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The new body for AIFMP 2015-16 has been elected and Shyamal Chandra Basu is the new president. In a brief

chat with our team, he shares his views on the printing industry and the upcoming PAMEX. Excerpts.

Congratulations on being the AIFMP president. As the president of AIFMP, what would be your key focus areas?

Basu: Thanks from core of our heart from Team AIFMP 2015-16. Today, root of our entire problem is shortage of job, which causes unhealthy competition among us. Our team’s main focus will be Export Promotion as well as reduction of imported printing materials. There is a huge scope of printing job from abroad. Our printer friends are now well equipped with modern technology, machinery and equipments. It is a continuous process, I am sure our Team will do needful so that in near future Indian printer will do big business in abroad. Our honourable prime minister dream "Make in India" will be fulfilled.

What is the future of the printing industry in general and Indian printing industry in particular?

Basu: Though there is a threat to printing industry due to online channels like e-mail, Facebook, e-book, etc, but

print industry has sustained despite all odds. Considering day to day increasing literate people in India and per capita consumption of paper, in India, the demand of printing will increase for coming five to seven years. I can say in near future printing industry will grow in good ratio in India.

What according to you are the strengths and weaknesses of the Indian printing industry?

Basu: In my view, the most positive sign in our industry is more educated young generation joining the printing industry. They are very much capable of adopting the modern technology. While, the shortage of technically skilled manpower is the most disadvantage for adopting new technology. Previously experienced people were running the unit. Nowadays educated technically competent persons are a must behind the machines and equipments.

AIFMP has to take a vital role for developing educated, technically sound workforce for our printing industry. Our

team also has some positive proposal throughout India. We will place our proposal in forthcoming GC meeting in Mumbai as it is also a continuous process of work. The industry is looking up at PAMEX in Mumbai. What are your views on the upcoming PAMEX and how important is it for the industry?

Basu: PAMEX is the trendsetter in India as like drupa on international level.

This time, PAMEX will be biggest in terms of number of national and international exhibitors, sq m booking (live demo of modern machineries, equipments and consumable) and most important aspect for any exhibition footfall from length and breadth of India. PAMEX Core Committee and co- organiser have given their utmost effort for success of PAMEX 2015. We are trying visitor promotion in every part of India through our 70 affiliates & core committee.Any message for our readers....

Basu: Please come with written enquiry in PAMEX as you will get all sorts of answers in every field of printing industry. I have a suggestion please make some time for other fields also as you may get some additional benefits to your customer, excluding your existing field of action.

“PAMEX is a trendsetter in India”Says Shyamal Chandra Basu, president, AIFMP as a message to all visitors to the upcoming PAMEX 2015 in Mumbai.

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EvEnT SpECialPAMEX Roadshow creates mass interest at Nashik

A roadshow campaign was organised in Nashik, which brought 150 printers from the area under one roof. The event held on October 9, 2015, initiated discussions on

latest innovations and developments from the Indian printing industry. A sneak peek into the special features at Pamex Exhibition was also provided. The event generated mass interest in visiting Pamex.

The Zonal Contact Programme took off to a flying start at Kochi on October 10, 2015, with over 125 printers attending the road show and avidly following the happenings at the upcoming event. The event was jointly organised by Kerela Master Printers’ Association (KMPA) and The Kerela Printers’ Association (KPA). HP contributed with an excellent presentation in

the Knowledge seminar.

Pamex gets another high with Puducherry grassroot programme

Pondicherry Offset Printers Society, under the guidance of AMSG Ashokan (AIFPM) and Udayakumar Ramachandran (SIPA), conducted the Pamex roadshow at Puducherry on

October 18, 2015. The event starting from Seerkali and covering Chidambaram, Cuddalore, Villupuram and Thindivanam reached a large group of printers from the area and was attended by 150 delegates from the region.

Kochi portends a tremendous interest in PAMEX

EvEnT SpECialNagpur gets an insightful experience with PAMEX grassroot Tour!

Pamex 2015 Road Show at Nagpur was organized by Printers’ Guild, Nagpur on October 24, 2015 at Hotel Hardeo, Nagpur. Tushar Dhote, MMS President & PAMEX

Co-Chairman, helped the audience with a preview of the December event, justifying the PAMEX 2015 theme ‘Maximum City - Maximum Opportunities.’ Abhijeet Kolhatkar from Provin Technologies and Moses Kumar & Shrikant Band from Technova shared technical presentations at the event. Another highlight was the insightful presentation by Ashok Philip, HP on printing technologies.

Pamex reaches printers of Akola

The Maharashtra Grassroot Contact Programme was held in Akola on October 25, 2015. Besides talking technical on the latest innovations in the Indian printing industry, the event

also disseminated information on the upcoming Pamex Exhibition. A preview of the special attractions at the exhibition was also presented by the organisers.

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pAMEX comes at an appropriate time as we are in the cusp of economy, which is coming back to the growth

path. It is very visible with the interest that has been slightly brought down by the banks and the lending power is more. Consumerism is back and we just saw the greatest online sales, which was a huge success. People are spending money and these growth signs are also fuelling the print economy,” shares Puneet Datta, director of Professional Printing Products Group, Canon India.

“Thus, PAMEX will help printing industry to showcase new solutions or new products to the west and there will be lot of visitors from the southern and northern regions, where the market is big. Infact, the west has almost 30% of the India’s printing economy. We are looking at entrepreneurship coming up. West has always been the fertile ground for printing hubs, and now they are not just confined to central Mumbai but are also expanding to other regions and going for larger infrastructure. There seems to be a tremendous growth in population as well, thereby increasing the scope of the industry,” he adds optimistically.

Talking about their participation at PAMEX, Puneet shares that they have increased their stall (E20), space that’s courtesy the timing. “We are upbeat about this exhibition. We will showcase the whole length and breadth of Canon solutions, right from commercial printing to wide format to Dreamlabo albums, which has created a buzz in the industry. We are also utilizing this platform to launch some new products in the commercial printing segment. The newly launched wide format products will also be a part of the display,” he adds.

On asking about the solutions to be showcased at the fair, he replies that they will showcase web-to-print solutions,

p e r s o n a l i z a t i o n , applications on high speed machines like transactional/direct mail and specialised a p p l i c a t i o n s , e s p e c i a l l y formulated for

PAMEX. He talked about application for schools where digital printing can be used for various collaterals like progress cards on untearable paper, bookmarks, I-cards, personalized diaries, certificates, table top calendars, name slips, etc. “These applications are there but it is how to bring printers to make use of these applications, is what we are targeting at. This helps build a brand value to a school, besides giving enough job for the digital printer. We also looking at new segments where digital printing can be used,” he adds. He also cited another example of health cards/medical reports to be printed in non-tearable paper in hospitals for cross-reference at later stage.

Another important point that Puneet mentioned was that they are planning to work on their project ‘Demystify the dynamics of digital printing.’ “Everyone knows that the future is digital but offset printers are still wary of it. They rather outsource it as they have their hands full and they are skeptical to bring new machines which needs new people to run them. This is because finishing in digital is different. Here, PUR is used for binding as sewing is very costly in digital. So, how do you demystify digital printing. We have built a small ROI for short-runs as well. Here, we are specifically focusing on black-and-white as for the commercial printers, it is the next step. Later, we will

do it for colour as well,” he shares. “We are not trying to conjure up something digital, but will like to simplify digital

printing. This will be knowledge-sharing activity and create differentiation towards digital printing. Offset will continue to grow in India, despite all odds but digital will complement offset but portion of digital will significantly increase as new applications will come in.”

He also shares that a research in Europe shows that almost 50% of offset printers with digital printing recorded significant increase in revenue due to value-added service. While, traditional printers who did not go for digital printing recorded a decline in revenue. “So, embracing digital is the future. It’s not a question of should I do it, the question is when do I do it,” he shares.

On asking about the growth in the digital printing segment, Puneet shares that placement of hardware in digital colour printing is growing at 10-15%.Wide format is gaining shape, inkjet acqueous rammed up market share from 9% to 17%. “Wide format is getting eco-conscious and UV flatbed is not only eco-friendly but also very creative. The inkjet acqueous will also see a huge demand in both print volumes as well as hardware sales. Print volumes are increasing as retail signages are increasing as offers keep on changing pretty soon. There are frequent sales and retail signages are a biggest draw. As the fight between online and brick-and-mortar shops continue, retail signages will play a bigger role, he opines.

“On the production printing side, we see a momentum in transactional printing which is fuelled by e-governance initiatives like UID project. Direct mail is coming back to hard paper. This is because every day we receive 10-15 EDMs (electronic document management) but time is getting shorter and subject line is important. Thus, many times the information goes unnoticed. But, when you receive a mailer on paper, you are bound to take a glimpse at it. Thus, more and more marketers are realizing to decluttering themselves from mobile and desktop. This trend has already started in Europe and it has started with a few customers in India as well. The idea is innovation in direct mails.. Thus, the overall perspective of print is positive and we are looking at how digital can be used by PSPs to add value to their prints,” concludes Puneet on a happy note.

Embracing digital is the future!At PAMEX, Canon will not only showcase the complete range of their products and launch new products in commercial printing, they will also help demystify the dynamics of digital printing. Here, Puneet Datta, director of Professional Printing Products Group, Canon shares more about their participation.

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autoprint recently conducted a seminar - ‘Packaging - Kal Aaj Aur Kal,’ in Dehradun along with Huber

group, formerly known as - Micro Inks. The seminar is in continuation of the Utsav 1 0 , 0 0 0 celebrations of Autoprint, who have surpassed an instal lat ion base of 10,000 machines within a short span of 20 years. This seminar was mainly for the packaging industry printers and focused on the quality of packaging to attract customers.

Naresh Bharadwaj, sr. manager of Autoprint, introduced Autoprint to the delegates along with photographs of the range of Autoprint products designed especially for the packaging industry. This was followed by an introduction of Huber and their ink technology by Rajeev

Ranjan, DGM North of the Huber Group. A case study of pharma packaging

with a video and power point presentation by Sanjeev Popli, representing Popli

Graphics, the business associate for Autoprint in Northern states of India, based in Delhi, was well appreciated and to a group of 30 participants were enlightened of the need for Automation in the post press activities.

While, Prasanta Sarkar, GM - technical, Huber & B R Tamboli, DGM - UV Division from Huber group gave the global development in Inks related to packaging.

Visit Autoprint in hall 1, Stall G10, paMEx’15.

Konica Minolta Business Solutions India Pvt. Ltd., a leader in digital printing, organised a one

day colour management Workshop, which was held at Konica Minolta’s Ahmedabad office on September 15, 2015 and Gurgaon office on September 18, 2015. It was organised by a group of professionals from Konica Minolta and Colour Mechanics (colour management consultant).

The workshop was conducted to enhance the knowledge on the Color Management on the Digital Devices. The p r o g r a m m e covered all the aspects from the designing, pre-press, printing and post printing process in terms of colour management. The aim of the programme was to share how the customers can achieve the effective standardised colours on the digital printing device, how the customers can achieve the consistency in their device etc?

The programme was a combination of theory & practical, the customers were encouraged to bring their files and simulated the environment to check for the challenges and how to overcome the same and how to achieve right colour from the Konica Minolta Printers. The customers who attended the workshop were PP customers of graphic art, commercial whereas photo lab printers much appreciated the initiative. The workshop was conducted by the Certified experts in Color Management.

Visit Konica Minolta in hall 1, Stall D21, paMEx’15.

Colour management workshops at Ahmedabad and Gurgaon

Fujifilm’s Acuity LED 1600 is designed to print direct to most rigid and flexible packaging and display materials. Since

it uses LED UV curing ink technology, prints are instantly dry and ready to be cut, scored and folded.

With a six colour ink set, plus clear and white ink, the Acuity LED 1600 can produce high quality prints with accurate spot colours, special effects on clear and coloured materials and spot varnishes in a single pass.

Used in combination with an Esko Kongsberg flatbed cutter, also available from Fujifilm, you can quickly produce realistic prototypes which are close to the final packaging job. Powered by Fujifilm’s leading printhead and ink technologies previously only available in high end digital flatbeds, the Acuity LED 1600 is a versatile, state-of-the-art roll-fed printer that will fit into any design or production environment.

Visit Fujifilm in hall 1, Stall K17, paMEx’15.

Acuity LED 1600: the new standard in creative print

EFI@PAMEX

EFI’s first exhibit at PAMEX (hall 1, Stall D10) comes in response to the tremendous momentum EFI

customers are seeing in India. EFI will be showcasing a full flag of solutions from Fiery to Inkjet to EPS (Enterprise Productivity Suite). The solutions that will be showcased for the first time at PAMEX in EFI booth will include EFI Radius, EFI DirectSmile, EFI DSF (Digital StoreFront) and EFI Pace in the EPS/MIS category. Also on display will be EFI Matan Industrial leading 3 meter Superwide format roll-to-roll and hybrid printer. After the recent acquisition of Matan, this will be the first time in Asia Pacific that EFI will be showing EFI Matan printer. EFI H1625 LED (curing) Wide format printer will also be on display. The company will also showcase EFI Fiery (CWS) Command Workstation, EFI Fiery Workflow Suite and EFI Fiery (CPS) Color Profiler Suite.

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At PAMEX, Zhongke India PvtLtd will showcase a complete line of rigid box-making solution, which

will include a fully-automatic rigid box making machine, automatic grooving and corner-cutting machine, dry lamination machine, casemaker and automatic book-like box assembling machine.Fully automatic rigid box making machine

The company will display Zhongke ZK-660 ANP, a fully automatic rigid box making machine. “It is useful for rigid set-up boxes such as shoe-box, shirt box, underwear box, gift box, food box, hardware box etc. It adopts PLC programmable controller, photoelectric tracing system, touch-sensitive screen, achieving paper feeding, gluing, cardboard folding, spotting, automatic arm guiding, wrapping, and box coming out in one process. The entire processes are automatic. Compared with the traditional handmade production, the produce efficiency improves by 50 times,” told Rohit Rajpal of Zhongke India. Its feeding system feeds the paper wrap piece by piece automatically. Equipped with heat exchanging Gluing system, its Heat Sealed device equipped achieves corner sticking for cardboard in one process. While, the Spotter system achieves exactly position for unwrapped box and glued wrap by servomotor and vacuum suction belt conveyor, with precision error 0.5mm.

Telling more about Zhongke Packaging Machinery Co, Rohit shared that the company started in 2002 in China and they have invented their own machines with advanced features. “We have already shipped seven machines in India, of which two or three might even be installed before PAMEX,” he shared. On asking about the after sales service, Rohit replied that since their company is a 50% partnership company with Zhongke Packaging Machinery Co, they have full support from them in terms of Chinese engineers. “We have marked four cities – Bangalore, Mumbai, Kolkata and New Delhi – where we will have our sale and service staff, both electrical as well as mechanical. Our Bangalore centre is already operational and

ExhiBiTorS’ nEwSComplete rigid box making solution @ PAMEXat paMEx, visitors can see a complete line of rigid box making solution at the stand of Zhongke india private ltd (E50). here, rohit rajpal of Zhongke india private limited shares more about this unique solution.

two machines are set to be installed soon,” told Rohit. Besides, they are bringing in operators directly from China, which can be employed by the printers installing these machines. A demo centre in their office in Noida is also on the cards.automatic grooving and corner-cutting machine

The company will also showcase

ZDJ-1000 Automatic Plate-type Grooving Machine from Jinggang, which adopts PLC control, featuring in simple operation. The cardboard feeder is controlled by linear guide line and servo motor, positioning accurately and swiftly. It is equipped with a vacuum pump to keep the cardboard grooved accurately without any movement. In the cardboard feeder, the machine can automatically stop when lack of cardboard to reduce the waste rate. Durable knife, equipped with grinder which makes operation easier. It is suitable for paperboard, corrugated board, cardboard, MDF and other materials etc.Dry lamination machine

Wenzhou Yongshan dry lamination machine YS-S108, a fully automatic high speed chain-blade type film laminator, for slitting many kinds of laminating

films such as OPP and PET, will also be on dispalyCasemaker

The company will also display Wenzhou Keqiang casemaker – ZFM 1000, an automatic case-making machine, which has a unique double-control device,

an effective solution to double sheet.With novel structure and reasonable to the digital device, it can effectively and accurately quickly cardboard composite tissues. automatic book-like box assembling machine

Also on display will be Wenzhou Yongbang FB-1000 automatic book-like box assembling machine.

“This complete solution will be an interesting showcase for all,” concludes Rohit.

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EFI has recently released its Midmarket Productivity Suite, solidifying EFI’s ongoing strategy to deliver end-to-

end, certified, out-of-the-box business and production workflows. Specifically created to promote the continued growth of mid-size printing businesses, the latest Productivity Suite offering is geared to enable new business streams, optimise print production and time-to-market, drive efficiency, improve customer service, and grow bottom line revenue.

New offerings from EFI

imaging solutions & IT services leader Ricoh India Ltd launched RICOH Pro C9100 series for heavy production

segment - a new generation of production oriented, reliable and durable high volume digital presses. These new generation digital production presses are especially suited for large commercial printers and high volume print for pay setups seeking to expand their hybrid digital and offset infrastructure complemented by easy integration into existing operations. The new additions are productive from the first page out and deliver high volume, personalised print runs with fast turnaround times.

Speaking on the occasion, Manoj Kumar, MD & CEO of Ricoh India said, “While technology-led change is driving a new future for the graphic arts market, the necessity to enhance client value and increase customer satisfaction remains at

include uncoated, textured and coated media, plus specialty media such as super-gloss, magnet, metallic, transparent and synthetic.

Print services providers seeking to expand their offerings will also be able to quickly take on a wide range of new commercial applications with the RICOH Pro C9100 series’ capability to print onto uncoated, textured and coated media from 52 gsm to 400 gsm, duplex banner sheet printing up to 700 mm, and even special media such as super-gloss, magnet, metallic, transparent or synthetic. This allows them to easily extend their offering to include light packaging, direct mail, books of all nature, promotional materials, brochures and business cards.

With these new models, Ricoh aims to deliver affordable digital colour production presses that offer productivity, wide media handling capabilities and excellent print quality, breaking down previous cost barriers for clients looking to enter the digital colour production space at these high speeds.

Ricoh India launches high end cut-sheet colour production printers

the fore of every business. We are really excited to launch the RICOH Pro C9100 series of digital production workhorses to help our clients achieve these goals and provide them with new and profitable revenue streams.”

The two new production workhorses Ricoh Pro C9100 and C9110 will help the customers to migrate additional volumes from offset to digital, while also positioning Ricoh in the industrial space. Both devices boast a maximum recommended monthly volume of one million A4 pages, as well as high print speed of 110 ppm and 130 ppm.

Print quality is assured with the inclusion of Ricoh’s enhanced Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Laser (VCSEL) technology, delivering image quality up to 1200 x 4800 dpi. Regardless of paper weights, the Pro C9100 series prints at rated speed, and productivity is further

increased for A3, enabling 75 ppm for A3 or 150 ppm for A4 or equivalent.

Ricoh is offering the new presses with a choice of EFI digital front ends, including the EFI E-43 or the faster E-83 print server. Other new features include air assisted duplex banner printing, up to 700 mm in length, from a bypass feed unit. Compatible substrates

Featuring a true end-to-end, modular software offering, the Midmarket Productivity Suite consists of the award-winning EFI Pace software as the core MIS and an array of market-leading capabilities including marketing automation, eCommerce, Web-to-print, planning, imposition, scheduling, shop floor data collection, fulfillment, warehousing, shipping, and direct integration to JDF-enabled EFI Fiery digital front ends. It delivers, out of the box, 17 certified

workflows that offer business and production automation for commercial, digital and wide format printing as well as fulfillment.

Besides, EFI has released a new colour chart reading spectrophotometer that automates and streamlines the press profiling process in Fiery Driven digital color production printing. The new EFI ES-6000 scanning network spectrophotometer is fully integrated into EFI Fiery digital front end workflows. The EFI ES-6000 can read thousands of colour patches in minutes and accommodates M0, M1 and M2 measurement illumination conditions.

The ES-6000 spectrophotometer, supplied through EFI’s relationship with X-Rite, and EFI Fiery Color Profiler Suite are integrated together to offer next-generation digital print colour measurement.

Visit EFI in hall 1, Stall D10, paMEx’15.

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hP has introduced a new portfolio of HP PageWide XL Printers with the launch of HP PageWide XL

8000 Printer in India, offering the fastest large-format production printing available in colour and black-and-white.

HP PageWide XL Printers do the job of two printers in one single device, providing monochrome and colour prints at breakthrough speeds up to 60 percent faster than the fastest monochrome light-emitting diode (LED) printer. Included as part of the new portfolio, the HP PageWide XL Blueprinters are also designed to deliver more pages of translucent prints, black-and-white prints and digital blueprints with superior quality.

The new printers will enable reprographic houses, print service providers (PSPs), enterprise central reprographic departments (CRDs) and print corners to produce computer-aided design (CAD) drawings and will open new business opportunities with geographic information system (GIS) maps, point-of-sale applications and posters.

“Our large-format printing customers are continually exploring ways to improve productivity, streamline workflow and reduce costs,” said Devang Karia, country manager, Large Format Design, PPS, HP India. “The HP PageWide XL Printers deliver what our customers have been seeking for years and will revolutionise the production printing market, offering affordable, high-quality black-and-white and colour output in a single device at the fastest speeds available.”

HP PageWide XL Printers are the first products introduced under the new HP PageWide sub-brand. Based on proven HP PageWide Technology, which currently powers HP Inkjet Web Presses, HP business printers will be scaled for

upcoming HP 3D Multi Jet Fusion printers, the new portfolio delivers on the announcement made last year, providing low operation costs driven by life-long printheads, high ink efficiency and cloud-based support.

“Changing customer demands have caused us to look for opportunities to address the print needs of new markets, including advertising and communication, in addition to servicing our core customer base of architecture, engineering and construction firms,” said Chuck Wingard, president and owner, Tree Towns Imaging & Color Graphics. “The HP PageWide XL 8000 Printer will enable us to streamline our workflow with one printer for a variety of high-quality black-and-white and colour jobs at high speeds and will fill the gap between our existing technology to better service our diverse customer base.” Streamlining large-format printing workflow increases productivity

The production printing market has traditionally been led by monochrome-only LED printers, requiring customers to also operate large-format inkjet colour printers to address colour jobs. The new printers consolidate workflow to deliver mixed black-and-white and colour prints in half the time it would take to manually collate documents produced on multiple printers. In addition, a full portfolio of scanning and finishing solutions,

including the HP Designjet HD and SD Pro Scanners and new HP PageWide XL Printer accessories, such as the HP PageWide XL online folder, top stacker and high-capacity stacker, enable customers to build efficient end-to end workflows around HP PageWide XL Printers and free up the operator.

HP SmartStream software for HP PageWide XL Printers reduces time spent preparing and processing jobs by 50 percent. It also reduces reprints with native PDF management powered by Adobe PDF Print Engine 3 and offers a true colour print preview with interactive HP Crystal Preview technology to turn operator efficiency into operating profit. new large-format supplies

HP PageWide XL Pigment Inks increase print quality with crisp lines, fine detail and smooth grayscales that are superior to LED prints. HP PageWide XL Pigment Inks also provide dark blacks, vivid colours, and moisture and fade resistance even on uncoated bond paper at high speeds..

New HP large-format printing materials up to 40 inches (1 meter) meet ISO/U.S. technical and offset standard page sizes and provide quick-dry, smear resistant prints. New media to accompany the HP PageWide XL Printer portfolio includes HP Universal Bond Paper for technical applications, HP Production Matte Polypropylene to produce roll-up banners, and HP Production Matte, Gloss, and Satin Poster Papers for point-of-sale applications and poster production.availability

The HP PageWide XL 8000 series printers are available in India. Other devices in the HP PageWide XL portfolio will be made incrementally available between November 2015 and February 2016.

Visit HP in hall 1, Stall E10, paMEx’15.

Efficient colour and monochrome printer in one!–hp launches pagewide xl printers in india

The hp pagewide xl printer portfolio includes: l The HP PageWide XL 8000 Printer offering high-end production printing at

revolutionary speeds up to 30 D/A1-size prints per minute as well as two 775 milliliter ink cartridges per colour with automatic switching and up to six rolls – more than 3,900 feet (1,200 meters) – of media for sustained productivity.

l The HP PageWide XL 8000 and 5000 Blueprinters delivering medium-to-large reprographic houses and enterprise CRDs robust mid-to high-volume production of technical documents, including translucent prints, black-and-white whiteprints and digital blueprints, at up to 800 and 320 A0 pages per hour respectively.

l The HP PageWide XL 5000 Printer and Multi-function Printer (MFP) providing small- to medium-sized reprographic houses and enterprise CRDs mid-volume technical document production at up to 14 D/A1-size prints per minute as well as two 400 milliliter ink cartridges per colour with automatic switching and up to four rolls of media to streamline work.

l The HP PageWide XL 4000 Printer and MFP allowing technical work teams and copy shops to produce 8 D/A1-size prints per minute, helping teams increase on-the-job productivity. A speed upgrade option is also available which can produce up to 12D/A1-size prints per minute.

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Water-washable flexo plates

Fujifilm has recently launched an advanced new water-washable flexo plates, Flenex FW. Label converters can benefit from this high quality and low cost-in-use

flexo plates.Flenex FW is a photopolymer

plate containing a special rubber-based compound that is not oxygen sensitive, minimising the effect oxygen has on the dot shape. As a result, Flenex guarantees reduced dot gain and better ink transfer for cleaner and brighter print results. The plate delivers longer runs for label converters, while producing a consistent 200 lpi at 4,400 dpi. Flenex FW reduces platemaking processing times to less than 40 minutes, three times faster than leading solvent systems and 1.5 times faster than current thermal and water-wash technologies. This enables label businesses to increase the number of plates they can produce in a given time, and also achieve a faster turnaround. Flenex FW eliminates the expense of higher-cost solvent and thermal processors, as well as potential upcharges on associated consumables, and why it represents the lowest cost-in-use flexo plate production system.

Compatible with the leading flexo platesetters and water-wash processors, the Flenex FW plate will be part of an integrated production environment, which will also include a dedicated label workflow solution.

Visit Fujifilm in hall 1, Stall K17, paMEx’15

Gayathri Machineries (hall 1, Stall D03, paMEx’15) is launching the following products at Pamex:

Eyeletting Machines from Hang, Germany (Manual, Electric and Automatic Eyeletting Machines) and Paper Drilling Machines from Nagel, Germany (Single Hole, Multiple Hole Paper Drilling Machines).

Meanwhile, the company has also installed Hohner Wire Stitching Machines (imported from Germany) at Rajams Digital, Chennai; Vipul Printers, Nagpur; Upkar Prakasham, Agra; Darpan Publication, Siliguri; and Menaka Cards, Tirunelveli.

Grover Industries will be displaying the new and improved Wire Payoff system. The payoff system along with the 40 Kg spools of Grover Stitching wire can help

reduce production downtimes of any automatic stitcher by atleast 15 hours a month.

New launches@PAMEX

Modular Infotech Private Limited (Stall K 39, hall 1, paMEx 2015) will offer multilingual software

for different verticals like newspapers, publisher, TV channels, DTP operators etc. Their customer list has many prestigious names like Google, Microsoft, Red Hat, ISKCON, Oxford University Press, Anand Bazar Patrika, Deccan Herald and Dinamalar.

The company also offers font library with more than 3500 attractive fonts, including TTF, Unicode and Bitmap fonts, besides offering customization of existing fonts. They also provide services

of scanning and digitisation of old manuscripts, documents, books.

Modular Infotech is also very active in developing software and devices in assistive technology for disabled. Shree-Lipi Braille and Braille-Mitra are being used by number of visually impaired people across the country. Shree-Lipi Braille Software converts data composed in various Indian languages to Braille. These converted books can be read by using Braille-Mitra which can store 4000 books. They have also come up with new and innovative idea of Digital Braille Library.

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hP Indigo at Labelexpo 2015 s h o w c a s e d

labels and packaging portfolio innovation, including new product features and upgrade packages, software enhancements for mass customization as well as new financing options. These new innovations allow more customers to capitalize on the growing digital opportunity in a market where they are already achieving 30 percent page growth year over year.

“With mounting pressure from brands to deliver differentiated, high-quality labels and packaging at faster and faster turnaround times, converters and PSPs are constantly looking for new avenues for growth and expansion,” said Alon Bar-Shany, vice president and general manager, Indigo Division, HP. “New HP Indigo cross-portfolio innovations, including breakthrough color management and higher productivity and versatility, allow our customers to remain a step ahead of the market, time and time again. ”

HP demonstrated new HP Indigo WS6800 Digital Press innovations, boosting color capabilities and productivity. New features includecolor Automation Package, a new, best-in-class digital color matching solution that uses the press’ inline spectrophotometer and new HP Indigo Labels & Packaging Print Server capabilities powered by Esko, offering converters a quick and easy process to match brand spot colors from the first label to the last. Labelexpo attendees had the opportunity to test this new colour solution as part of a “color challenge” held in HP’s booth.

The first dedicated digital presses designed for packaging converters, HP Indigo 20000 and 30000 Digital Presses have reached 70 units sold worldwide since 2014 commercial availability, with six customers installing multiple presses.

Visit HP Indigo in hall 1, Stall E10, E04 paMEx’15.

HP Indigo showcases labels and packaging innovation at Labelexpo 2015

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Live demo of Lombardi Synchroline & Vinsak LSR - Open House at A&A Labels, Gurgaon showcases the world of possibilities with Lombardi Synchroline

vINSAK hosted an Open House at A&A Labels, Gurgaon, India to officially introduce the Lombardi

Synchroline Flexo press. Synchroline is the last generation press of Lombardi Company with its widest application, flexibility and smart electronics. This universal press has been designed for facing all the challenges of label & packaging industry. The machine is suited to label production, packaging and general substrate printing with its servo motor technology and its high-tech software features which allows to print without

any limitation on the kind of different substrates like BOPP, PVC, PE, PET, Paper, adhesive paper, board, coupled board material etc. The high level of atomisation allow to reduce to the minimum the skills of operator, material waste, set up time & still offering the highest print quality in a Flexo system.

According to Anubhav Jain of A&A Labels, he had seen the machine in Italy in January 2015 and in the first week of June, they installed the Lombardi. They wish to convert 5 lac sq m per month with this machine. “Even if we reach 3 lac sq m per

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month, it is worth it,” he said. At present, A&A Labels is converting 3-4 lac sq m per month.

While, Saurabh Jain added, “At present, our turnover caters to 25 percent liquids, 40 percent pharmaceuticals, 25 percent cosmetics and 25 percent miscellaneous jobs. With this machine, we can cater to even wider range of customers. Since this is a 17” wide machine, the wastage is less and quality is better. The online support is brilliant for this machine.”

At the occasion, Massimo Lombardi of Lombardi remarked, “This is our first installation in India, the market is looking for high-quality solution. India is a market with attitude as they are technology-oriented but at the same time look for high quality at competitive pricing. Lombardi can give value addition, service and customer support. Creed Engineers is our dealer for India, Emirates and central African countries.” As a message to Indian printers and converters, he said, “Never stop looking for technology. Even in crisis, invest in new technology. If you stop, you die.”

The universal press of Lombardi Company was presented along-side the VINSAK LSR range of Slitter rewinders with 100 percent defect detection systems. The event gave a unique opportunity to Indian printers and converters to see the equipment performing in Indian conditions and also the entire workflow for the narrow web industry. The open house was followed by a seminar where all the aspects of flexo for packaging were discussed including pre-press, press, post press and special applications and an interactive panel discussion to discuss the current and future market trends in India.

Visit Vinsak in hall 1, Stall h02, paMEx’15.

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a glimpse of the print Summit 2015

print Summit 2016, a full day knowledge seminar on the theme Ten Commandments,

will be held on January 29, 2016 at Tata Theatre, NCPA, Mumbai. Organised by Bombay Master Printers Association (BMPA), this annual event is a unique effort to commemorate Printers' Day, a tribute to Johannes Gutenberg – the German innovator whose invention, the movable type, revolutionised mass printing. This will be the 10th BMPA’s Print Summit.

The BMPA is steadfast in its goal to construct an agenda that consolidates the progress made over every past Print Summit edition rendered since 2005 and turn it into a celebration of Print and Communication. They desire to make the Key Note address more conspicuous and build content that resonates and heralds the changes that are shaping our industry - challenging it and redefining its relevance.

Some of the speakers at bygone Print Summits included: Ajay Piramal, Kishore Biyani, Yoshiharu Komori, Ashish Hemrajani, Arnab Goswami, B S Nagesh, Vir Sanghvi, Pranav Parikh, Prof. Boman Moradian, Prof. V K Murti, Prof. Parimal Merchant, Prof Samsih Dalal, (Lt) Prof Rooshikumar Pandya, Radhakrishna Pillai, Steven Schnoll, Anthony Stanton, Prof. Dr. Rajendrakumar Anayath, P Narendra, Prof. Dr Eduard Neufeld, Santosh Nair and more.

The audience at upcoming Print Summit will include businesses from commercial printing, package printing, labels, POP-POS, wide format printing, on-demand

printing, corrugation, creative industry and ad agency. Personalities attending the conference are largely owners, decision makers, technologists, shop floor personnel, marketeers, designers and IT & admin folks.

BMPA is committed to improve the quality of life for the print community and it aims to be a pre-eminent organization in developing co-operation amongst print industry stake holders. It also aims to provide know-how on state-of-the-art print technology, education and related matters; to develop business leaders, technocrats and entrepreneurs and to encourage and recognise excellence in printing.

In this era of cross-technology solutions and a communication cycle that is ultra dynamic; one that is continuously pushing the limits and reinventing the means; the BMPA acknowledges the growing inter-dependence amidst the printing technologies and allied media processes. As a result their membership is broad-based, comprising of firms who are engaged as: print providers,

BMPA Print Summit to turn 10 in 2016

pre-press, pre-media specialists, post-press and converting, packaging printing, agencies; and printers’ suppliers i.e. manufacturers and traders.

BMPA has been serving to the cause of the print industry for the last 60 years and are a proud family of over 500 members from and around Mumbai.

On a national level, the BMPA is well networked with other regional printers' trade associations from all over India; all of whom assemble under the fulcrum organisation: All India Federation of Master Printers - a New Delhi based nodal rep of the printing industry. Presently there are over 55 regional associations from all over India come under the AIFMPs umbrella. Several nominees of the BMPA have served the Federation as its president over the last six decades. At the state (provincial) level the BMPA is similarly affiliated with the Maharashtra Mudran Parishad, which functions as a state level Federation of printers’ association.

a latest generation aluminium coating line at Bobst Italia’s production plant in San Giorgio

Monferrato, ready to be delivered to its new owner in Europe, provided the perfect opportunity for BOBST to hold a major two-day event that would gather in Italy local and international players from the converting industry.

The symposium sessions were held at a conference venue close to Bobst Italia’s facility. BOBST specialists and guest speakers from Taghleef Industries and Actega Rhenania addressed the technical advances and opportunities that the latest coating and drying technologies, substrates and coating formulations offer to meet the challenges faced by today’s converting industry. Detlef Merklinger, head of product line coating for BOBST, welcomed the guests, together with Michele Vitiello, managing director of Bobst Italia. He then introduced

BOBST showcases developments in gravure technology for coating applications

BOBST Business Unit Web-fed and the organization and activities of the Coating Product Line he has been managing within the Business Unit since his appointment in June 2014. BOBST’s core competences in coating are found at Bobst Italia, which is also the Group’s center of excellence for gravure printing, laminating and extrusion coating technologies. The current BOBST range of coating machines reflects the over 50 years of know-how and experience that the company boasts in coating applications and the numerous installations that have been put into operation worldwide since 1960. Detlef Merklinger also introduced the competences of BOBST in terms of technologies that are most relevant for coating lines: winding, coating, drying, laminating, web handling and automation. Besides, attendees could also see the ROTOCOAT aluminium lacquering machine, an impressive double-deck, 45 m long, 8 m high

production line. The machine features three coating stations for direct gravure coating with closed chamber doctor blade and semiflexo coating, along with three dryers which can reach up to 350°C air temperature depending on the application requirements, over a total dryer length of 45 m.

This successful two-day event was the latest opportunity for BOBST to show the scope of its commitment to the development of state-of-the-art solutions for the coating industry.

Visit BOBST India in hall 1, Stall J50, paMEx’15.

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American Industrial Partners (AIP), a middle-market private equity firm focused on acquiring

and improving North American-headquartered industrial businesses, has completed the acquisition of Goss International and its subsidiaries from Shanghai Electric Corporation.

“American Industrial Partners is a like-minded, forward-thinking organisation and we are excited to leverage their industry, operational, and financial expertise to support our culture of innovation and customer collaboration,” said Rick Nichols, CEO of Goss. “In partnership with AIP, we look forward to building on our market leading position and executing a strategic growth plan focused on providing our highly-valued customer base with the highest-quality portfolio of innovative products and aftermarket parts, services and enhancements.”

American Industrial Partners completes acquisition of Goss International

Konica Minolta hall 1, Stall D-21, paMEx’15. has recently launched bizhub C22, developed to handle a

wide range of jobs for the new entry colour market. It is equipped with Konica Minolta’s renowned Emperon Controller and an array of printing functions that enhances affinity with higher-end MFPs, as well as smart mechanisms that reduce noise, weight and size. In addition, it is compatible for access to mobile devices and cloud services. The model provides added benefits through simple and user-friendly scanning functions for a variety of usage environments. Direct printing from and scanning to USB improves efficiency as it eliminates the need for a PC to use the device.

Bizhub C221 delivers outputs of 22 pages per minutes in colour (A4). Two paper cassettes and a manual bypass feeder are standard equipped for a maximum paper feeding, capacity of 1,150 sheets. The upper cassette holds A4 size paper and the lower cassette holds A3 size paper.

Incredibly compact multi-functional A3 colour printer

AIP has a long history of successfully buying industrial businesses and partnering with management to drive growth. “Goss is differentiated by its printing process knowledge, engineering expertise, high-tech industrial manufacturing capabilities and ability to execute and support large-scale capital equipment projects,” said Rick Hoffman of AIP. “Working alongside an exceptional management team at Goss, we look forward to executing identified growth initiatives and driving operational efficiencies at the company to further differentiate Goss from its competitors,” added Sparsh Bhargava of AIP.

Visit SL Kulkarni Cyril Graphics, distributors of Goss International in hall 1, Stall i06, paMEx’15.

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Creating value chain to meet the increasing demands for newer applications among customers,

yarning for advanced technologies, Konica Minolta Business Solutions India has taken on all possible verticals—be it in production, technological solutions, fresh innovations, customer service—covering whole gamut of parameters including education, healthcare and many others. “Now, we have covered all domains, left nothing untouched; look at the eco-system of our existing customers, it includes all, be it graphic art, commercial printing, book printing, photo albums, packaging and others,” says V Balakrishnan. In this, everyone knows Konica Minolta as a manufacturer of measuring instruments for industrial and healthcare applications, inkjet printheads and textile printers for industrial use and related consumables and solution services.

Of the gamut of activities for which Konica Minolta has been known for decades, book printing is one such arena where a number of book publishers across the country are gainfully running KM monochrome presses for the purpose. “In addition to print production, we are now into e-books as well; converting books for e-learning contents,” mentions V Balakrishnan, adding that other allied activities in this domain, which Konica Minolta monochrome machines are engaging include in-house print productions of report cards, question papers and others such documents for schools, colleges and academic institutes. According to Balakrishnan, what Konica Minolta has been leveraging is to add value of digital printing to offset, rather than looking at it as an alternative.new dimension

Unpacked this year during the PRINTPACK INDIA 2015 expo, Konica Minolta’s landmark introduction of JET

Varnish 3D (from MGI Digital Graphics) to the Indian market has opened up a new paradigm shift in spot varnishing, adding highly allured 3D effects on digital prints and allowing to varnish upto 2298 A3 pages per hour. Saving time and cost, this digital solution application can be prepared on demand as well. “Of course, this UV spot varnishing machine lends a big opportunity to the packaging segment as well,” explains Balakrishnan.

Balakrishnan further details the machine’s added advantages and competencies in terms of make-ready time and auto-registration, “JET Varnish 3D is equipped with ARC (automated registered camera) designed to calibrate coating registration from sheet to sheet,” he explains, adding that the machine is perfectly designed for premium products rather than mass scale consumer products. Till date, a printing firm has already adopted the JET Varnish 3D and expecting the count to be multiplied sooner than later. Mobile app

As things around us get gradually escalating online these days, mobile apps play vital tool in every aspect and Konica Minolta is not missing the bandwagon in this as the company has recently launched its PageScope Mobile App for iphone and ipad, which is a novel application that allows users to easily connect to KM presses from mobile devices through Wi-Fi. “This mobile device enables users to print documents, images and could import scanned data to any KM printer that supports this application,” explains Balakrishnan. PageScope Mobile App can store data in different locations, such as My Document, Online Storage, Mail and Web pages being spooled into the PageScope My Print Manager server, which can eventually be printed using a printer that has been registered in the app.

Konica Minolta touches upon the whole universe of printing solutions

Ever awaited KM-1 cut-sheet inkjet press likely to hit the Indian market soon

Fresh competencies as well as value additions that have been constantly augmenting their machine portfolio, advanced imaging technologies, manpower and so forth in the swing accelerate Konica Minolta Business Solutions India into a new motion, which has set them stride along the changing market dynamics. V Balakrishnan, executive general manager–marketing, sales & marketing division, Konica Minolta Business Solutions India Pvt Ltd reveals such developments in an exclusive chat with SK Khurana, editor Print & Publishing over a cup of high tea at Digital Imaging Square (DIS) at their Gurgaon office.

When asked how secure the app device from misuse, Balakrishnan says the device is full proof from any maligned activities as it supports authentication and secure printing on the KM devices connected to it. “You have mobile phone, but if you are not authenticated by the printer which is equipped with authentication device designed as similar as that of the one used in highest level of financial transaction, there is not even a thin chance of infiltration,” he explains. photo albums

In the land where weddings are not mere occasions but professional mass-scale celebrations and people substantially spend huge every year, Konica Minolta genially captures this big-fat Indian nuptial ethos with a special attention on the provision of photo album printing/making to cherish the treasured moments forever in finest textured photo prints. Of course, a robust line of KM presses is available for excellent photo printing jobs, but the JET Varnish 3D is yet

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another proven excellence into this grasp. According to Balakrishnan, Konica Minolta provides relative software for all aspects of printing, be it photo, commercial, books, among others, which eventually help printers customise any sort of prints.

When it comes to counting the number of KM printing presses running in the Indian market, it is being enumerated that Konica Minolta has delivered more than 300 bizhub PRESS C70hc, which features high chroma image quality and it boasts high-speed production of 70 ppm in colour and monochrome. In fact, this press raises the bar in digital production with its fast and efficient RGB workflow that makes colours that pop, texts that grab attention and images that practically leap off the pages. Balakrishnan points out bizhub PRESS C8000 and C1060 are also suitably engineered for such outputs.

Categorically, around 30 percent of KM presses have been installed in the offset printing houses in India. As of now, a collective figure of more than 2300 digital production presses are currently running across the country; on other side, more than 60,000 MFPs of the company have been sold and these devices contribute a lot to the innovative front, engaging in groundbreaking technologies like cloud computing. But the popularity and concept of cloud printing, as Balakrishnan observes, is now in a developmental stage in the country. Demo centres and labs

“Apart from our existing DIS (Digital Imaging Square) in Gurgaon where visitors are privileged to experiment a line of all models of KM machines, we have recently unveiled two labs where equipped every single model that has so far been sold in the Indian market, including JET Varnish

3D,” mentions B a l a k r i s h n a n . He counts other popular KM models being put on display in the labs and DIS as: bizhub PRESS C1060, bizhub PRESS 1250, bizhub PRESS 1052 as well as a line of MFPs like bizhub 283, bizhub C221,

bizhub C454, bizhub 283, bizhub C754, among others.

In addition, Balakrishnan elaborates that the newly introduced labs are designed as complete customer care corners as visitors can experience the whole gamut of Konica Minolta’s activities and products. It’s not only the machines but also the solutions, including software packages, such as Corel Draw, Adobe Illustrator, among others are accumulated in a perfectly arranged manner in the labs to serve the need of their customers. Colour projects

‘Right colour’ is one of the biggest challenges ever faced by the printing professionals these days. Sensing this need to the core level, Konica Minolta has taken up a series of workshops called ‘Demystifying Colour’ conducted in different cities, inviting their customers to educate them the fundamentals of colour and right management of it. “We invite our customers to come along with their media, their own print files and challenges to the workshops,” says Balakrishnan. So far, three Demystifying Colour workshops have been conducted and Konica Minolta is targeting to make it 15 this year itself. KM-1 arrival

Excitement is that Konica Minolta is getting set to bring KM-1 to the market. The machine is constructed with press chassis from KOMORI and the company’s very own UV inkjet technology, expected to be a big showcase at drupa 2016 to be staged from May 31–June 10 in Dusseldorf. KM-1 runs at the speeds of 3,300 sph in simplex and 1,650 sph in duplex modes, capable to outpour prints in 1200 dpi resolution. Rejoice is for book printers as KM-1 can produce a

maximum sheet size of 750x585 mm, which in turn can print three book jackets per sheet, taking a range of substrates, including heavy, textured stocks.

Suitably engineered for high-speed commercial printing as well as short print runs to a given deadline and processing variable data, the arrival of KM-1 will open a new chapter of quality and competence in the Indian digital printing market, covering varied aspects of various spheres.

Visit Konica Minolta in hall 1, Stall D21, paMEx’15.

V Balakrishnan (3rd from left) with SK Khurana (extreme right) and team KM

KM-1 displayed at drupa 2012

EFI wins nine Must See ’Ems Awards

EFI earned nine awards this year in the annual

Must See ’Ems graphic arts technology competition – the most presented to any company this year. The Must See ’Ems competition recognises the most compelling new products to be presented at North America’s largest annual graphic arts trade show, Graph Expo.

This year, EFI received three times more Must See ’Ems awards than any other vendor. This is also the fifth consecutive year that EFI has earned the most Must See ’Ems Awards. EFI’s awards recognize EFI Inkjet, Productivity Software and Fiery products that print service providers can use to drive higher production efficiency and increased productivity while developing new revenue opportunities.

EFI’s 2015 Must See ’Ems Award-winning products include: Fiery Smart Estimator for Specialty Toners (sales and order entry); Fiery Job Parallel HyperRIP Technology (prepress and premedia); Metrix Layout Engine for Pace Software (prepress and premedia); Fiery CMYK+ Technology (colour management and quality control); DirectSmile Cross Media Software, version 7 (variable, transactional and multi-channel); SuperDraw Ink (pressroom: wide-format); EFI VUTEk H2000 Pro Clear Ink (pressroom: wide-format); PrintFlow Software for Packaging (management systems); and Fiery Final Fix Software (the future of print).

“We have been fortunate to win 44 Must See ’Ems Awards during our five-year streak as the leading technology provider in this highly respected competition, and I believe it reflects something very positive about EFI’s culture as a customer-focused developer of leading-edge products,” said Ghilad Dziesietnik, EFI’s chief technology officer.

Visit EFI in hall 1, Stall D10, paMEx’15.

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GOSS Autoplate automatic plate-changing was first introduced on M-600 press in 1995, offering

the ability to plate up an entire press in less than three minutes due to a simple, precision-engineered sequence. Plates were placed into cassettes on the printing units while the press was running or idle; then, at the push of a button old plates were automatically rotated off the cylinders and replaced by the new ones. All or any combination of plates could be changed in this way.

Jean-Pierre Moioli, product manager, GOSS International explained that despite initial skepticism, live demonstrations at trade shows and open houses, together with field experience, rapidly established Autoplate technology as the flag-bearer for web press automation. “The beauty of the system was – and is – the simplicity of its operation made possible through precision engineering, without requiring extra cleaning or maintenance,” he further elaborated, adding, “With the realization that the shorter the run, the greater the benefit, came a freedom to explore run lengths beyond those traditionally associated with web offset and even to compete with sheetfed.” around the world

Today, more than 2100 GOSS Autoplate units are in operation on a range of commercial and newspaper presses worldwide, including M-600, Sunday 2000, 4000 and 5000, and Colorliner CPS press systems. In addition, its development has directly influenced a range of additional

GOSS celebrates 20 years of breakthrough in press automation technology

More than 2100 GOSS Autoplate units now running worldwide across wide range of sectors

As of now, 20 years of introduction of its Autoplate technology has driven GOSS International to set a landmark achievement in the history of offset printing. Introducing reductions in makeready time, labour and expenses, the Autoplate innovation has extended the web offset advantages and created opportunities across a wide range of sectors and applications. We take you to a quick flashback.

newspaper printers exhilarated

Most recently, as the single, most significant enabling technology of the Magnum Compact press, GOSS Autoplate knowhow has led to a new era for newspaper printers and publishers. In reducing makeready time by as much as 90 percent, the Magnum Compact press lowers the break-even point of economical newspaper production. Combined with additional features such as consistent high quality, wide substrate flexibility, heatset options, and a versioning tool, this development provides the means to reach into new markets particularly for those that currently produce small to medium circulation publications.

Eric Bell, director-marketing, GOSS International, said, “Through our decades of experience with Autoplate technology, we were able to develop a simple, cost-effective system entirely unique to this sector.” In providing the ability to change plates in 30 seconds and to complete a full job changeover in less than five minutes, printers can fill the press with work even in the shortest production window.

“The breakthrough with the Magnum Compact press is a perfect example of the legacy of Autoplate technology in general,” concluded Ericl. He recollected that GOSS product designers, back in 1995, could foresee the level of competition today but, bit by bit, as margins have become tighter and harder-won right across the board, the crucial advantages of Autoplate have been unlocking new potential.

Goss is represented by SL Kulkarni Cyril Graphics (hall 1, Stall i06, paMEx’15).

GOSS innovations in industrialised print production, which include: the ‘96-page’ web offset press, creating new economies for very high-volume commercial printing and directly challenging the lower-volume gravure industry; non-stop edition change (NSEC) which ensures further time, energy and waste savings in makeready particularly for high-volume versioning; Automatic Transfer (AT) printing for on-the-run edition changes, eliminating conventional makeready requirements in some applications.

Jean-Pierre said, “Our M-600 experience made the wider press format possible with the same design, creating more opportunities for printers – and the larger the plate, the greater the benefits.” He added that one of the main goals achieved is reliability, proven by field experience with close to 100 percent plate change success. In the case of AT, GOSS International’s customers running 48-page format press lines that are changing more than 700 plates a day.

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Since 1997, Kenning Outsource Group has delivered premium finishing services to a demanding customer base, and has become internationally recognised for outstanding trade-

finishing and print craftsmanship. Their dedication to the highest quality starts with their vision of excellence, achieved through an investment in extraordinary technology. In other words, superior services start with superior tools, and their “latest and greatest” investment is a Scodix Digital Enhancement Press. As corporate president Darren Kenning describes it, “Scodix turns flat printed sheets into memorable marketing that you can see and feel.”

Darren said the Scodix products will allow his firm to offer the best enhancement options on the market, increasing options and profits for its mainstream printers and print broker clients. The company’s target market ranges from ad agencies to the industries smallest and largest printers: it includes such print industry giants as Quad Graphics, RR Donnelley, Nahan, and Merrill Corporation.

Sharing a unique Scodix project, Darren described a wine box his company coated for a Minneapolis printer. “We applied heavy coverage over the entire wine box, running 2-up on 20 x 29-in sheet. The final product looked amazing, very high-end, which was what the customer was aiming for. It’s sure to create a tactile sensation making it a memorable piece for the customer,” he said. Another Scodix project comprised numerous business cards that displayed delicate detail and design. Using Scodix on a business card tends to leave a lasting impression on anyone who receives one.

D a r r e n said Scodix has allowed K e n n i n g O u t s o u r c e Group to leap beyond its c o m p e t i t i o n . Even better, he said, it allows our clients to leap beyond their c o m p e t i t i o n . “It’s a big

deal for designers,” he said. “It’s a way to enhance print in a way that hasn’t been available before, it’s a new ‘tool’ in their toolbox. The Scodix process becomes an imaging dream come true – you immediately see and feel the difference, it’s stunning.”

Visit Scodix distributors – Monotech Systems Ltd in hall 1, Stall D02/D05, paMEx’15.

Scodix enables Minnesota’s Kenning Outsource Group to “transcend the senses”

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Greater Delhi Master Printers Association (GDMPA), New Delhi recently felicitated the newly elected

office bearers of AIFMP (All India Federation of Master Printers) for the term 2015-16. The discerning guests on the occasion included hundreds of prominent print professionals and eminent personalities who welcomed the newly elected office bearers. The chief guest on the occasion Padmashree Vijay Kumar Chopra, past president, AIFMP and chairman, Punjab Kesari Group, Jalandhar enhanced the charm and importance of the balmy evening.

The newly elected office bearers of aiFMp include: Shyamal Chandra Basu – president; Kamal Chopra – vice president (north); Sunil Garg – honorary general secretary; prakash T Jagtap – vice president (west); C prakash Babu – honorary joint secretary; Dibyajyoti Kalita – vice president (East); raveendra Joshi – honorary treasurer; S Manickam – vice president (South) and Dev nair the immediate past president.

The guests of honour were Manoj B Mehta, past president, AIFMP and Kapil Chopra, president and chief patron of Apex Chambers of Commerce and Industry. Also present were AIFMP past presidents Subhash Chandra, Satish Malhotra, Govind Bhargava, IPAMA Team - CP Paul, NS Manku, Satish Bajwa, and senior officials from the ministry of MSME, Directorate of Printing, NCERT, Ministry of Urban Development and GC members of AIFMP from Amritsar, Kanpur, Lucknow, Noida, Delhi-NCR and others.

Vinod Sethi, president, Dalip Tuli, general secretary and office bearers of the host association GDMPA welcomed the new team of office bearers and distinguished guests with all the respect and warmth. Subhash Chandra, past president AIFMP welcomed everyone and put forward the expectations from the newly elected team. Arun Agrawal was the convener for the event. Speaking on the occasion, Sunil Garg, honorary general secretary thanked GC members for electing him for this highly responsible position. He said that this newly elected team shall be committed towards providing better services to the members of the federation and the printing fraternity at large. He said, “Focus will be on collective effort, effective communication, and dissemination of latest industry information to members.”

The incoming president Shyamal Chandra Basu thanked the GDMPA for the honour bestowed on his team. He assured the AIFMP members that he and his team will leave no stone unturned to the betterment of the AIFMP and the print industry.

GDMPA felicitates newly elected office bearers of AIFMP

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competency of its product range and capture some leads, Konica Minolta’s recent Gujarat Roadshow in Ahmedabad demonstrated KM bizhub PRESS C1060, which attracted digital printing press owners, lab owners, among others. It was an opportunity for the company to position itself as a genre-top provider for secure document solutions, addressing the need for ‘paper’ security solutions and increase awareness of Security System Integrators that is typically focussed on premise security solutions or logical access control limited to only the PC/network.

Konica Minolta trails on a string of roadshows

Similarly, the company impressively participated in the HID Roadshow held at Sivakasi, showing its KM bizhub PRESS C1085 and KM bizhub PRESS C1060. The Process cum Product Development Centre (PPDC) Sales & Service team was also present in order to ensure smooth running of the whole event. The KM bizhub PRESS C1060 digital colour press delivers fast print/copy output of up to 60 ppm, with superior colour photo image quality, purpose-built reliability and simple touchscreen control. They also organised road show in cities like Mumbai, Siliguri, Thanjavur and Nagpur to demonstrate their PP products.

Visit Konica Minolta in hall 1, Stall D21, paMEx’15.

KM bizhub prESS C1060 hiD roadshow, Sivakasi

national printing associations from around the globe

met in Porto to discuss Print Matters for the Future. The meeting was organised by the World Print and Communication Forum (WPCF) and Intergraf for participants to focus on the future of the industry, latest technological developments, studies and the economic situation in various markets worldwide. On the behalf of All India Federation of Master Printers (AIFMP), Kamal Chopra, chairman international relations participated the meeting.

Kamal Chopra represented India in WPCF meeting at Portugal

The World Print & Communication Forum (WPCF) is an association created by the world’s major transnational and regional printing associations. The

objectives of the WPCF are to form a single global exchange platform for the printing and communication industry between the different players and to stage conferences to analyse market trends and business opportunities.

The main theme of the conference was ‘Print Matters for the Future’, with 50 participants from 23 different countries enjoying a varied programme.

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Exhibitor List as on October 28, 2015

ExhiBiTor liSTlaBElExpo aSia 2015December 1-4, 2015Shanghai, Chinawww.labelexpo-asia.com

paMEx 2015December 09-12, 2015BEC, Goregaon, Mumbai (India)www.pamex.in

MEDia Expo MuMBai 2016January 15-17, 2016Mumbai, indiawww.media-expomumbai.in.messefrankfurt.com

SauDi prinT & paCK 2016January 18-21, 2016riyadh, Saudi, uaEwww.saudi-pp.com

prinT paCK araBia 2016February 22-25, 2016Sharja, uaEwww.printpackarabia.ae/

paCKpluS SouTh 2016March 02-05, 2016HITEX International Exhibition Center, Hyderabadwww.packplussouth.in

Drupa 2016May 31 – June 10, 2016Dusseldorf, Germanywww.drupa.com

paCKpluS 2016July 27- July 30, 2016Pragati Maidan,New Delhiwww.packplus.in

all in prinT Chinaoctober 18-21, 2016Shanghai, Chinawww.allinprint.com

papErEx SouTh inDia 2016november 11-13, 2016Chennai, Indiawww.paperplus.in

EMBallaGE 2016november 14-17, 2016paris, Francewww.all4pack.com

prinTpaCK inDia 2017February 4-8, 2017Delhi, indiawww.printpackipama.com

CoMinG EvEnTS

A S Print Aids Private Limited .................................F04Abhikruti Digi-Soft .....................................................J10ACME Machinery Company Private Limited ............................................................I10ACME Machinery India Private Limited ............................................................J34Advanced Graphic Systems .......................................J26Aesthetic Multimedia ............................................... K51All India Plastics ........................................................ C15Alliance Graphic Equipment ....................................E22Alpha Omega Machines .............................................I29Alpna Visual Packaging Aids ..................................D12Ample ...........................................................................I55Anant Book Suppliers .................................................J68And Global Sales Corporation ................................ K21AND Systems ............................................................ C45Anil Agencies .............................................................D04Anugrah Impex ......................................................... K38APL Machinery Private Limited .............................H20Arofine Polymes ........................................................ K57Associated Engineering Corporation .....................D52Auto Rull India ............................................................I22Autoprint Machinery Manufacturers Private Limited .......................................................... G10Bhogle Engineering Works ........................................I30Bobst India Private Limited .......................................I54Bodhi Professional Solutions Private Limited ...... G31C & T Matrix / Plastics Capital India Private Limited .......................................................... K49Canon India Private Limited ....................................E20Capital Graphic Supplies ..........................................F04Chemline India Private Limited .............................. G11Condot Systems Private Limited ..............................I44Creaseline Technologies ...........................................D69Creative Digital Solution ..........................................D77D S Graphics ...............................................................F22Dbind Wire Products Private Limited ................... K61Deluxe Printing Machinery Company ....................F40Diagraph Imex Private Limited ..............................D85Dongguan Shengtu Bookbinding Equipment Co., Ltd. ....................................................I60Dongguan Tengfeng Machinery Co. Ltd. ................I40Duratech Automation Private Limited ....................J19Easeprint Solutions.com .............................................J15ECL Finance Limited .................................................B21Electronic For Imaging India Private Limited ......D10Electro Mec Machinery Manufactures Private Limited ...........................................................F10Electronica Finance Limited ......................................J18Epson India Private Limited ......................................J02Excel Machinery (Guj) Private Limited...................E42Fair Deal Engineers ...................................................D50Five Star Printing Machinery Co. .............................J01Flexography India Press .............................................J48

COMPANY STAND COMPANY STAND

Flotech Machineries Private Limited........................J84FujiFilm India Private Limited - Industrial Products Division ....................................E32Gabbar Engineering Co. .............................................J22Gayathri Machineries / Grover Industries .............D03Genius Flexo Machinery Private Limited. ...............J56Global Healthmate ....................................................A55Grafica Flextronica ......................................................I02Grafik Machinery Exchange India ...........................B06Haiyan Huada Ink Chemical Co., Limited, China .....................................................J41Harbhajan Singh & Co. ..............................................B71Hari Impex ................................................................. K05Harison Agencies ......................................................A01Harpreet Graphics.......................................................I31Heraeus Noblelight GmbH ...................................... K31Herzog+Heymann GmbH & Co. KG ..................... G50Hewlett Packard ................................................. E10,E04Hi-Tech Systems Pfe Private Limited .....................D30Hongming .................................................................. G42HY-TEK Print Mac ..................................................... G30Igus India .....................................................................B17Impex Enterprise .........................................................J60Imtech Marketing Services ...................................... C42Indo Poly Machines Corporation .............................E45Indo Polygraph Machinery Private Limited ...........I27Indopacific Inc ........................................................... C69Infina ...........................................................................A44Intergraphic ................................................................D27Innovative FlexoTech Private Limited. ..................A61Innovative Technologies ...........................................H44Insight Communication & Print Solution India (P) Ltd ................................................F20Inssta 3D Print Private Limited .................................J54Integriti Consulting India ........................................J45Ionic Chemicals ..........................................................B61Jiangxi Zhongjing Group Company Limited ......Hc29Kamal Engineering Works .......................................D73Kanan Graphics Private Limited. ...........................D59Kapoor Imaging Private Limited. ........................... G45Keywell Industrial Co. Ltd. .....................................E31Khanna Traders ..........................................................B28Khushi Graphics ................................................... I62/J71KK Graphics .................................................................J63KMI Business Technologies Private Limited .........D61Konica Minolta Business Solutions India Private Limited ................................................D21Kshitij Polyline Private Limited .............................. C56Kunal Enterprise ...............................................K01/K03Lasetrix ........................................................................B01Line O Matic Graphic Industries ............................ G01Longxingsheng Machinery Co. Ltd. .......................H50Luna Bearings ............................................................ C23Ningbo ZhongDa Leader

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Publisher’s Note…PAMEX comes at an opportune time

india is one of the few countries where printing industry is growing, despite all odds. Digital printing is increasing its share by coming up with new applications.

While the battle between online and brick-and-mortar shops continues, retail signages have a larger role to play and brand offers change frequently, thereby increasing the scope of in-shop signages. On the other hand, printed mailers are now making a comeback as people are aiming at decluttering their mobiles and desktops.

Similarly, newspapers still have a significant role for advertisers. More recently, major online retailers came up with aggressive campaign in newspapers.

Besides, packaging is one of the fastest growing segment and this trend is sure to continue. Amidst all these positive signals, PAMEX comes at an opportune time. Many exhibitors are upbeat about the industry and are showcasing the whole gamut of their products/services. New launches will also be a significant part of the show.

Come, be a part of PAMEX!–Varsha Verma, Project Editor

COMPANY STAND COMPANY STAND COMPANY STAND

Transmission Equipment Company Limited ...............M N International ..................................................... C25Macrobond .................................................................D31Maxcess India Automation Private Limited. ..........J42Maxworth Trading Company ...................................B62Meditek International Pvt.Ltd. .................................B65Megabound (India) Private Limited. .......................E30Mehta Cad Cam Systems Private Limited. ..............J39Memory Repro Systems Private Limited. ..............D22Modular Infotech Private Limited .......................... K39Mohansons India ....................................................... C19Mohindra Mechanical Works .................................. C27Moksha Engineering Works .................................... C35MonoPrint Digital Equipments .................................I41Monotech Systems Limited. ............................D02/D05Morsef .........................................................................H30Morya Enterprises .......................................................I43Multi Hitech Inc ........................................................ K65Namrata Graphics ..................................................... K41Natraj Corrugating Machinery ................................B14Newstech (India) Private Limited........................... G13Nippon Colour ..........................................................E40Nova Printing Solution............................................. C46Nulith Graphic Private Limited. ............................. K23OM Vir Print-O-Pack Private Limited. ................... G23Omkar Engineering ................................................. K19Omkar Engineering Works ...................................... K13Origami Machines Private Limited. ........................B20P S Graphics ...............................................................D60Pack Link Industries ..................................................B18Packolabel .....................................................................I14Packoprint ...................................................................B63Pal Associates ..............................................................B54Pangraphics Machinery ..............................................J12Paper Bind International PTE Limited. ...................E15Param ERP Solutions India Private Limited ......... K37 Patel Enterprises ..........................................................J82Percept Print Solutions (Division of Percept General Trading Co.LLC).....D01Pinnacle Technocrats .................................................B03Planet G Systems .........................................................I64Polygraf General Industries .......................................I66PPEM India ................................................................D75Pragati Corporation ....................................................J65Prakash Engineering Works .................................... K69Pratham Technologies Private Limited. .................D40Precise Graphic India Private Limited. ....................J51Pressline India Private Limited. ................................I01Pressman Solutions ....................................................B30Presto Stantest Private Limited ............................... C40Print Generic Systems ...............................................E43Printax ......................................................................... K25Print-O-Graph Machinery Industries ..................... K29Prizm Holograpy And Security Films ....................H42Provin Technos Private Limited. ..............................F14Quality Printing Spares .............................................B16

R K Label Printing Machinery Private Limited. ...D71R M Associates ............................................................E12Ratan Industrial Engineers ...................................... K10Relax Enterprise ..........................................................J80Renuka Softec .............................................................J66Repro Poly Services....................................................B26Reprographics India ..................................................F52Reprographic Systems & Supplies ......................... C66Reves Techpack Private Limited. ............................ K71Ricoh India Limited .................................................. G02Riso India Private Limited ....................................... C33Robatech India Private Limited. ..............................B02Robertson Machinery Company ............................. C11Rohan Cards & Printers Private Limited ............... C01Rollexe Engineers ........................................................J17Rotoffset Corporation ............................................... K45Royal Enterprises ...................................................... K33Ruian Dapeng Printing Machnery Factory .........Hc21S Kumar Multi Products Private Limited. .............D51S.L. Kulkarni Cyril Graphics Private Limited (Goss International Corporation) ..............................I06Safire Machinery Company Private Limited ..........J72Sahil Graphics ............................................................H08Sai Enterprises .......................................................... G30Sakthi Printek (Sakthi Group Of Company) ...........J61Sangeeta Poly Pack Private Limited. ......................H12Satish Chemicals..........................................................J44Selection Scan De' Print .............................................B67Sen Labels Machinery SDN BHD( 809225H ) ........B10Shenzhen Mansion Technology Limited ..............H06Sheth Printograph Private Limited. .........................F17Shri Ganesh Chemical Industries ...........................H34Shri Export Import LLC .............................................J70Sky Screen Private Limited. .......................................I05Sodhisons Mechanical Works .................................. G12Soham Technologies ...................................................J58Srinivas Papers ............................................................I50SRK Technologies ...................................................... G40Stallion Innovative Machines ...................................F32

Standard Printers Providers .................................... C31Star Copier Pvt. Ltd. ...................................................I11Stationery Automation Private Limited. ................ C41Stoosa .......................................................................... G43Suba Solutions Private Limited .............................. G09Swift Private Limited. .................................................I12Tata Capital Limited .................................................D66Tech Master Engineering ......................................... K53TechNova Imaging Systems Private Limited. ........F02Technoshell Automations Private Limited ............D68TGS India .....................................................................F54Thirumala Makers & Marketers ...............................B22TRC Exports Private Limited. ................................. C29Turakhia Textiles Private Limited. .......................... K66Uni-Ram Corporation ...............................................A03Unique UV & Light Private Limited. .......................I20UV Graphics Technologies Private Limited. ......... G12Valco Melton India ......................................................J14Vallava Graphic Machinery Company ....................E03Variety Wires.............................................................. K11Vibrant Graphics .........................................................J50Vijaya Grafiks Inc ...................................................... C68Vinsak India Private Limited ...................................H02Vishal Graphics Impex ...............................................I19Vivid Manufacturing Company Private Limited ...........................................................B12Web Master ................................................................H40Welbound Worldwide Private Limited (Impel Services Private Limited) ............................. G21Wellmark ....................................................................E51Xerox India Limited. .................................................D20Yash Graphic .............................................................. C39YES Bank Limited ......................................................I34Zenith Rubber Private Limited. ...............................F42Zeta Marketing ...........................................................B09Zhejiang Saili Machinery Co. Limited. ................Hc25Zhejiang Zhongte Machinery Technology Co., Limited ..........................................D51Zhongke India Private Limited ................................E50

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