicated accurately irrespective of substrate or supplier, ensuring a guaranteed consistency of colour reproduction that underpins brand authenticity and integrity. The X-Rite PantoneLIVE colour management solution is ideal for the brand owner

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cost-efficient shorter run-lengths, for example Heidelberg’s Speedmaster Prinect Inpress Control inline automated turbo charged system which can change plates between jobs within ten minutes.

Digital mindsetWhat has sparked these improvements in analogue press technology is the increasingly potent challenge posed by digital print; not least in meeting brand owner requirements for cost-efficient shorter run lengths – and thereby, lower inventory levels – and the ability to differentiate products on-shelf through customisation. Whilst affordably utilising variable data has always been part and parcel of the digital print proposition, it’s now clearly on the retail marketing radar following its successful adoption by high-profile retail marketing campaigns run by Coca Cola, Heineken, Nutella and a steadily growing band of global blue-chip brands. “To take our brand off the packaging and replace it with something other than the Coca Cola script wasn’t easy to do within a structure like ours, where we operate according to very tight brand guidelines to protecting it,” says Greg Bentley, packaging innovator, Coca Cola. “The digital print capability enabled it to happen, but the marketing campaign is the really smart thing.”

“The combination of technological muscle and marketing inspiration is what it takes to make customisation fly,” says Paul Randall, brands business development manager, HP Worldwide.

“It’s breaking away from the mindset of packaging being the static bearer of logos and ingredients tables and using it as a media opportunity for consumer engagement to the benefit of the brand. The media landscape has changed. It is becoming increasingly fragmented between above the line spend (bought media), PR and below the line (earned media), and packaging (owned media) – with the latter two increasingly linked together. Not surprisingly, brand owners are now regular visitors to HP’s Graphics Experience Centre in Barcelona.” Likewise Xeikon’s technology centre in Antwerp. “For brand owners attending our Xeikon Café programme, it’s a two-track learning curve,” says Filip Weymans, marketing director, Labels & Packaging. “First, understanding how the benefits of digital production can be translated into diversifying communication towards the audience they’re reaching out to and second, how the technology can address needs within their business model - notably, being faster to market and making better use of working capital.” “While the adoption of digital is an accelerating trend, despite the buzz being created it’s still under-selling its potential,” says Doug Hutt, global packaging manager, SAB Miller. “The top ten brand owners in the world are generating over a quarter of a trillion dollars in sales. If just 10 - 20 percent of these were digitised with the balance going to analogue, that is still a very large potential revenue that converters haven’t yet grasped.”

“FMCG companies should be more proactive in going out and talking to the packaging industry – and the packaging industry should be addressing those issues and coming up with solutions,” says Doug Hutt, SAB Miller global packaging manager.

Meanwhile, faster-running inkjet technology looks poised to dictate the next chapter in the digital packaging print story, not least via the keenly anticipated commercialisation of digital guru Benny Landa’s ‘nanographic’ presses engineered to deliver variable data printed material at offset speeds.

The finishing touchCustomisation is not the only route to catching the consumer’s eye on-shelf. Short-run, cost-effective special effects such as high gloss, glitter, metallic w i t h o u t r e c o u r s e to hot-foil stamping and even Braille are also within the remit of next-generation d i g i t a l p o s t - p r e s s e n h a n c e m e n t technology now e s t a b l i s h i n g itself within the finishing sector. Also providing a more cost-effective means of achieving greater stand-out is the take-up of cold foiling using the analogue process - notably as an alternative to laminated / metallised substrates for labels and cartons.Meanwhile, at the higher end of the scale is the arresting 3D effect achieved through the use of Fresnel lens technology providing instant ‘stand-out’ in retail duty-free for cartons containing the global gin brand Bombay Sapphire.

“It’s obviously more expensive than a normal foil by about one-third, but you do get significantly greater impact. If you want something that is undeniably eye-catching and alluring then that’s what it takes,” says Dominic Burke, managing director, Webb deVlam UK.

The new frontier “The adoption of online-oriented technologies is pointing the way towards next generation applications aimed at facilitating greater engagement between brand and consumer,” says Sun Branding Solutions Packaging Technology director, Gillian Garside-Wight. “Who would have thought that the Apple watch would be available five years ago? Brand owners need to deliver what consumers want including smarter packs that integrate with a digitally driven smarter life-style.” Quite a number of applications on the market bring into play mobile technology. For example, on-pack augmented reality (AR) applications pioneered by Blippar

that allow users to simply look at an object through the camera on their smartphone to activate an instantaneous digital search and draw down information from the web. In a recent campaign for Perrier, the invitation to consumers to shake their phone like a cocktail shaker to reveal a recipe was a typically innovative way to highlight the overall concept and add fun by using the technology to unique advantage.Rather than position an icon on-pack to facilitate interaction, UK-based prepress specialist Reproflex3’s proprietary ‘PackLinc’ scanning technology embeds a hidden code within the ink itself, enabling the consumer to effectively treat the entire pack as a portal. Most recently applied within a limited edition run of the children’s POM-BEAR crisp packet, the system was the recipient of EFIA (European Flexographic Industry Association) and the prestigious Starpack gold awards last year. Debbie Waldron-Hoines, EFIA director says, “Brand owners need a deeper understanding of the processes so that they can help make considered decisions on what is best suited for their brand. Both flexo and digital can work wonderfully together to enhance the brand.” Underpinning product security and thereby underpinning brand integrity is another obvious avenue being explored by smart technologies. A fully printed near-field communication sensor tag (NFC) developed by Thin Film Electronics for Diageo’s Johnnie Walker whisky doubles as a security and anti-counterfeiting device as well as interacting with smartphones to dispense product advice and information.As a lot of the labelling and pre-printed information currently required to be displayed on-pack is gradually phased out, just imagine the potential for branding

afforded by that freed-up real estate. Brands are currently getting maybe only 40 percent of the pack’s surface for its primary purpose. However, if one small interactive barcode resolves all the regulatory and legal requirements 90 percent of the print surface could be released for marketing the product.“Ironically, the most practical bridge linking brand and consumer might simply entail upgrading the humble linear barcode into a 2D format,” says Domino Printing Sciences global account manager, Craig Stobie. “Brand owners are yet to fully realise the potential in having a machine-readable code that not only contains a lot more data but with the same footprint or smaller than a human-readable, but can also actually be cheaper.”

Print & Publishing Aug-Sep 2015 Career“Whether it be products that communicate with your tablet or temperature or time sensitive thermochromic inks that indicate when your lager is perfectly chilled or provide the re-assurance that pre-packaged meat is safe to eat, the facility for interactivity ticks all the right boxes for forward-looking brand owners,” says Eef de Ferrante, managing director of the Active & Intelligent Packaging Industry Association (AIPIA).

“Brand owners need to meet the challenges faced by counterfeiting, product security in the supply chain, consumer engagement and ‘Big Data’ management. Brand protection and better marketing of their products are major starting points towards averting potential reputational damage and simply saving money.”Eye-catching and innovative printed packaging is a shrewd investment towards building a loyal and enduring customer-base, concludes Des King. Whilst consumers are exercising greater versatility than ever before in choosing how and where they are able to gather information through which to determine product preferences, packaging offers the brand owner a uniquely guaranteed opportunity to control how they communicate with prospective customers face to face in-store at the very point of purchase. No surprise then that the ways in which the package is printed will occupy centre-stage at drupa 2016.

What to expect at drupa?Printed packaging is the key mechanism enabling brand owners to build expanding and

enduring customer loyalty in order to out-sell and out-perform their competition. Changing patterns of communication have elevated the role of packaging from protective wrapper to front-line sales & marketing tool. In a media-neutral environment it’s a function that is increasingly

as much marketing as technology, and that provides the brand owner with guaranteed profiling and exposure in front of the consumer.In order to optimise consumer response at the point of sale, brand owners will want to invest not only in imaginative, innovative and well-executed creative design in order to achieve distinction and differentiation, but also in the appropriate colour management technologies to ensure its accurate replication irrespective of substrate or geographical

location. The latest developments in web-based workflow platforms and systems that link all components within the packaging print supply chain will be on show at drupa 2016.Whilst a consistently reproduced and instantly recognisable image is vital in underpinning authenticity, brand owners are increasingly required to be able to demonstrate rapid response agility in order to maintain competitive edge via updated printed messaging and as these tactics are often short-term and invariably short-run, as cost-effectively as possible. The same level of expediency applies to the introduction of brand extensions and new products. Enhanced analogue process print and next-generation digital equipment designed to deliver accelerated cost-effective time to market will compete for attention at drupa 2016. Special decorative effects and added functionality are increasingly providing an added value finishing touch that can extend beyond the point of purchase to enhance the consumer’s relationship with the branding proposition throughout its life expectancy. The appropriate systems and solutions to accomplish all of these imperatives are not only readily available to print service providers but are constantly updated and extended. Applications to facilitate the synergy between printed text and graphics, the internet and social media through the development of on-pack interactivity accessed by smart mobile technology will constitute a growing area of visitor interest in Düsseldorf.

Visitors to drupa 2016 (the world's leading trade fair for print and cross-media solutions, May 31 – Jun 10, 2016, Germany) will experience

an exciting new approach to innovation in print when they stop by the drupa cube. This special conference and event programme will feature a wide range of applications for printed products in numerous industries and areas of life. “New technologies like printed electronics and 3D printing, creative multichannel applications and the use of digital printing techniques in packaging and other sectors continue to illustrate the amazing potential of print,” says Sabine Geldermann, director of drupa, adding, “This potential is the focus of drupa cube, with its international conference and event programme. Through an interdisciplinary approach, it is also designed to bridge the knowledge gap about the relevancy and functionality of print that often exists between printing professionals and their creative agency, marketing, and brand owner clients across a variety of vertical markets.”In contrast to the first two cube conferences in 2008 and 2012, the 11-day programme will not be organised by target group but rather, based on six key drupa 2016 themes: Multichannel, Print, Functional Printing, 3D Printing, Package Production and Green Printing. Each presentation slot will combine various themes using best practise case studies: Functional printing and packaging printing, 3D printing and sustainability, and multichannel including print are some of the combinations being explored. This encourages

thinking beyond supposedly fixed boundaries. This outside-the-box principle opens up new possibilities for visitors and broadens the horizon for the future of print. Through its range of themes and its interdisciplinary concept, drupa cube is, for the first time, also addressing selected vertical markets including the food, consumer goods, interior design, cosmetics,

pharmaceutical and healthcare industries; and the financial and public sectors. “In this way, we aim to attract new visitor groups to drupa and inspire them with the possibilities of print,” adds Geldermann.The strategic and creative design of the programme and its implementation were handled by brand experience agency FreemanXP, a division of Freeman, the world’s largest event company. “I am confident that in FreemanXP we have the perfect partner at our side.” Geldermann says. “Thanks to projects they have accomplished for global players like EFI, HP and the US trade fair Graph Expo, FreemanXP has the necessary industry experience. Not only that, but FreemanXP has already worked for countless international brands in other industry segments, so it also brings to the table a vast amount of expertise and inspiration from outside the print industry.” Jordan Waid, vice-president, brand experience, at FreemanXP, adds, “Co-creation is the future and our new intersectional approach to the cube at drupa creates a collaboration hub for all facets of the print industry to design a new future for content creation.”

drupa cube: innovative conference programme at drupa 2016Bridging the gap between print professionals and their creative agency, marketing and brand owner clients across a variety of vertical markets.

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Organised by Interquest, a market research firm specialised in the global printing industry, the 2015

London Digital Book Printing Forum presented the results of market analysis from previous years that show how the market opinion changes. In this, manroland web systems joined the discussion, leveraging on making printed book fit for the future. The company showed how to provide the most efficient and cost-effective technology in the book printing segment. As manroland web systems emerged as a top supplier of technologies in digital book production over the last few years, the company added its knowledge to the discussions that revolved around the main topic: ‘How to make the printed book more attractive to the customers in times of e-readers and tablets?’

At the recent 2015 London Digital Book Printing Forum, manroland web systems talked of its digital finishing solution being developed to save printed books in future. The select audience attending the forum consisted of those having stakes in the development of digital book production – from reputed global publishers, self-publishers, printing companies and suppliers to the printing and publishing industries.

Printed books on riseThe result of the market research at the 2015 London Digital Book Printing Forum showed that the rate of book production in the UK is currently 13 percent of the total, which is an increase of 8 percent against the data in 2012. According to Interquest,

the market perception is that the rate will rise to 18–20 percent by 2018. In a similar wave, the current book production in the US has even increased

by 4.6 percent and bookshops have seen a recovery. Contrarily, the sales of tablets and e-readers have slowed or stagnated. A good number of digital book printers have emerged over the last few years, which is indeed a drift driven by the immense progression in digital book printing technologies, productivity and quality.

FormerLine advantagesSpecially designed to meet the requirements and intended book production on an industrial scale, manroland web systems’ FormerLine is featured with continuously flexible cut-off technology capable to handle from 145 mm to 420 mm. Together with the lift collator RS 34 from RIMA, the system produces stapled signatures or up to 8,000 glued and stapled book blocks per hour with up to 70 mm

Manroland web systeMs coMes up with solution to save printed books

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Book Printing Forum showed that there are several parameters that drive the industry today. Despite the slowdown in the growth of e-books, book printers care about supply chain management—publishers want printers to be able to produce a ‘book of one’ print on demand (POD) or any number of books in a timely and cost-effective manner as an individual edition or in batched production using highly automated web-based job entries. These in forms of case studies were nicely presented by a number of European printers, presenting workflow and printing systems to the

audience, during the forum. Publishers and printers try more and more to avoid holding stock and are moving to ‘auto stock replenishment’ business models reducing inventory and cost of stock handling. The batch-production of FormerLine exactly fulfils these requirements of the industrial digital production. As there is also growing need for adding values to printed books, digital printing brings a gamut of additional enhancers, such as personalisation, augmented reality, RFID chip insertion, inclusion of electronics within books, etc.

Wider prospectsAll in all, the mood at 2015 London Digital Book Printing Forum was very positive about the future of printed books. Well, the e-book has found a place in the market, but is not going to replace the physical books anytime soon. The challenges for book printers are to be able to supply a single book or several thousand books very quickly and to be able to distribute efficiently to end users or readers. Publishers and authors are in pursuit of multi-media, multi-channel solutions with no inventory and efficient supply chain from a single book upwards. That is where manroland web systems can help by supplying and constantly developing best possible solution for the digital book printing.

magnitude in a highly efficient way and with great performance.According to the required format and pagination of the signature, the customer can choose the relevant web lead over the formers. The strongest point of the FormerLine concept is to produce different formats and paper qualities in so called ‘batches’ which can consist of different books with different page numbers. Even each individual book can have a different pagination. In keeping with the preferences of the market, FormerLine is fast, flexible and productive. The FormerLine runs with a web speed of up to 300 m/min. The combination of a variable cut-off, a maximum web width of 1,067 mm (model with three formers) and a production speed of up to 300 m/min shows one of the best performing digital printing systems for book production in the current market. The high efficiency of the press is explained by its minimal makeready times, format changes, reel changes and industrial maintenance concepts, among other added features.

More successNew technology like FormerLine means more success as this machine helps printers to constantly meet the market requirements. The discussion at 2015 London Digital

Print & Publishing Aug-Sep 2015 Knowledge Sharing

The first of the Heidelberg India’s Print, Pack, Fold seminars was held in New

Delhi on July 20, and the sessions were successfully repeated in Mumbai and Bangalore, on July 22 and July 24, respectively. The event witnessed enthusiastic participation from the printing fraternity across India, The speakers focused on productivity & quality control, Packaging printing solutions, UV solutions and pharma folding.Peter Rego, general manager - sales, Heidelberg India, set the ball rolling with stunning statistics on the Indian printing industry and outlined Heidelberg’s growing market share in the Indian market.Ashokan Krishnamoorthy, deputy general manager – Prepress solutions, Heidelberg India, and Udo Fiebiger, regional business manager, sheetfed solutions, Heidelberg Asia Pacific, kick-started the presentation in all three locations. The duo touched on a diverse array of topics including Print shop management, prepress and digital print workflow, make-ready optimization, colour, quality, machine operation and a

full range of services using Prinect.Mark Christian Hogan, global sales head – postpress solutions, Heidelberg, announced that Heidelberg’s joint venture with China’s MK Masterwork Machinery would focus on the R&D and production of die cutters and folder gluers such as the Promatrix 106 CS and the Diana. “Heidelberg will provide the sales, service and spare parts logistics for these machines worldwide,” he stated, before adding that the new Promatrix and Diana Folding carton gluing machines that Heidelberg would be selling in

Team Heidelberg interacting with audience in Q&A session.

One of the presentations in progress and attendees listening to with pin drop silence

An array of printed products produced with value additions

Packaging Printing seminars in Delhi, mumbai, bangaloreHeidelberg India, with a significant presence in the packaging printing segment, organized a knowledge-sharing seminar titled “Print, Pack, Fold”, in New Delhi, Mumbai and Bangalore. The event also served as a platform to announce the tie-up between Heidelberg and China’s MK Masterwork Machinery.

Print & Publishing Aug-Sep 2015 Knowledge Sharing

Customised printed, die cut and value added product intelligently being utilised to create music

Heidelberg India also took the opportunity for honouring their select customers and presented the mementoes to them

India, would address quality and reliability requirements for short-to-medium runs in pharma folding, making life a lot easier for pharma converters.While, Michael Gao from MK Masterwork, China, delivered a presentation

presentation was followed by an open Q&A session to allow one-to-one interaction between printers and the speakers. On a fast-growth curve, packaging printing offers explosive market potential for new entrants. The seminars served to reinforce Heidelberg’s extensive experience and knowledge in packaging & UV, which is backed by the company’s installation of more than 400 printing units in the past 6 years.

on MK Masterwork and its wide range of packaging solutions. Thomas Gohl, sales manager for Asia Pacific, IST Metz, a leading UV supplier from Germany, discussed energy-saving benefits and other pros and cons of the three different types of UV technology -- UV LED, low energy UV, and full UV. In essence, Gohl emphasized on using the appropriate type of UV for each application with examples. Every

Print & Publishing Aug-Sep 2015 Wide Format

The 36th edition of Media Expo, organised by Messe Frankfurt Trade Fairs India, witnessed a good success in hosting showcases from both domestic and overseas players, showing an array of

indoor and outdoor advertising and signage solutions. Key crowd-pulling exhibitors at the show included Hewlett Packard (HP), FUJIFILM, AXYZ International, Monotech, Epson, Roland DG, Apsom Infotex, ColorJet, Caldron, NEGI Sign Systems & Supplies, Mimaki, JN Arora, Mono Sign Systems, Britomatics, Keith Electronics, Arrow Digital, to mention a few. The magnitude of overall showcases at Media Expo 2015 pivoted around ‘green’ printing, which stretched upon eco-friendly applications of textiles and others. Certainly, key showcases of machines and technologies from big industry players like FUJIFILM, Monotech, HP, excelled the show. And every single exhibitor was elated to the good footfalls during the three-day expo.

Green technoloGies focused at Media expo 2015A mix of 160 exhibitors presenting large-format printing, cutting and engraving machines as well as relative products, materials and services pulled up concurrently focusing on green technologies at the recently concluded Media Expo 2015 organised from July 24-26 at Pragati Maidan in New Delhi to update latest developments in the graphic art industry. Print & Publishing catches up with two prominent industry players.

fuJifilM brings suitable printer for indian market

The stand of FUJIFILM India thematically heralded ‘green’ as the next shift of innovations and big business gain. “UV

as eco-friendly technology is the bottom line of every equipment from FUJIFILM; our machines are durable, have no restriction on any media of even or uneven surface,” narrated SM R a m p r a s a d , assistant vice p r e s i d e n t , G r a p h i c s Art Division, FUJIFILM India Private Limited. Put up strikingly at the stand was a door printed on the company’s newly unpacked Equity EY, which could even penetrate into the engraved portions. Breaking the traditional notion of UV being highly costly, FUJIFILM brought Equity EY to the show—a new launch for the Indian market. “We already have Equity Advance, which is highly premium in terms of cost (Rs 1.4 crore); now, we introduce Equity EY at just Rs 85 lakh, suitably designed for our market. Mainly being a consumable company, our printers are just drivers and having understood this perspective, we bring our UV products to an affordable level,” said SM Ramprasad, adding, “The ink prices across our various models vary from Rs 8,000 to 12,000 per litre, which can be translated into Rs 12 per sq ft, which by far is most economical, so in that sense we are working more on cost effectiveness.” The company’s entry-level Equity LED 1600 hybrid printer on the showcase allows spot UV when it comes to printing greeting cards, wedding cards and the like.

Monotech unpacks four new pixeljet models and textiles printers next

Four new indigenously engineered PixelJet models from Monotech Systems unveiled at the expo, covering both eco-solvent and UV

domains. “In the eco-solvent domain, we have perceived the success of our five feet printer; but in response to the rapidly maturing market we introduce 10 ft Pixeljet ECO 3202,” mentions TP Jain, managing director, Monotech Systems Limited. Of the new attractions at the company’s stand was PixelJet Desktop UV printer designed for gifts, tabletop items. Textile domain is yet another area where the company is now focusing on for a bigger expansion. “Textile is our new exploration of what ‘inkjet’ technologies can do in the segment,” he says. At the expo, TP Jain confidently found the revival of the signage market.

Gurvinder Singh Wadhwa and TP Jain

SM Ramprasad

Print & Publishing Aug-Sep 2015 Packaging/Finishing

PackPlus 2015 records a good show!Packaging exhibition PackPlus 2015 was successfully held from July 30-August 2, 2015 at Pragati Maidan, New Delhi. A report.

PackPlus is one of the well-known packaging exhibitions in the country and there was record turnout in

its 2015 edition. By the time the four-day exhibition drew to a close on August 2, the busy staff at the thronging registration counters did hand out the 13,608th visitor’s badge. The portends were visible early as the pre-registrations on the website had outstripped all previous records by some margins.This show also set PackPlus firmly on the growth path. After the aborted attempt to create a new home for the event away from Pragati Maidan for three editions, the exhibition had returned to its traditional venue and instantly started to grow. This year’s edition was 30 percent larger than the previous year and the re-bookings point to a bumper event going forward.“The exhibitors signing up during the ongoing event itself with increased areas for next edition is an indication that we are heading towards a big growth,” said an elated Neetu Arora, director, Print-Packaging.com (P) Limited, the organisers of the event. She was also feeling overwhelmed with the

scores of congratulatory messages that poured in from satisfied exhibitors and trade visitors equally.The exhibitors had lined up an array of product launches and running machines. Several exhibitors reported sales during the exhibition itself while all others were inundated with enquiries. Gabbar Engineering Co, manufacturer of

President, vice president and general secretary Bawana Print & Pack Association (Delhi) promoting their memberships.

Team wrh global India, introducing new packaging solutions for first time in India.

Paper cup making machine on live display

industrial sewing machines was overwhelmed with the response and said perhaps they should have brought more number of machines for ‘onsite’ sale. One more sole exhibitor offering laser-cut dies Bhawani Graphics got over 500 enquiries from packaging printers during the show days of PackPlus. SK Maurya, manager sales & support –Expert Industries Pvt Ltd conveyed


as ‘overall good show.’The International Packaging Conclave conducted in an adjacent hall at the venue was in the meantime, exploring new terrain as it focused on the phenomenal growth of organised retail and e-commerce and its impact on packaging. It looked at the issues that affect packaging through the entire value chain in interactive sessions and deliberated on new materials, tools and systems that can help connect the dots in the entire process. The conclave featured over 15 thought leaders and experts in the field and 125 delegates from all over the

country. There were three sessions - Design & Structure of Packaging for Modern Retail & E-Commerce, Flexible Filling Systems & Automation, and Adaptive Supply Chains and Last Mile Connectivity.“This has been a tremendous experience for me to interact with a knowledgeable panel and a responsive audience,” said Venky Karuppanan of Teezle, who had flown in from New York to be part of the panel on ‘Adaptive Supply Chains and Last Mile Connectivity’.The next edition of the PackPlus will be held from July 27 – 30, 2016 at

Gautam Prabhu, business head – converting (Wide Web & Narrow Web), Reifenhauser (India) Marketing Limited with the laminator on display.


Label Kingdom, a specialist in the garment segment and supplies packaging materials to most

of the global brands in the garment and leather products industry in South India, recently opted for Esko’s software and also purchased the Esko Kongsberg V20 sample making table for cutting and creasing packaging prototypes. KV Prasad CEO of Label Kingdom says, “We strongly believe that the Esko’s solutions will help us produce high quality jobs and also improve our efficiency by identifying errors at a very early stage and avoid them as we design the packaging. This is because the tools which are part of the Esko solution follow standards prescribed by international bodies like ECMA. Also the tools help to complete the design activity at a faster rate than the usually used tools such as Adobe Illustrator or CorelDraw.” While, Srihari Rao, director sales for Esko India says, “Converters today are increasingly keen on the advantages of using Esko’s efficient software tools for prepress and the Esko Kongsberg sample making table for building quality, efficiency right into their processes from inception and avoiding errors in the entire production flow. As the industry matures, Esko is well positioned with software, hardware, services and know how to support the demand for tools that can offer cuttingedge creativity and innovation.”

Esko’s packaging softwarE and kongsbErg V20 samplE makEr at labEl kingdom, chEnnai


At FESPA 2015 (May 18-22, Germany), HP unveiled the HP Latex 3500 and 3100 printers, expanding its

proven HP Latex Technology portfolio, and grew its digital corrugated offering with the HP Scitex 17000 Corrugated Press. These new solutions help corrugated converters sign and display print service providers (PSPs) increase productivity and workflow efficiency. Ideal for standardised workflows, the new HP Latex 3500 Printer handles high-volume, dedicated application production, boosting productivity and helping to reduce production costs. With heavy-duty roll handling up to 300 kg (660 lbs) and 10 liter ink supplies, the printer enables more unattended operation such as overnight printing. Additionally, dual-roll split spindles offer easier, safer handling of oversized rolls; in-line slitters reduce bottlenecks in finishing; and built-in LED

HP accelerates Productivity for sign & disPlay Print Providers and corrugated converters- address market demand for shorter runs and faster turnaround times

lights support on-the-fly proofing.Helping converters address market demand for shorter runs and faster turnaround times, the new HP Scitex 17000 Corrugated Press, powered by HP Scitex HDR Printing Technology, can increase digital print productivity for cost-effective corrugated packaging printing. The new press features the recently introduced HP Scitex Corrugated Grip and HP HDR230 Scitex Inks and prints at speeds of up to 1,000 sq m/hr (10,764 sq ft/hr) for economical, high-volume production of industrial-grade corrugated boards. Prints made with the HP HDR230 Scitex Inks on a representative coated media have been independently certified as having Good Deinkability.

3d Packaging design & Proofreading solutions at labelexPo 2015

Four Pees, an international distributor for the print and publishing industries, together with Global Vision, the world

leader in the development of innovative proofreading technologies, and Creative Edge Software, innovative developer for 3D ideation and design technology in the packaging market, will present their packaging solutions at Labelexpo 2015. IC3D Suite is a rapid packaging visualisation tool catering to a broad range of product types (from flexible products, over cans, bottles and other rigid product types to visualisation of folded carton products); it allows visualisation early in the design or ideation process and in a much quicker fashion than traditional 3D design tools. Special effects such as gold foil or embossing can be visualised perfectly and the material editor allows customisation of the look of all components of a product.


is designed to provide extra information and support to entire organisations that work with the printing press and is divided into four modules that can be ordered as add-ons. These include Service Module, which is delivered as a standard and helps for quick troubleshooting and if necessary remote service via a safe and quick internet connection. While, Process Module helps the operator with understanding printing errors during the offset printing process and can avoid print discrepancies. Besides, Operator Module helps the operator to efficiently operate the press and helps to reduce job changeover times. Management Module gives the management an extra detailed insight on the performance of the press. The manufacturer of flexible packaging has been restricted to the established processes flexo and gravure printing. Printing with the infinitely variable size web offset method (e.g. THALLO) has cost benefit compared to flexo or gravure printing. The ultimate goal is declared that it must be possible to produce flexible packaging in a wide range of print lengths at a reasonable cost. This is why up to now the established processes flexo and gravure dominated this area. Web offset machines have been missing this cost-efficient size range. Variable size offset printing is an up-and-coming process with rapidly developing technology that will increase its share in the flexible packaging market. In competition with the established processes, web offset has become a useful supplement, particularly for the range of small and medium runs, where printing plate costs and response times play a key role today.

Apart from the huge value addition and employment involved in retail activities, packaging has served the

Indian economy by helping preservation of the quality and lengthening the shelf life of innumerable products – ranging from milk and biscuits to drug and medicines, processed and semi-processed foods, fruits and vegetables, edible oils, electronic goods, etc besides domestic appliances and industrial machinery and other hardware needing transportation. The packaging industry growth has led to greater specialisation and sophistication from the point of view of health (in the case of packaged foods and medicines) and environment friendliness of packing material. The demand on the packaging industry are challenging given the increasing environmental awareness among communities. Over the past decade flexible packaging has emerged as arguably the most dynamic and innovative of packaging formats. The flexible packaging report gives a detailed analysis and forecast of the market on a global as well as regional level. This impressive rate of expansion is higher than the gross domestic product (GDP), suggesting the flexible packaging market is growing quicker than well-developed and traditional rigid packaging markets. The Smithers Pira report has forecasted the market to grow CAGR at 4.4 percent by 2019. The growth in packaging industry is mainly driven by the food and pharmaceuticals packaging sectors. The large and growing Indian middle class, along with the growth in organised retailing in the country are

fuelling growth in the packaging industry. In addition, expansion of food & beverage market, which is the largest application of flexible packaging, is expected to fuel the growth of the market. Rising consumer preference towards light weight, durable and highly aesthetic flexible packaging is expected to significantly fuel the growth of the market over the next few years. The packaging industry in India is a mix of both organised medium to large players as well as very small players with a localised

An innovAtion for the flexible pAckAging industry!While gravure is the market leader, offset and flexography printing both are used for printing short run packaging, but in different ways. The coming years should see a web offset in the converting and corrugating industries. With this demand a new name has geared up the market in very short span of time. THALLO is a first sleeve web offset presses for flexible packaging.

presence. The industry is comprised of a large number of manufacturers of basic materials, converted packages, machinery and ancillary materials. With the need of adopting better packaging methods, materials and machinery to ensure quality which has become very important for Indian businesses. While gravure is the market leader, offset and flexography printing are both used for printing short run packaging, but in different ways. The biggest advantage of offset quality is often superior to that of flexo, which becomes increasingly desirable in marketplace that strives to offer consumers a surfeit of choices. The booming label industry is riding an offset invasion for flexible packaging. It slowly adapts to the global trend where offset occupies the foremost position for package printing, hosts of opportunities are opening up for converters and the suppliers. The coming years should see a web offset in the converting and corrugating industries. With this demand a new name has geared up the market in very short span of time. THALLO is a name known for first sleeve web offset presses for flexible packaging. The sleeve offset technology initiated by DG Press and introduced by VINSAK in the region, allows one to work with variable sizes in web offset, easily change sizes without changing the units and a cost effective way of printing different repeat lengths. With this technology the change of unit is just a minute task. Any repeat range is possible between 406 – 762 mm (16-30”). THALLO is designed to be modular and adaptable to the production of almost every product. The press can incorporate equipment from other manufacturers. This results in a

flexible investment. It is equipped with the latest technology in

motion control

a l l o w i n g for unique control of web tension and substrate flow through the press. This increases the ability to print on a greater range of substrate. Web offset offers quality, cost advantage, flexibility, product safety and sustainability. This system


Although packaging is a very mature industry, it too thrives and grows through a constant influx of

innovation. VINSAK is a name well known for introducing always a new paradigm to the printing industry. Once again, the company has welcomed SYNCHROLINE – a game changer to the packaging industry. The Synchroline is capable of printing many different kinds of substrates like paper, light card board and flexible substrates. It is a true ‘Fully’ Servo press vs a number of ‘Pseudo’ servo presses now flooding the market. It is common practise for manufacturers today to put one servo at the in-feed and another at the out-feed whereas retaining a main motor and a mechanical line shaft and still call it a ‘servo’ press.

SYNCHROLINE – a gamE CHaNgER fOR paCkagINg

The Lombardi Synchroline is a three-motor servo press. The way the motors in Lombardi are geared together is conceived in order to gain the best accuracy in register and to minimise the gear bars. The ‘electronic shaft’ keeps register very accurately by means of an independent servo per print group. This printing press can be characterised as a modern working horse. It is equipped with printing groups governed singularly by brushless motors and the setting and maintenance of the printing register of the whole press is governed by the electric board with a system of register control. This

Ranesh Bajaj, Anubhav Jain, Massimo Lombardi and Ashok Jain.

The closeness of the Milan exhibition grounds where the Converflex exhibition took place, to Bobst Italia’s

production plant in San Giorgio Monferrato, always provides the opportunity for show visitors to make the short journey to see live demonstrations of BOBST gravure printing presses and laminators. This latest Converflex was no exception, and Bobst Italia had the pleasure of welcoming over 60 converters during the two days of the Open House.On its Converflex stand, BOBST treated visitors to a first taste of things to come at

the Open House by exhibiting a print unit from one of its most successful gravure press models ever – the Rotomec 4003MP gravure printing press for flexible materials, the same line in demonstration at the Open House.Gravure printing was, however, just one of the processes visitors to the BOBST stand at Converflex could discuss with the specialists who were on hand, each ready to illustrate the many solutions developed by BOBST to meet the production requirements of packaging manufacturers in the folding carton, corrugated board and flexible materials industries. Also

BOBSt ItaLIa HIgHLIgHtS gRavuRE aNd LamINatION tECHNOLOgIES

showcased at Converflex was the extensive BOBST range of services, designed to help users achieve optimum production levels, expand their capacity and succeed in their existing, or new, markets.For converters who made the journey to Bobst Italia’s production plant, the first technology to take center stage was gravure printing. The Rotomec 4003MP gravure press currently in Bobst Italia’s Competence Center is configured for shaftless gravure cylinders. The printing demonstration was built around showing guests the efficiency, and the resulting


output quality, of the systems and equipment the press is equipped with - most notably its integrated washing system and its Twin Trolley. The demonstration also gave visitors the opportunity to compare print samples taken from the machine at different stages of the run, that is, before and after the colour changes. The samples were then compared using a spectrophotometer, which registered a low “Delta E”, demonstrating the absence of contamination in the colours subsequent to wash-up. The use of the Twin Trolley system highlighted the flexibility it provides in terms of fast job preparation and ink logistics, as well as the savings that can be made by a reduction in both ink use and solvent waste. After seeing the performance of the equipment dedicated to gravure printing, visitors moved to the CL 850D duplex laminator equipped with a flexo trolley. As the quality of BOBST flexo trolley is acknowledged, especially for its performance in coating solvent-based adhesives onto thin aluminium foil, visitors were able to check the perfect quality of the output: a two-layer composite material made up of 7 micron aluminium foil and 12 micron PET.Over 200 Rotomec 4003MP gravure printing presses are installed world-wide, whilst the CL 850 laminator has a firmly consolidated position in the class of high performance equipment with advanced technology and automation, holding the largest market share in the two major markets of Italy and Germany.

FiFteen esko soFtware installed at GiPt, MuMbai

Esko, the leading software and hardware provider to the packaging, signage

and POS-POP supply chain in India, is committed to helping train packaging specialists. Recognising this need, it recently equipped the Government Institute of Printing Technology (GIPT) in Mumbai with fifteen software licenses of ArtiosCAD 3D modeling and structural design tools, DeskPack and Flexo Tools. Esko signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with GIPT and provided these packaging prepress software licenses free of cost. Subsequent to the installation in GIPT’s prepress classroom, Esko application engineer Prashant Kamat, conducted a training programme on ArtiosCAD 3D modeling and layout tools consisting of six hours daily for a full week. A follow up training programme for prepress essentials and flexo tools was conducted in May 2015. GIPT’s principal, Dr Hemant P Taskar said, “We are extremely grateful to Esko for showing confidence in our institute and particularly to Esko’s team members for their overwhelming support.” Srihari Rao, director of sales, Esko for India said, “Our agreement with the GIPT is a necessary part of our ongoing assistance to educational and training institutions. By providing knowledge and hands-on training, we are creating a resource for the industry and encouraging the best talent to look at the opportunities in this sophisticated area of the packaging industry. Our graphics team will remain

in constant touch with the institution for any help it might need and for any software upgrades that are part of the agreement.” Describing the new capability in training using Esko’s state-of-the-art software tools and solutions, member of the GIPT faculty Sameer Deshpande said, “By giving high level training to college students, we have significantly reduced their training time in packaging companies. Hence, our students are much more suitable and equipped with the knowledge of Esko software for placements and jobs especially in folding carton, Flexo and gravure industry. Companies such as Essel Propack, Huhtamaki PPL and Parksons Packaging have appreciated this effort. Students too are interested and enthusiastic in learning this software greatly.”

Prasad Tawade, Sameer Deshpande (Lecturer GIPT), Arun (Esko), Prashant (Esko), Kunal More, Anil Deshmukh, Vivek Bagul (Behind) and Bhushan Gadhari.

enables to correct on real time the deviation from the register due to the extensions of the material. For the printing industry that looks for maximum versatility and the possibility of working on a wide gamma of materials. SYNCHROLINE is equipped with ABS printing unit. It is fully automatic electronic pre-registration system: minimum material waste, minimum waste of time, maximum precision. It has fully automatic register controls with parameterisation system for perfect registration on extensible materials. It has electronic tension control for perfect tensioning of different substrates along with Quality analysis system. Saurabh Jain of A&A Labels, a user of Synchroline, said, “Addition of Synchroline 430 has opened up new applications and allows us to work on wide gamut of materials. The machine has offered us the opportunity to produce labels on flexible film as well as begin the production of mono-cartons, thereby expanding our portfolio and market reach beyond the regional level.” “As a company we put lot of effort into our solutions that are truly innovative and address real needs among our customers. It’s been impressive to watch A & A Labels expand their production with Synchroline and further strengthen their business,” said Ranesh Bajaj. The coming year will hopefully see a spurt in Lombardi installations in India and the coming Label Expo in Brussels should be a good showcase for the same.


The leading solutions provider for printing & packaging industry, VINSAK has entered into a strategic alliance

with Iwasaki International Inc, Osaka, Japan. “Iwasaki is a market leader in printing and finishing solutions for the production of short to medium run labels using conventional techniques of offset, letterpress and flexo. Their capability and understanding of the intermittent feeding of substrates is unparalled in the industry and they have provided many innovative solutions to global leaders in the Label Printing market,” says Ranesh Bajaj, director - VINSAK. “We have been contemplating and changing our partners in this region a couple of times but we hope to have found in VINSAK a reliable and long term partner who can provide the right

VINSAK, SIgNS StrAtegIc ASSocIAtIoN wIth IwASAKI INterNAtIoNAl INc

solutions and service to our customers in these regions,” says Naoki Ogawa, export director, Iwasaki International. Iwasaki International Inc. is an international marketing division of Iwasaki Tekko Co Ltd—a leading Japanese manufacturer of small to medium capacity label printing machines operated in Japan, Europe, Southeast Asia and other countries. The range consists of roll-to-roll label printing machines with max 330 mm web width. Applied technologies are: wet / waterless offset, letterpress, hot-foil, laminating, backside printing, LED UV light, UV flexo varnishing, die cutting / rotary diecutting, and converting machines for digital solutions etc.

INterNAtIoNAl PAcKtech INdIA, MuMbAI

International PackTech India and drink technology India will be held from December 15-17, 2016 at

Bombay Convention & Exhibition Centre Goregaon(East), Hall No.1, Mumbai.The 2014 edition of International PackTech India and drink technology India saw a total of 230 exhibitors presenting their products. The trade fair duo attracted around 10,250 trade visitors who came to obtain information about solutions for the international packaging, package printing, processing, beverage and food industries.The organisers, Messe Düsseldorf and its Indian subsidiary for International PackTech India as well as Messe München International and its subsidiary MMI India for drink technology India, also drew a most positive balance. “We have achieved a completely new level with this result,” declared Dr. Reinhard Pfeiffer, deputy chief executive officer of Messe München International. “Following three joint events, drink technology India and International PackTech India have finally become established in the India market.

Print & Publishing Aug-Sep 2015 Skill Development

Tagging along the trends slipping into the industry through times, the course structure of BTech in Printing

& Packaging offered by the Printing & Publication Department of Kurukshetra University is duly designed to nurture students in propounding knowledge and aspects of the current printing industry, with special study on packaging printing. “In addition to studies on technical and machinery know-how, contents of our curriculum exclusively cover a vast aspect of printing, such as role of graphics,” mentions Moninder. He points out as a matter of reality that the present growth in the industry is

rather inclined more upon the packaging domain. As of now, the department offers just one main course; but the plans have been laid down to introduce higher courses, such as MTech and PhD, in near future or probably right from the next academic session. In the current batch of the department’s BTech programme, there are 60 students, out of which 20 are girls. Number of girl students in the department keeps increasing in every new academic session. “There were barely 40 students in the previous batch; this year, we have 60 with straight away increase of 50 percent,” shares Moninder, adding, “Around

a few years back the number of girl students in the department was countable on finger tips—let’s say around two or three in every batch.” When enquired about the reason behind the increasing interest among girls in pursuing printing courses, Moninder attributes it to marvels of ultra-modern machineries and technologies swelling in the current market. “The old notion of judging printing as a labour-

oriented job has long been discarded. This industry has now transformed into more of a computerised world; automations have brought drastic changes to traditional norms, giving everything painstakingly a cleaner environment. Such transition is one of the big reasons of the industry attracting female professionals,” he explains, adding that even parents nowadays consider choosing printing as career option for their kids. “We organise seminars and workshops at regular intervals, inviting industry experts, at the department,” mentions Moninder. He says such interactive events help students know what is trending or happening in the industry. The seminars are very much a part of the curriculums. Students at the department take part in at least one seminar in every semester of their BTech programme. In this respect, Moninder advises students rather to be involved in field visits than confining only in the classroom to experience live running of machines and production procedures. In order to provide the students the applied knowledge, the department has set up a lab equipped with two single-colour offset machines; two treadle presses; five wire stitching and six thread sewing machines; two cutters; three rulers and many others. “In addition to our portfolio of traditional machines and post-press equipments, we have two digital presses—Xerox 7020 and Riso EZ 570,” says Moninder. He adds that nothing is meant to be running or operating alone nowadays; offset presses

KuruKshetra university as a breeding ground of printing professionals Kurukshetra University established its own Publication Bureau in 1975 with a view to publish low-priced textbooks for undergraduate classes. Later on, the bureau merged with its Printing and Publication Department in 1978, continually engaging in printing jobs and offering BTech in Printing & Packaging. Moninder Kumar Moudgil, manager, Printing and Publication Department, Kurukshetra University tells Print & Publishing about the department.

KuruKshetra university as a breeding ground of printing professionals Kurukshetra University established its own Publication Bureau in 1975 with a view to publish low-priced textbooks for undergraduate classes. Later on, the bureau merged with its Printing and Publication Department in 1978, continually engaging in printing jobs and offering BTech in Printing & Packaging. Moninder Kumar Moudgil, manager, Printing and Publication Department, Kurukshetra University tells Print & Publishing about the department.

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have limitation when it comes to short-run production, so here we provide room to digital presses. Moninder mentions that students pursuing BTech at the department are highly privileged as the packaging printing market all over the world is now heading to a new level of growth. He further explains that their curriculum gives broader focus on die-cutting, specialty substrates, etc, which are essentials in packaging prints. Abandoning all negative thoughts and speculations over the beginning of the end of the era of printed newspapers, Moninder shrugs to say, “How come it would happen in India where the industry is gaining growth gradually day-by-day.” He mentions that the newspaper industry, which is the second largest sector (first being the automobile), will always survive in one way or the other. He agrees to the fact that electronic devices and gadgets serve faster than printed newspapers in popping up breaking news. “But in semi-rural or non-metropolitan cities, circulations of printed newspapers

Moninder Kumar Moudgil

keep rising and new titles are pouring in,” observes Moninder. “There was a time when we browsed for newspapers available in the market, only a few leading national dailies were available; but the scenario has changed a lot today as you can find a dozen of quality regional dailies, weeklies, tabloids circulating all around, gaining readership so successfully in rural and semi-urban geographies,” he explains. Besides seasonal jobs like printing of question papers, calendars, annual reports, student magazines, and annual publications of the university, the Printing & Publication Department of Kurukshetra University prints Research Journal of Haryana Studies, Research Journal of Arts & Humanities, Digest of Indological Studies and all general books published by the varsity. Joining the debate on the sustainability of printed materials, Moninder opines ‘printing industry is eternal’ as it always be and will continue to print invitation cards of first birthdays to death anniversary information cards.

Born on October 15, 1931 at Rameswaram in Tamil Nadu, Dr Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam,

specialised in Aeronautical Engineering from Madras Institute of Technology. Dr Kalam made significant contribution as project director to develop India's first indigenous Satellite Launch Vehicle (SLV-III) which successfully injected the Rohini satellite in the near earth orbit in July 1980 and made India an exclusive member of Space Club. He was responsible for the evolution of ISRO's launch vehicle programme, particularly the PSLV configuration. After working for two decades in ISRO and mastering launch vehicle technologies, Dr Kalam took up the responsibility of developing Indigenous Guided Missiles at Defence Research and Development Organisation as the chief executive of Integrated Guided Missile Development Programme (IGMDP). He was responsible for the development and operationalisation of AGNI and PRITHVI Missiles and for building indigenous capability in critical technologies through networking of multiple institutions. He was the scientific adviser to defence minister and secretary, Department of Defence Research & Development from July 1992 to December 1999. During this period he led to the weaponisation of strategic missile systems and the Pokhran-II nuclear tests in collaboration with Department of Atomic Energy, which made India a nuclear weapon State. He also gave thrust to self-reliance in defence systems by progressing multiple development tasks and mission

OBITUARY

IndIa mourns the loss of vIsIonary

Dr APJ Abdul Kalam (October 15, 1931 – July 27, 2015)

projects such as Light Combat Aircraft.As a chairman of Technology Information, Forecasting and Assessment Council (TIFAC) and as an eminent scientist, he led the country with the help of 500 experts to arrive at Technology Vision 2020 giving a road map for transforming India from the present developing status to a developed nation. Dr Kalam took up academic pursuit as professor, Technology & Societal Transformation at Anna University, Chennai from November 2001 and was involved in teaching and research tasks. Above all he took up a mission to ignite the young minds for national development by meeting high school students across the country.In his literary pursuit four of Dr Kalam's books – Wings of Fire, India 2020 - A Vision for the New Millennium, My journey and Ignited Minds - Unleashing the power within India have become household names in India and among the Indian nationals abroad. These books have been translated in many Indian languages.Dr Kalam was one of the most distinguished scientists of India with the unique honour of receiving honorary doctorates from 30 universities and institutions. He was awarded the coveted civilian awards - Padma Bhushan (1981) and Padma Vibhushan (1990) and the highest civilian award Bharat Ratna (1997). He is a recipient of several other awards and Fellow of many professional institutions.Dr Kalam became the 11th president of India on July 25, 2002. He died on July 27, 2015. May his soul rest in peace!

Some of the books authored by Dr Kalam

Envisioning an Empowered Nation

Ignited Minds

The Luminous Sparks

The Life TreeChildren Ask Kalam Indomitable Spirit

Inspiring Thoughts

Guiding Souls

2020- A Vision for the New Millennium

Wings Of Fire

Mission IndiaMy Journey

Developments in Fluid Mechanics and Space Technology

Print & Publishing Aug-Sep 2015 Book Printing

We have a capacity to produce 20,000-30,000 books on

an average every day, shares Ravi Shroff, managing director, Nutech Print Services. In order to cater to more black-and-white publishing jobs, the company has recently taken over Baba Barkha Nath Printers, with Timmy Kuthiala, former managing director at Baba Barkha Nath Printers, joining as the vice-president of operations at Nutech Print Services. “At Nutech, 70-80 percent output is 4-colour while Baba Barkha Nath catered to the black-and-white segment and they had a set of very good clients in the book publishing segment. As such, it was a total synergistic acquisition. We took many months to work out the deal,” told Ravi. As a matter of fact, the equipment at Baba Barkha Nath was not a part of the deal. “Some of the employees at Baba Barkha Nath are being absorbed in Nutech,” added Ravi. Baba Barkha Nath Printers is a 37-year-old company, which initially started with a phototypesetting machine. They have been one of the leading book printers in India.

The print jobs…With a four decade legacy, Nutech Print Services offers pre-press, press and finishing facilities to the publishing industry and commercial jobs to corporates. With the help of their 300-plus workforce across their plant in Ballabgarh (Delhi-NCR) and sales & admin office in New Delhi, they can produce

any trim size, be it monochrome or high-end colour printing. Their mix of work runs from basic one-colour paperback to high-end 4-colour coffee table/children's books, school text books, dictionaries, colouring books, travel guides, calendars, bible printing on 28 gsm paper and much more with finishing facilities including soft- and hardcover binding.Their press installation include 8-colour press, four 4-colour presses, and four single colour machines to meet all kinds of production requirements.On asking about the publishing vs. commercial business, Ravi replied that 80 percent of their job is for book publishing while 20 percent is for other commercial jobs like marketing collaterals. The ratio of domestic vs export business is 40:60 for them. “We are aiming at an equal

balance. Exports jobs are very demanding as expectations remain very high,” shared Ravi.

Popular sizes of books…There are three popular sizes of books – A4, B-format and crown size. “The majority publishing work is in A4 and B-format. Most of the textbook publishers are now going for standardisation towards A4 format, which also gets them better pricing,” shared Ravi.

Consumables used…Nutech uses both indigenous as well as imported paper, of which 70 percent consumption is of indigenous paper. They use Bible, uncoated, coated paper,

high bulk paper, etc. “It is more comfortable to work with foreign paper mills as most of them have a three months validity for their paper prices, which is not seen in India, but the long delivery times makes it difficult to use more Foreign paper,” told Ravi.Another important consumable is ink/varnishes and Ravi always uses quality inks from world leaders Toyo and Sakata.

Trends in print runs…With the print runs decreasing in the publishing segment, what is the trend Ravi sees? “The print runs for fiction is coming down as publishers want to print less, test market it and then place the second run. They do not wish to stock excess printed copies and pulp unsold copies in the end,” told Ravi.“Similarly, the print runs of dictionaries and reference books has come down drastically. This is because such information is easily available online,” he added. But, there is a silver lining. “The print runs in education segment (K-12 segment) is going high, increasing at a rate of 10-12 percent every year,” he told. Reprints are more in education segment. “Computer books are frequently updated and have a low shelf life while medical books have an average shelf life of 4-5 years,” he added.With publishing houses going for

Partners to Publishers!Nutech Print Services was recently in news for acquiring Baba Barkha Nath Printers, who are well known printers for the publishing industry. Here, Ravi Shroff, MD, Nutech Print Services shares the ins and outs of the book printing business.

Print & Publishing Aug-Sep 2015 Book Printing

digital printing, is Nutech also looking at this aspect? “Not at the moment…we feel there is already excess capacity in Digital and the cost being offered by printers is not viable. Also there are many small vendors who are efficiently giving economical solutions to the publishers. So right now, we wish to focus on our core business,” answered Ravi as a matter of fact.

On challenges…“The cost of labour is growing high, and efficiencies are not improving as they should. Besides, there is stiff competition in this field,” told Ravi. But, he believes that their strengths have helped them face all odds. “We are a solution provider and not just a printer. Our customers are loyal repeat customers as we try to give them a full solution on time. We are a professionally-run company and we have very good quality of manpower across all levels - Which I believe can be a great differentiator,” shared Ravi.

On competition with Chinese printing…Though printing industry seems to be facing stiff competition from Chinese printing industry, Ravi has a different opinion. “China is a container pusher. Not every publisher wants container jobs. Few publishers are looking for small to medium runs - Here, India’s role comes into play. Besides, Indians have an obvious advantage in being fully conversant in English language. One should know ones advantage and try to focus on it,” told Ravi.

Future plans…“India is a huge geographical region and feel many times opportunity exists for print runs to be split, basis delivery requirements. We wish to have our presence in down South and are open to have an understanding with a printer in South - so work can be shared and produced in South,” concluded Ravi.

In order to cater to more black-and-white publishing jobs, the company has recently taken over Baba Barkha Nath Printers, with Timmy Kuthiala, former managing director at Baba Barkha Nath Printers, joining as the vice-president of operations at Nutech Print Services. “At Nutech, 70-80 percent output is 4-colour while Baba Barkha Nath catered to the black-and-white segment and they had a set of very good clients in the book publishing segment. As such, it was a total synergistic acquisition. We took almost 1.5 years to work out the deal,” told Ravi.

Ravi Shroff and Timmy Kuthiala B orn in Punjab in 1960, and a graduate from Institute of Printing

Technology, JJ School of Arts, Mumbai, RB Kashyap has 31 years of experience in the printing industry. He started his career in 1984 with Comart, Mumbai, which was a leading pre-press unit at that time. “Pre-press was very popular at that time. There were only 2-3 drum scanners in the country and Comart was one of them having that. The company was doing ad campaigns for well-known brands like Raymond, Vimal Sarees, Shyam Ahuja, etc and we were scanning 100-200 sets of campaigns every day. It was an analogue scanner and all corrections were done manually, which was a difficult task. There was no room for mistake. But, gradually I learned the tricks of the trade,” shares Kashyap.In 1987, Kashyap moved to Thomson Press, Delhi. “I stayed here for seven days and was on trial on scanner. My work was appreciated and I joined as the head of scanning department. I spent two years in scanning and systems. Gradually, I started taking care of planning, camera and layout sections as well. Soon, I was heading the entire pre-press unit, with a staff of 200 people,” says Kashyap.

RB Kashyap, unit head, thomson pRess

He was also instrumental in setting up an independent pre-press unit in Okhla, New Delhi. Today, Kashyap is the unit head of Thomson Press, Faridabad, taking care of the entire printing operations.Kashyap’s strengths include colours, pre-press, press and binding, in which he has thorough knowledge. “I can detect a problem by merely looking at the printed piece,” he says. He is a part of the investment policies of the management and has been actively involved in equipment

structuring for the digital printing

set-up of Thomson Press. To keep himself abreast with the latest t e c h n o l o g y , K a s h y a p

visits all major international fairs

like Imprinta, drupa, IPEX, China Print, to

name a few.He is happily married since 1990 and has two kids. Kashyap’s family has supported him through his erratic work hours. But, he makes it a point to never discuss work pressures at home. Since his busy hours leave no time for hobbies, he is happy watching news channels and reading newspapers in his leisure time. Regular walks keep him fit.“The best part of my profession is customer satisfaction, which gives me immense pleasure all the time,” concluds Kashyap.

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Canon India Pvt Ltd, India’s No#1 complete digital imaging company,

has opened a new training centre in Noida to provide technical skill development to its engineers and channel partners. The new centre will empower them with techniques and information which will equip them to handle customer queries and installation with utmost care. This is a first-of-its-kind training facility that has been initiated with an objective of increasing the product knowledge of the engineers.The training centre houses the best-in-class and technologically

advanced printers like DreamLabo 5000, OCE Vario Print 6000, iPR1135 and iPRC 800, iPRC7000VP, TDS 750, TDS 350 and CW 300. Canon India aims to improve the efficiency of the engineers and the channel partners with the help of this training facility. The facility, which is almost 4000 sq ft in size, has two training rooms for the engineers and has one staff seating room as well.Puneet Datta, director of professional printing products (PPP) group, Canon India said, “Canon believes in providing best customer experience through its

various services. With the help of our new training facility, we aim to excel in this endeavour by imparting training to our engineers, sales teams and channel partners. The training will help them to get a better understanding of PPP products and further enhance the customer experience. The facility, which has already trained more than 50 engineers since the time of its inception, acts as a technical backup centre in case of any downtime issue for mission critical customer.”Workshops and in-house learning sessions are frequently organised in the facility to make

opens first of its kind training & support facility in noida

the engineers well adept with the products. The engineers will also be given field trainings to identify and rectify problems in the products. Product demonstrations will also be given in the facility to give the customers a better understanding about the products.

Print service providers can develop customised solutions to automate and streamline their digital print production operations using

the new EFI Fiery API (application programming interface). Available now, print service providers can use the Fiery API to tightly integrate their digital print operations with their existing IT framework to share data and eliminate job-prep process steps.

efi fiery api paves the way to new, custom applications for digital print management

Print service providers with in-house or contract developers can solve their unique challenges with an API that leverages the industry-leading Fiery digital front end

(DFE) platform for the creation of web and native client applications. The Fiery API includes a modern web app framework, provides session and user management tools and robust access security.

Print & Publishing Aug-Sep 2015 Variable Data & Digital Printing

New appoiNtmeNts at XeroX iNdia

Xerox has appointed Ashraf ElArman as

managing director of Xerox India, effective June 22, 2015. He is responsible for new business development, driving growth and achieving business objectives for the country. “Ashraf will be responsible for leading the Xerox India organisation to achieve the company’s business objectives as part of Xerox Developing Market Operation’s growth plans for Xerox India,” said Roy Harding, chief operating officer, developing markets organisation, Xerox. “India is a significant growth market for Xerox and we will focus on continued channel expansion as well as extending our coverage and expanding our partner relationships throughout India.”Ashraf joins Xerox India from his role as general manager of Xerox Egypt. He has been with Xerox since 1990 and has held various senior-level positions. “India is a country with great potential and with the investment and business climate looking up, it offers a tremendous growth opportunity,” says Ashraf ElArman. While, Sushant Dwivedy has been appointed as the director, global document outsourcing, Xerox India. In his elevated role, Sushant would be leading the document management services business in India that includes Xerox’s portfolio of next generation managed print services, document supply chain management services, communication & marketing services and document transaction and processing services. Sushant replaces Vishal Awal. Commenting on his new role, Sushant Dwivedy said, “This elevation comes as a wonderful opportunity for me to drive the Xerox Services mandate in India and build on potential business prospects in the DMS space. Xerox is uniquely positioned to offer end to end document capabilities to enterprises of all sizes further improving end-user experience of services. I aim to leverage the value proposition that company has built over the year and expand on the strong MPS and DMS offerings we have in India. I am really excited at the prospect of leading this mandate for Xerox in India and confident of our continued success in this highly promising market.”

Sushant DwivedyAshraf ElArman

KoNica miNolta @ photo trade show eXhibitioN

Konica Minolta participated in the Photo Trade Show Exhibition which is the only dedicated annual exhibition for photo trade professionals, businesses and enthusiasts in Hyderabad

(Telangana), Andhra Pradesh and other states of South India for the photo industry.Konica Minolta displayed bizhub PRESS C70HC & C1060 with Print Xpress. The customers were very excited to see the capability of the machines and the software. Konica Minolta has their expertise in the toner technology and has created a very unique toner for C70HC which has the capability to have the colour gamut very close to sRGB which makes it a very good proposition for the RGB applications.

EFI and Xerox have partnered to deliver the first digital print server

featuring the new Fiery FS200 Pro digital front end (DFE) platform, which will power Xerox’s new iGen 5 Press.Designed to drive excellent quality and productivity on the iGen 5, the Xerox EX-P 5 Print Server Powered by Fiery features EFI Fiery HyperRIP. Fiery DFEs are powered by EFI’s proprietary ASIC (application specific integrated circuit) with RIPChip technology that can process print files significantly

faster than alternative DFEs. The new server expands the performance advantage with EFI’s breakthrough Fiery HyperRIP offering, which boosts processing speeds up to 55 percent compared to performance without HyperRIP.

New eFi Fiery priNtserver drives XeroX iGeN 5

Ricoh India organised a road show on July 24, 2015 at Hotel Courtyard Marriott, Ahmedabad. The event was inaugurated jointly by JP Yadav of Pixel Print

Shop; Chirantan Gandhi, Surat and Mudresh Purohit of Surya Offset.Product demonstration was the main attraction point for the customers where the response was overwhelming for Ricoh Pro C 7100X and Ricoh Aficio MPW 2401/3601 machines from visitors. Ricoh Pro C 7100X cutsheet printer has a new 5th colour station, including clear gloss and white toner offering new applications and delivering a premium finish. It can print up to 90 pages per minute. Its support for textured media, envelopes, cling film and transparent media opens up opportunities for light packaging, demo packaging, direct mail, books, brochures and business cards.While, Ricoh Aficio MPW 2401/3601 is a multi-function wide format printer, which can print with peak print speeds of up to 4.4 ppm (A1) and 2.4 ppm (A0) on a surprisingly compact footprint.

ricoh orGaNises road show iN ahmedabad


Konica Minolta recently displayed at Digi Image Expo held at Neelakanta

Convention Centre, Bengaluru. Hosted by the Karnataka Photographers’ Association, the region’s leading photo video association, Digi image now attracts visitors from all over India, with thousands of photography and imaging specialists, introducing them to cutting-edge technology, industry experts and an extensive programme of workshop.Konica Minolta displayed some of its unique products like bizhub press C1060 / C70HC & MGI samples but the limelight was of course on C70HC with Print Xpress, capable to reproduce the colours very close to the RGB colour gamut which makes it very near to traditional photo lab quality. Konica Minolta has installed more than 250 of C70HC in the country.Konica Minolta had more than 500 visitors and approximately 150 demos of their products.While, Photo Fest India (July 29-31, 2015), organised by the All Kerala P h o t o g r a p h e r s Association, was the first event in Kerala, Konica Minolta participated directly of its own after their acquisition of the KM business from their biggest distributor. Kerala is a very important market for Konica Minolta and the customers in

Kerala have very well accepted the technology. They have always appreciated the machines from Konica Minolta for their business for creating Photo Albums.For Konica Minolta this also provided an opportunity to demonstrate the flexibility and versatility in its products. Konica Minolta displayed their most successful models Bizhub PRESS C1100 and Bizhub PRESS C1060. Bizhub PRESS C1100 is a workhorse and can print on wide variety of Media with consistent productivity at all GSM’s and also does auto duplex for media up to 350GSM. Bizhub PRESS C1060 shows the flexibility a digital printing

Konica Minolta MarKs its presence at Digi iMage expo 2015 & photo Fest inDia

Masterpiece graphix Mgx 12-point boarD sheet Material certiFieD!

Color-Logic—developer of the Process Metallic Color System—has announced their certification of Masterpiece

Graphics MGX 12-Point Board Material for use with the Color-Logic process on HP Indigo cut sheet presses. Commenting on the certification, Color-Logic director of sales and marketing Mark Geeves said, “Color-Logic certification tests clearly demonstrate the compatibility of the Color-Logic Process Metallic Color System and Masterpiece Graphics MGX 12-Point Silver Board, Rainbow Holographic Board, and Silver Rain Holographic Board Sheet Material. Printers producing metalised packaging materials on the Indigo can confidently use Color-Logic and any of these three MGX 12-Point substrates to create striking metallic packages and prototype packages that accurately represent ultimate production. Other potential uses include direct mail, postcards, magazine covers, business cards, trade or playing cards, gift or loyalty cards, promotional pieces and counter cards.”Over the years MGX has provided HP Indigo users with more than 900 materials and offers specialty coating and digital substrates to all other major digital printers. Masterpiece Graphix draws on more than thirty years of experience in printing, coating and packaging, and offers a wide array of digital substrate and coating options. MGX excels at sheet, roll, narrow web, wide format coating, and specialised material coatings.

machine can have. The machine can print on wide variety of media and also gives the flexibility to print on media up to 13x47” for book covers and if the customer wants full page in the album like traditional the RGB album which can also be prepared.


Scodix Ultra Pro presses have recently been ordered by CMYKhub (Australia),

Port Printing Works (Australia), and Fuzed of Auckland, New Zealand. “The systems were purchased off the show floor at the Printex show in Sydney, directly out of the Currie Group stand, the local Scodix distributor. The Scodix Ultra Pro system was appropriately chosen as a “Hot Pick” at this year’s event,” says their press release.All three industry leaders, CMYKhub, Port Printing Works, and Fuzed, purchased their Scodix systems to meet constant rising market demands from long-time clients, as well as new profitable business driven by the unique capabilities of digital enhancement.“The value we add to the printed project is not only relevant to the look and feel of the end product’s success, but to the

service provider’s importance to their clients,” notes Lior Meron, regional manager, Scodix. "Scodix plays an increasing role in elevating the customer's revenue and marketplace status by the opportunity we give our customers to differentiate themselves. All three of these marketplace trailblazers have not only realised these benefits, but capitalised upon them to the point they needed additional productive abilities just to keep up with the demand.”CMYKhub, with four different production factories throughout the continent, exclusively services other commercial printing providers. Trent Nankervis, MD, CMYKhub noted, “We are

Three cusTomers purchase scodix ulTra pro sysTems aT prinTex To overcome demand

dedicated to providing small to medium-size print shops and print resellers with access to the finest and most impacting print technologies available. Scodix enables us to offer superior quality and unique enhancements that our clients are eager to pay a premium price for. It’s a win-win situation. We needed to purchase an additional Scodix press to keep up with capacity demands".While, Port Printing Works, a 30-staff family printer, installed Australia’s first Scodix system (S74 Pro) back in 2013. “We produce an enormous amount of business cards, and the Scodix systems enable us to apply pinpoint-accurate spot UV in

an extremely efficient manner,” noted director Tom Wagenaar. “Being a wholesale printer, that translates to profits. But we also use the Scodix system for presentation folders, book covers, and basically anything that needs to stand

out. Our clients and their target audiences really appreciate the difference and value of the enhancements.”Fuzed Owners Jason and Matt Mills stated, “We needed to replace our existing Scodix press (upgraded to Scodix Ultra Pro) to keep up with constantly swelling capacity demands.” For Fuzed, public recognition just keeps coming. This year the company known for its production of lenticular printing, (exporting over 80 percent of it; much of it to Australia and the USA) won eight gold medals and seven highly commended prizes at this year’s Pride in Print, as well as being touted as Best in Process, for the digital print of their Guardians of the Galaxy Movie Invite. Last fall, using the same piece, Fuzed placed second in the General Printing Category in the 2014 Scodix Design Awards. It was chosen from a bank of very impressive entries that were done for well-known worldwide brands such as Chronograph, Jaguar, Bacardi, Stela Beer and MARVEL.

In a strategic move to expand its partner network in the country, Kodak Alaris

has embarked on a pan-India initiative, titled ‘Kodak Alaris Information Management Partnership Yatra 2015’. The objective of the programme is to engage with partners across the country, provide training, and share the company’s strategy and knowledge on the wide range of Kodak Alaris scanning solutions available in the market. This initiative will empower partners to grow the Information Management and document scanning business in India.‘Kodak Alaris Information Management Partnership Yatra

KodaK alaris embarKs on ‘informaTion managemenT parTnership yaTra’ in india

2015’ commenced in April this year across India. The partner meetings conducted in six cities - Delhi, Chennai, Lucknow, Jaipur, Vishakhapatnam and Patna - were attended by a total of 150 partners. In order to keep-up with the momentum, and expand the channel partner network further, Kodak Alaris plans to schedule the partner meets in additional Tier I and Tier II cities throughout the year. “We would like to thank our partners for their support in developing the market for Information Management business for Kodak Alaris in India”, said Vivek Naidu, vice president – information

management at Kodak Alaris India. “We believe in investing in our partners and having a mutually beneficial relationship.

The twin-fold objectives of ‘Kodak Alaris Information Management Partnership Yatra 2015’ are knowledge transfer and relationship building with existing and potential partners. This is to ensure that our partners have the right skill-set to engage with customers.”The advantage for channel partners and their customers is the widespread post-sales service network of Kodak Alaris across India. The company provides service and support from installation to maintenance to professional services, ensuring ongoing productivity as well as continued relevance of the solutions to business processes.

The twin-fold objectives of ‘Kodak Alaris Information Management Partnership Yatra 2015’ are knowledge transfer and relationship building with existing and potential partners.

Print & Publishing Aug-Sep 2015 News & Activities

BREAKING NEWS

IPAMA lends full suPPort to PAMeX 2015

All India Federation of Master Printers ( A I F M P ) ,

organisers of PAMEX 2015 (which is scheduled to stage from December 09-12 at Bombay Exhibition Centre in Mumbai),

visitors. IPAMA is known for its landmark PRINTPACK expo. Both the organisations have been working closely for the betterment of the Indian printing fraternity, exchanging supports to each other for many years now, through their respective expos. This year, PAMEX is returned to Mumbai after a gap of eight years, which

have signed up for the PAMEX 2015. In order to ensure good visitors’ footfall to the show, a promotional campaign is now underway. Under the mutual coordination between AIFMP and IPAMA, PAMEX and PRINTPACK are planned to be organised at separate timings and venues, so that the two major printing organisations or organisers of the expos could participate or help each other’s event. AIFMP is offering a special discount of Rs 2,000 per sq m to IPAMA members who book stands for PAMEX 2015 before August 31. For this offer, applicants can directly apply to event managers under intimation to IPAMA, says the press note jointly signed by the presidents of both the organisations.

At the inauguration of Pamex 2013

gets full support from the Indian Printing, Packaging and Allied Machinery Manufacturers’ Association (IPAMA) to make the trade expo accessible to broader

is being hailed by industry people with huge enthusiastic responses. More than 125 exhibitors, including most of the leading industry players,

Goss International has announced that parent company, Shanghai Electric Corporation (SEC), has entered

into a definitive agreement to sell Goss

Goss InternAtIonAl to becoMe A PArt of AIPprinting machinery manufacturers, AIP proved to be the clear choice for ownership of Goss, upholding the company’s current standards as a customer-

presses, Goss is wholly committed to its valued, worldwide customer base and to the sale and support of its broad range of the industry’s most innovative products,” said Rick Nichols, CEO, Goss International.

“Goss is looking forward to the next phase of its journey under new ownership. AIP is a like-minded, forward-thinking organization that will continue to support our culture of innovation and customer collaboration. Our previous owners, SEC, will now refocus on their core business interests,” Nichols continued. With over a billion dollars of equity capital under management currently, AIP is an operationally-oriented private equity firm with an unparalleled track record of successful investments in North American based industrial businesses that serve global markets. The printing industry is not new to AIP as the company has previously owned Day International and Mark Andy, and Presstek is currently a part of its portfolio of companies. Nichols concluded, “SEC, since its acquisition of Goss in 2009, has been an excellent shareholder and business partner to Goss and they have set us up for success in the years ahead by selling their Goss interests to a highly qualified and committed buyer, American Industrial Partners. We look forward to building a business for the future with our new owner.”

focused, technology-driven market leader.The AIP transaction is subject to successfully achieving appropriate regulatory approvals and meeting certain closing conditions. It is expected to close within the next 60 to 90 days.“As a leading supplier of commercial web, newspaper and packaging offset printing

International and its subsidiaries to American Industrial Partners (AIP). The agreement forms part of a broader strategy to further strengthen Goss’ position as the world’s leading web-offset printing press supplier.With its broad portfolio of investments, including past and current holdings in


Monotech Systems has tied up with Shinohara range of multicolor sheetfed offset presses for Indian

market. TP Jain, managing director, Monotech Systems Limited says, “We are excited to add Shinohara offset presses in our product portfolio. The sheet-fed offset market has shown strong rebound in recent past and the preference is for new machines. Shinohara offers a lot of value added features which will help us to position this product well in the market”The product line include Shinohara 52/66/75/79/92 High Pile Series of presses that has been designed ground up aimed to give printers unprecedented levels of productivity, efficiency, operation and quality. Its high quality, high specification printing solutions will meet medium to large sized printing market need. These presses are equipped with SPC (Shinohara plate changer), advance technology feeder head, 7 O’clock cylinder alignment, plate cocking system, automatic wash up systems, ink temperature control, registration system for high speeds, pre-set feeder and delivery

Monotech SySteMS bringS ShinohArA Sheetfed offSet preSSeS to indiALeading manufacturer and supplier of products and solution for printing and packaging industry - Monotech Systems brings with pride the SHINOHARA range of multicolor sheetfed offset presses for Indian market. This brand from Japan has earned top marks throughout its history for producing products of quality, durability with cost performance.

option, in-line coating unit, cold UV curing system, interdeck UV curing unit, tell edge guide system, etc. The Shinohara 52 series brings a high level of quality and sophistication to the B3 (52cm) format. This series has all the features required for success in this sector, where short runs are common and quick job turnarounds are a must.While, the Shinohara 66 series brings the ultimate in press technology for printers with a work profile suiting the SRA2 format, and ensures savings in comparison to the more common B2 format.B2 is one of the most popular press formats in the world. For achieving ultimate in quality with an innovative edge, the Shinohara 75 series is not just the right choice, it’s now the most cost effective machine of its type on the market.

T P Jain, managing director, Monotech Systems Ltd and Liu Xuezhi, managing director, Shinohara

Shinohara 92 Series High Pile Sheetfed Offset Press

Shinohara’s leading edge technology is the Shinohara Perfecting System, which has been developed and refined since it was first introduced in 1979. It incorporates many patented advances made by Shinohara and offers exceptional register accuracy. Changeover from straight printing to perfecting is quick and easy.

BREAKING NEWS

The Shinohara 79 series is a latest advanced press for printers in high-quality large format printing. It suits to the work profile of B2 Format. Shinohara’s 92cm (SRA1) machine is a great choice for serious commercial printers who seek the ultimate in quality but

wish to maximize profits by improving efficiency and reducing waste. It offers full range of quality and productivity features,

the 92cm format means 8 x A4 sheets can be produced more economically than on a

B1 press.Liu Xuezhi, managing director, Shinohara says, “It’s our pleasure to meet Monotech in Print China 2015 and cooperate with this company. India is a huge and serious competitive market for large-scale equipment

manufacturer. After sales service is the most

important factor to get good sales performance and Monotech who

has professional team and committed staff, will be sure to provide satisfied service to all Indian printers and re-establish Shinohara brand in India market.”


A large international customer event took place at KBA-Sheetfed Solutions in Radebeul, near Dresden, with the

LED-UV & Traditional UV Conference from June 24-26, 2015. The event was a resounding success with around 1,000 print experts from mo-re than 30 countries in attendance. This huge level of interest shows just how important the topic of UV printing in diverse variations has now become to the print industry and how important sharing the knowledge is. Nevertheless, the event did not just focus on this technical topic. The visiting print pundits were treated to two new product developments at once with practical live demonstrations of the Rapida 105 PRO unveiled at Print China in April and the inline Rapida RDC (rotary die cutter). A series of press demos was dedicated to UV and finishing: cold-foil kit in connection with HR-UV technology on non-absorbent substrates was shown on a six-colour Rapida 106 with coater and ColdFoil Micro. When changing jobs the visitors saw a switch from self-adhesive labels to PP film. This was in addition to a demonstration of an automatic anilox roller change with AniloxLoader and automatic coating plate change with DriveTronic SFC. Various print jobs were shown for ‘work and turn’ on a new

Practical knowledge transfer on cutting-edge uV sheetfed offset

five-colour Rapida 75 with coater and LED dryer. One of the highlights of the demonstrations was the brilliant print quality on offset paper delivered by LED-UV.KBA presented a job printed with in-mould

Chennai based Global United Media Company Pvt Ltd

(India) has made world’s largest movie poster ever as part of the promotion for Baahubali, a massive Indian multi-lingual film that was released earlier this month. The official website of the reference book www.guinnessworldrecords.com has announced that after a lot of difficulty and hard work, the poster was finally laid out on the floor of a cricket ground at Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in Kochi, Kerala, India and covered an immense space of 4,793.65 sq m (51,598.21 sq ft) - a space equivalent to 18 tennis courts. The movie poster humbles the previous record-holding poster which had an area of 4,709.30 sq m (50,690.28 sq ft) and was achieved by AK Parti (Turkey), in Istanbul, Turkey, only a month before.

indian ePic film BaahuBali’s Printed Poster Breaks guinness world record

film and low-migration LED-UV inks on a Rapida 145 (six colours with coater). This was followed by jobs demonstrating fast work and turn with three different types of paper (matt, gloss and offset).

The focus of the job changes was placed on automation modules for fast set-up, these include DriveTronic SRW (simultaneous roller washing) and DriveTronic SFC coater with AniSleeve sleeve changing.

automated colour measurement for commercial Printers and conVerters

X-rite ultra-fast, IntelliTrax automatically scans the colour bar of a typical press sheet in less than

15 seconds, measuring special colours, PANTONE colours, non-process colours, and paper colour. IntelliTrax reports results on-screen instantly so press operators can quickly make adjustments and get to approved colour faster. IntelliTrax is the ideal colour management solution for high-end, high speed commercial printing and converting operations. X-Rite Pantone offers IntelliTrax training at its headquarters facility or on-site. IntelliTrax comes with a one-year warranty, with a service/upgrade plan available post-warranty.


Leading manufacturer and supplier of products and solution for printing and packaging industry – Chennai based,

Monotech Systems Ltd is introducing an array of finishing equipment from ATA China. ATA product line includes: combination folding machine with electrical knife; combination folding machine; buckle folding machine; combination folding machine for small fold length; flapping machine; three knife trimmer; press delivery and vertical press delivery. This will add value to the other product offerings from the company and will complement the company as “one stop solution provider”.Chumin Xiao, director, ATA machinery says, “We believe Monotech Systems has complete infrastructure to

Monotech introduces finishing solutionsestablish market for our products in India. They have necessary experience and expertise to become world class Post press supporting organisation in future. We firmly believe that, taking ATA distribution in India, they would forge ahead become a complete solution provider in India. We feel that Monotech Systems as technology introducer will provide each and every offset house in India with ATA products. We are very proud to have Monotech Systems as our Indian distributor

and we sincerely hope to sell and service our products through them for years to go. We know that they have achieved always the envying position whatever they take up like ‘Best Partner Awards’, ‘Best Customer Support Awards’ from BasysPrint, Belgium, Konica Minolta like brands. We wish them all the very best!”While, TP Jain, managing director, Monotech Systems Limited, says, “ATA’s print finishing equipment complete our product portfolio

of prepress, press and post press equipment. This will enable us to act as a single window solution provider for our valued customers. ATA’s products enjoy tremendous market reputation and stand out in terms of quality and reliability”.

Arets grAphics gets A new nAMe

ARETS GRAPHICS India Pvt Ltd has been rechristened to TOYO INK ARETS India Pvt Ltd and Prashant

Atre continues to be the managing director of the company. He firmly believes that c u s t o m er s of India will be benefited with Toyo Ink Group’s rich knowledge and innovations in UV and EB chemistry.Toyo Ink Group, a well-known name in the printing ink and chemical business, had acquired Arets Graphics NV with all their group companies in 2013. While, Arets had acquired a commendable position in the industry with its state-of-the-art manufacturing and research facility in Belgium for UV and EB curable inks and coatings.Arets Graphics NV had renamed itself as Toyo Ink Arets NV in January 2015 but the transformation took some time for the Indian subsidiary. There already was an existing organisation with a similar name; Toyo Ink India, operating in India. Therefore, it took several NOCs and approval before the ROC awarded them the new name.

NPES has earned reaccreditation as a standards development organisation by the American National Standards

Institute (ANSI) after an audit of the

association's standards administration operations by ANSI. NPES administers the work of the Committee for Graphic Arts Technologies Standards (CGATS) and B65 committees, and also serves as secretariat for the US Technical Advisory Group to the International Organisation for Standardisation's Technical Committee 130 on Graphic Technology (USTAG to TC130).CGATS, which received ANSI accreditation in 1989, manages the entire scope of technical work for printing, publishing and converting technologies represented in one national standardisation and coordination effort, while respecting the established activities of existing accredited standards committees and industry standards developers. The scope of CGATS standards

npes reAccredited by the AMericAn nAtionAl stAndArds institute

relates to pallet loading of printed materials, metrology, terminology, plates, process control, digital data exchange, colour data definition, design workflow for packaging,

and ink and colour characterisation for packaging.The B65 Committee, ANSI accredited in 1983, is responsible for developing safety standards relating to printing presses and press systems, binding/finishing equipment and systems, bindery cutting machines, platen presses and

ink making equipment. These standards address design, arrangements, designation, and colour scheme of controls and signaling devices, guarding and interlocking of guards, mechanical safety devices, symbology, and safe practices as they apply to printing equipment.The USTAG to TC130 consists of industry experts who provide ANSI with guidance on the development of the US position on International Standards relating to all areas of the graphic arts including, but not limited to technologies such as ink, process control, plates, blankets, digital data exchange, environmental impact of printed products, management of security printing, printing certification requirements, safety and colour management.


The graphic arts industry has changed immensely and forces the supply industry to make organisational

changes. Koenig & Bauer (KBA) therefore recently took this shift into account by spinning-off business units operating on the market and production activities from the future holding company. But that is not enough: In parallel, experts from the company’s largest business unit KBA-Sheetfed Solutions have been working on a new global sales, service and marketing

strategy. As part of this, meetings have been taking place regularly with representatives from the subsidiaries. The strategy’s goal is ‘digital business transformation’ – the optimisation and transparent organisation of all business processes and the development of new business models in accordance with

Industry 4.0 and the Internet of Things. The findings and processes are expected to be transferred to other KBA business units at a later date.KBA opted for the flexible Salesforce software platform in order to implement these changes. This internationally widespread CRM solution successful in many industries supports digital business transformation, offers practical mobile services and analysing tools, and can be expanded further at any time. The almost

200-year-old press manufacturer thus uses well-known technology from the social media sphere, e.g. for internal business communicat ion. The experts from Salesforce were so amazed by KBA’s approach to digital business t ran s fo rmat ion that they invited K B A - S h e e t f e d Solutions to their p r e s e n t a t i o n in front of over 4,000 p a r t i c i p a n t s on July 2 in

Munich as part of the Salesforce World Tour. Managing director Ralf Sammeck, CIO Jürgen Tuffentsammer and head of sheetfed marketing Thomas Göcke presented the digitally linked cooperation between sales and service in the sheetfed segment with keynotes, interviews, videos and a presentation.

During his keynote speech in Munich, Marc Benioff, chairman and CEO of Salesforce, named KBA as “the most exciting company that I’ve seen on my trip this year”. Ralf Sammeck (r), managing director of KBA-Sheetfed Solutions, views the digital business transformation as an important tool for understanding users even better.

KBA-Sheetfed SolutionS on the pAth to the “internet of thingS”

iB intelligently AdoptS preSSline priMA-30

India’s premier intelligence agency Intelligence Bureau (IB) has chosen Pressline PRIMA 30 to print its highly

important state documents. The agency wisely selected the press, which features with Auto Ink Systems and capable to print huge number of documents in a continuous feed of ink. The machine also features auto register and auto gluing which in turn avoid the requirements to pin the copies. Apart from IR dryer, the agency has procured stacker bundler for ease of storage. The folder is further attached with a sheeter for signatures required in sheet forms.Pressline PRIMA 30 itself consists of auto reel stand, two of 2-Hi towers positioned in a compact location and sits gracefully on a kota stone flooring. For Pressline India, the sole manufacturer of this versatile and indigenous press, this installation is indeed a milestone marking the company’s 25th

anniversary celebrated this year in a big way for being one of the widely acclaimed Indian web offset manufacturers. The company is now proud to have made its mark as a partner in ‘MAKE IN INDIA - MADE IN INDIA’ concept.

The members of the Offset Printers’ Association (OPA) condemned the proposal of the Government of Punjab

indicating all the factories registered under the Factories Act, 1948 and shops and commercial establishments registered under the Punjab Shops and Commercial Establishment Act, 1958 to pay the wages to the employees either by cheque or directly transferring them online in the bank accounts. According to Kamal Chopra, general secretary, OPA, it is not practical, because unskilled and semiskilled workers will have

pAyMent of wAgeS through chequeS MAy prove fAtAl for the induStry of punjAB

to visit the banks regularly during duty hours which at the one end will hamper the production and on the other will affect the salary of the employee also. Besides, there is already acute shortage of

workers and industry is on the verge of collapse, this notification can prove to be another disaster.

Print World will open its doors on November 19-

21, 2016 in downtown Toronto. The event will welcome more than 200 exhibitors (300 companies) to 1,25,000 sq ft of space at Toronto’s premiere show facility, the Direct Energy Centre on the Exhibition Place grounds. More than 6,000 industry representatives attended the last show and are expected again at Print World 2016.The 2016 edition of Print World will be the first opportunity for visitors from Canada and the Northeastern US to see first-hand all the new product and technology releases from drupa 2016.Several attractions and an exciting conference schedule will also form part of the show. The conference will include high-profile keynote speakers, and several seminars from leading industry experts on a variety of management and technology topics.Print World takes place in downtown Toronto, Canada’s largest metropolitan area (five million+) and the heart of the Canadian printing market. It boasts more printers per capita than anywhere else in North America.

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In a sheer attempt to foster the colour printing market in India, Canon India

recently announced the launch of new range of A3 and A4 colour Multi-function Devices (MFDs). The new products launched in the A3 segment are ImageRUNNER ADVANCE (iR-ADV) C3300 series comprising iR-ADV C3320/C3325/C3330 and ImageRUNNER ADVANCE C350i in A4 segment, deliver high quality output, low maintenance cost and enhanced media handling upto 300gsm paper with A3 plus paper size. With this launch Canon is poised to expand horizons into commercial sector (particularly copy shops). Kazutada Kobayashi, president and CEO, Canon India Pvt Ltd said, “Innovation has always been a driving force at Canon and our new series of colour MFDs reflect our commitment towards offering world-class technology.” K Bhaskhar, VP - Business

Canon IndIa launChes MFds For young entrepreneurs

Imaging Solutions Division, Canon India remarked, “In India, we currently have a market share of 26.8 percent in A3 colour

segment and with the latest addition to the colour MFD series, we are expecting to gain an additional market share.”

International industrial partner and supplier for the printing industry

ContiTech has acquired the German sleeve and roller manufacturer TEGU Walzen und Sleeves GmbH based in Waltershausen. "With this strategic step, we are continuing to expand our product portfolio for print shops while simultaneously completing our existing product range in the growing market for flexographic printing plates. This will enable us to respond even more effectively to customer requirements in the future,” says Dr Peter Scholtissek, head of the Elastomer Coatings business unit, explaining this strategic step and adding: “All 23

ContIteCh expands produCt portFolIo For prIntIng Industry

employees will be retained and thus become part of our successful ContiTech location in Waltershausen.”TEGU boasts more than 80 years of experience in the industrial processing of elastomer materials – particularly sleeves, which have been produced since 1994. In the printing industry, they are used in the field of flexographic printing for continuous printing, in the packaging industry for example. TEGU Walzen also manufactures products for industrial

applications. As a leading manufacturer and supplier of offset and digital printing blankets, ContiTech has been active with CONTI Laserline flexographic

printing plates since 2012."ContiTech and TEGU have been working together successfully for two years already. In the future, we want to work together to continue developing this line of business and to drive it forward on an international level. We are pleased that in Olaf Schaller, the former general manager and sales manager, we have a proven expert and specialist in this field on board,” adds Stefan Füllgraf, who is responsible for flexographic printing plates at ContiTech.


Vijayawada’s JC Graphics has been awarded the distinction of being the first Indian print shop to be

certified as per ISO – 12647-2(2013 version) Printing standards. The prestigious certification was bestowed by Heidelberg Druckmaschinen AG, Germany, the leading offset printing press manufacturer in the world, at an official event organised at JC Graphics’ printing unit at Vijayawada. Klaus Nielsen, managing director-Heidelberg India handed the ISO certificate to Ratnakar Hegde, the chairman and founder of JC Graphics.The ISO12647-2 certification sets the bars high and places higher demands on the excellence of print output. Quality-conscious print buyers are increasingly looking for print providers with ISO certification, which guarantees accountable quality control and consistency.Heidelberg conferred the certification as per ISO 12647–2 standards, after several rigorous rounds of tests on prepress, press and production, including print run on various substrates, dot-gain calibration and consistency of delta-E values. The ISO 12647–2 certification ensures that there is no compromise on the excellence of quality. Heidelberg has already certified 150 print shops worldwide with ISO 12647-2.Upon receiving the certification, Ratnakar Hegde, commented, “It’s truly overwhelming to be the first print shop in India to receive the printing standard certification. The award will reinforce our mission to deliver quality print products to our customers. We appreciate and thank the Heidelberg India team for helping us achieve this remarkable milestone in our print journey”.Vemula Chakrapani, regional sales manager for Telangana Andhra Pradesh said, “JC Graphics expressed interest in ISO certification, at the time of installing the Speedmaster CD 102. Our service team

First indian print shop receives iso 12647-2 certiFication From heidelberg

worked towards that goal and achieved prescribed ISO standards”. Ganesh kumar, senior manager of Heidelberg India, and India’s first FOGRA partner and certified colour consultant who worked closely with JC Graphics on this project says, “Achieving the ISO certification is an educational experience. Like any great accomplishment, it entails a lot of hard work. The challenge is to print 4,000 sheets, and check every 400th sheet for an array of parameters including colour deviation, tonal value and ink spread.”On this gracious occasion, JC Graphics and Heidelberg India, jointly organised an open house to showcase the Speedmaster CD 102 six-color UV press with coating unit, a recent acquisition by JC Graphics

and the first-ever installation in Andhra Pradesh. The demo included print jobs on various substrates to educate the participants on the prowess of the CD 102. The presentation was followed by a seminar on ‘ISO standards’ by Heidelberg India. The event witnessed participation from about 80 fellow printers and print buyers.Karunakar Thiyagaraj, JC Graphics, concluded, “The ISO 12647-2 certification is quality assurance to the print buyer. It is a guarantee that the print shop produces quality print products with ISO standards. In short, it is an authentic authorization to print. We are equally proud of installing the first-ever Heidelberg Speedmaster CD 102 in Andhra Pradesh at our plant in Vijayawada with ISO-12647-2 standards.”

Vemula Chakrapani, regional sales manager -Heidelberg India, Dinakar Thiyagaraj of JC Graphics, Ratnakar Hegde, chairman JC Graphics, Klaus Nielsen – managing director, Heidelberg India, and Karunkar Thiyagaraj of JC Graphics

Speciality Graphic Imaging Association (SGIA) has recognised PRS Permacel Private Limited with Sustainability

Award 2015 for demonstrating excellence in business and environmental sustainability. PRS Permacel Private Limited has successfully reduced its environmental footprint according to Marcia Y. Kinter, vice president, SGIA who presented this award.As a part of Sustainability Policy, targets were set for continuous improvements in areas like power saving, enhance usability, eco efficiency, bio-diversity and employee care and development. Implementation of this policy has resulted in increased economic savings, adoption of environment friendly practices, reduced consumption of electricity, paper, fuel and water and conscious living and consumption.

prs permacel private limited awarded by sgia withsustainability award 2015

“We are proud and pleased to receive this award from an esteemed body like SGIA and will continue with our efforts in reducing the environmental footprints in years to come,” said Nityanand Shenoy, president & managing director, PRS Permacel Private Limited. With over 62 years of rich experience in serving the Indian industry, PRS Permacel offers customer-specific solutions in the chosen segments of insulation, identification, aesthetic enhancements, brand building and protection through its various strategic business units. PRS Permacel currently has its corporate headquarter in Mumbai, India and a state-of-the-art, green field manufacturing facility based at Ambernath (approximately 60 KM North of

Mumbai) in Maharashtra.SGIA is an association supporting leaders in digital and screen printing industry all over the world based in Fairfax, Virginia.


Chairman of Sakal media honoured with PunyabhuShan award

Pranab Mukherjee, the president of India, presented the Punyabhushan Award to the veteran media

personality Pratap Pawar, the chairman of Sakal Media Group recently at a function in Pune. The ‘Punyabhushan’ is awarded every year to an eminent personality from the field of arts, music, culture, science, industry, social service and sports by Punyabhushan Foundation. The foundation was established in 1989 with a view to express a profound gratitude towards the citizens of Pune who have made an exceptional contribution to the national and international forums and transformed Pune city into conspicuous place on the map of India and the world. The president congratulated Pawar for being the recipient of the Punyabhushan Award this year and appreciated his contributions to the Indian media through Sakal and to the region’s industrial development and social activities. He said, “Last year, as the president of India, I had the privilege of conferring ‘Padmashri’ on Pratap Pawar to recognise his contribution in various areas of public

service. Through Sakal he has played a major role in educating and awakening the masses.” The president said that media plays a very important role in our democracy. It helps in creation of an awakening amongst the vast multitude of masses through dissemination of information. It helps shape ideas and opinions. He further said the media as a whole not only keeps people informed but also performs a very crucial function of presenting ideas and alternatives in the domain of policy formulation and implementation. The media space thus becomes an important component in the fabric of a functional democracy by not merely reporting the ‘dialogue of democracy’ but also by taking

an active part in that dialogue. He also appreciated the work of ‘Tridal’, (Pune) to commemorate the memory of the great trio of the country’s freedom struggle — Shahid Bhagat Singh, Sukhdeo and Rajguru. He remarked that the rich tradition and heritage of the city of Pune are an inspiration to the whole nation.

EXHIBITIONS AROUND THE WORLD

1. Pack Print International 2015 August 26-29, 2015 Bangkok, Thailand www.pack-print.de

2. IGAS September 11-16, 2015 Tokyo, Japan www.igas-tokyo.jp

3. SmartCard Expo 2015 September 22-24, 2015 New Delhi, India www.smartcardsexpo.com

4. Label Expo Europe 2015 Sep 29-Oct 02, 2015 Brussels, Belgium www.labelexpo-europe.com

5. World Publishing Expo October 5-7, 2015 Hamburg, Germany www.wan-ifra.org

6. IndiaCorr Expo– SinoCorrugated 2015 October 06-08, 2015 India Expo Mart, Delhi- NCR, India www.indiacorrexpo.com

7. Frankfurt Book Fair 2015 October 14-18, 2015 Frankfurt, Germany| www.buchmesse.de

8. Paperex 2015 November 01-04, 2014 New Delhi, India http://india.paperex-expo.com

9. Sharjah International Book Fair 2015 November 4-14, 2015 Sharjah, UAE www.sharjahbookfair.com

10. Shanghai World of Packaging November 17-20, 2015 Shanghai, China www.swop-online.cn

11. Pamex 2015 December 9-12, 2015 BEC, Goregaon, Mumbai (India) www.pamex.in

12. PackPlus South 2016 March 02-05, 2016 HITEX Hyderabad, India www.packplus.in

13. drupa 2016 May 31-June 10, 2016 Dusseldorf, Germany www.drupa.com

14. All in Print China October 18-21, 2016 Shanghai, China www.allinprint.com

15. Emballage 2016 November 14-17, 2016 Paris, France www.all4pack.com

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