Finest in Print: Best of PrintWeek India Awards I (2009-2010)
PrintWeek India Printing Company of the Year 2009 - Manipal Press (now Manipal Technologies). The official auditors of the Awards were impressed with the production scale, the number of verticals and Manipal's commitment to continuous re-investment. Manipal in 2008-2009 had invested 30 million dollars in the infrastructure.
PrintWeek India Small Printing Company of the Year 2009 - CMYK Press. This Jalgoan-based ISO certified commericalprint firm has implemented Kaizen and worker-friendly programs. The company has recently invested in digital printing press
PrintWeek India Pre-Press Company of the Year 2009 --- Wintek Flexo Prints. This Bengaluru-based label printing firm has joined hands with Illinois Tool Works (ITW) Signode India, to scale up the printing operations. Label printing firm has recently obtained Full HD Certification from Esko
PrintWeek India Student of the Year 2009 - Hrishikesh Kulkarni. In his final year presentation a project on flexo optimisation and plate parameter analysis. Currently he is working with Kodak and is looking after flexo printing solutions
PrintWeek India Post-Press Company of the Year 2009 - Gopsons Paper. In 2010, Noida-based Gopsons Papers setup a 17.5 acre plant near Sivakasi. The company was in the news at Ipex for the purchase of two new four-colour + IR drier KBA RA 130a presses.
PrintWeek India Label Printer of the Year 2009 - Universal Print Systems. The label printing firm has invested in Mark Andy 2200 narrow web flexo printing presses
PrintWeek India Consumer Magazine Printer of the Year 2009 - Manipal Press (now Manipal Technologies). In 2013, the firm announced the process of merging their packaging businesses with Utility Printpack, India’s leading packaging solutions providers
PrintWeek India Business Magazine Printer of the Year 2009 - Silverpoint Press. The Mumbai-based print firm expanded its print operation in 2011 into digital segment by investing in HP Indigo 3550
PrintWeek India Social Stationery Printer of the Year 2009 - Jak Printers. The entries were printed on a Heidelberg Speedmaster 102S
PrintWeek India Book Printer of the Year 2009 - Pragati Offset. In 2013 the Hyderabad-based print firm ordered for two brand-new Komori sheetfed presses
PrintWeek India Packaging Printer of the Year 2009 - Utility PrintPack. The print samples which the packaging printing firm sent were printed on Heidelberg CD74 with UV interdeck in a single pass using UV inks
PrintWeek India Catalogue Printer of the Year 2009 - Pragati Offset. To meet the client's requirement of printing a catalogue for a metallic series, Pragati came up with a solution of adding more metallic spot colours and used more 10 metallic shades
PrintWeek India Brochure Printer of the Year 2009 - Rajkalp Mudranalaya. all the entries sent by the Ahmedabad-based Rajkalp were printed using the 10-micron stochastic screen technique
PrintWeek India Newspaper Printer of the Year 2009 - Divya Bhaskar. The DB Corp which publishes Divya Bhaskar invested in KBA presses at Bengaluru, Jaipur and Ahmedabad, introducing gate fold concept in the country for the first time on KBA Bengaluru
PrintWeek India Fine Art Printer of the Year 2009 - Pragati Offset. Among other entries, Pragati submitted David Schorr's book, Goods, consisting of 70 panels folded in a zig zag manner
PrintWeek India Poster Printer of the year 2009 - Autographics Digital. The Bengaluru-based digital print firm used 3M monomeric vinyl, overlaminate and 3M one-way graphic film printed on HP Turbojet 8300
PrintWeek India Reports & Accounts Printer of the Year 2009 - CDC Printers. in 2012, the Kolkota-based has CDC had eexpanded and diversified in book printing and currently produces one lakh books per day
PrintWeek India Digital Printer of the Year 2009 - Manipal Press (now Manipal Technologies). In 2008, Manipal invested in major stake of Universal Print Systems to bring into its fold Label production technologies
PrintWeek India Innovative Printer of the Year 2009 - Peacock Media. The digital print firm did an innovation with Indian Railways which included a wrapping of print on Rajdhani Express. This was followed by innovative projects for Jet Lite and HSBC Bank
PrintWeek India Creative Repro Company of the Year - Comart Lithographers. The Mumbai-based pre-media firm has opted for an ISO 12647-2 standard especially for Conde-Nast jobs. The group of companies is headquartered in Mumbai with offices in Bengaluru, Delhi, Hyderabad, and Kolkota
PrintWeek India Point-Of-Purchase Printer of the Year 2009 - Parksons Graphics. In 2012, Parksons Graphics invested in an HP Indigo 5600 to cater to the on-demand shortrun book business
PrintWeek India Printing Company of the Year 2010 - International Print-O-Pac. The company started as a pre-press house in 1981 and gradually transformed itself as a print firm. The firm has been granted a stable P1 rating by Crisil which is a high quality rating
PrintWeek India Student of the Year 2010 - Priyadarshini Sridharan and Shalini Vijayarajan. Among the applicants, both Priyadarshini’s and Shalini’s consistent academic records and research presentations during their course of studies were outstanding
PrintWeek India Pre-Press Company of the Year 2010 -Comart Lithographers. In-depth knowledge of colour management, print processes and complexities of applications are the USP of this pre-media firm
PrintWeek India Small Company of the Year 2010 - Vyoma Graphics. The Pune-based firms The 10,000 sqft unit is a fine example of a single-tier, pillarless unit which houses all operations under one roof. There are 25 windows that enhance cross-ventilation. The press flooring has an epoxy coating, which renders it dust proof. Landscaping ensures a clean-green environment and a spot for its team of 50 workers to unwind during breaks
PrintWeek India Post-Press Company of the Year 2010 - Parksons Graphics. With a state of the art pre-press department, a range of four and five-colour offset printing machines and a complete in-house post-press set up, Parksons can deliver jobs of the highest quality
PrintWeek India Screen Printer of the Year 2010 - Spectrum Scan. During the year, Spectrum boosted its turnover by 26% over the previous year. The company, based in Vasai with a unit in Lower Parel has invested as high as 35% in new assets in order to attain leadership status in industrialised applications and the screen print industry
PrintWeek India Book Printer of the Year 2010 - Jak Printers. The winning entry had books like Narigandhi, Hampi – A story in stone and Dharavi which displayed quality throughout, right from paying attention to design, use of photographs and imagery to consistency in print
PrintWeek India Brochure Printer of the Year 2010 - Pragati Offset. All the four printed samples had unusual graphic effects that capture the project’s spirit
PrintWeek India Business Magazine Printer of the Year 2010 - Silverpoint Press. The Mumbai-based firm company in 2013 launched its Augmented Reality (AR) brochure to showcase the pool of applications of AR
PrintWeek India Catalogue Printer of the Year 2010 - Silverpoint Press. PrintWeek India's issue dated 10 March 2014, features augmented content enabled by Silverpoint’s Xploar augmented reality app.
PrintWeek India Consumer Magazine Printer of the Year 2010 - Silverpoint Press. According to Silverpoint, the magazine publishing industry is a honeypot for creative people, leading to brilliant opportunities and ideas for printers to execute
PrintWeek India Creative Repro Company of the Year 2010 - Honeycomb Creative Support. For Royal Challenger poster for IPL and Romanov signage the process took ten hours with rounds of corrections,involved cut-out and mixing
PrintWeek India Digital Printer of the Year 2010 - Thomson Press. The winning entries were printed on HP Indigo 5500 and included works like table calendar, a food menu, a coaster+mousepad and a production service book
PrintWeek India Fine Art Printer of the Year 2010 - Pragati Offset. Judges loved El Anatsui’s metallic looking cover. Pragati achieved this using MET PET laminated paper and a variety of metallic inks
PrintWeek India Innovative Printer of the Year 2010 - Jak Printers. The Excelerate flyer had the judges exclaiming “an innovation that’s succinct and hip too!” The Chinese binding used and the casing for the book Madhushala also came in for special praise
PrintWeek India Label Printer of the Year 2010 - Sel Jegat. Sivakasi-based Sel Jegat has a complete array of offset, letterpress, flexo and screen printing machines and has recently added a Rotaflex automatic label detection system, the first of its kind in Asia Pacific that works with PDF
PrintWeek India Newspaper Printer of the Year 2010 - Divya Bhaskar. Equipped with a KBA Prisma, Divya Bhaskar has a print capacity of 2,70,000 copies per hour, fires TechNova’s Viostar plates on a Krause LS Jet 300 and uses Micro Inks
PrintWeek India Packaging Printer of the Year 2010 - Pragati Pack. The judges were particularly taken in with the Printer’s Black Dog 18 Years carton complete with flocked thermoforming tray moulded to the bottle’s size and pasted in the box
PrintWeek India Personalisation, VDP & Transpromo Printer of the Year 2010 - Mail Order Solutions. In 2010, Mumbai-based Mail Order Solutions (MOS) has installed one Xerox iGen4, GMC software and Kern mailer to speed-up the production capacity for which the company has invested Rs 4.5-crore
PrintWeek India Point-Of-Purchase Printer of the Year 2010 - Macromedia Digital Imaging. The Hyderabad-based Macromedia created multi-layer designs from a flat layout/design with the HP FB 6100 using UV curable inks
PrintWeek India Poster Printer of the Year 2010 - Antz Innovations. The judges enjoyed the 3-D effect, which was created using 32 frames lenticular printing for three times better 3-D effect
PrintWeek India report & accounts printer of the Year 2010 - Silverpoint Press. According to Silverpoint, the Larsen & Toubro and Bajaj Hindustan work had satin aqueous on all pages, while the DHFL had silver foiling on the cover
PrintWeek India Social Stationery Printer of the Year 2010 - Parksons Graphics. The judges loved the Kalpataru Desk Calendar and the Roff Planner. The 13-leaf calendar with a flyleaf and envelope strictly followed the client’s instruction
PrintWeek India Wide-Format Printer of the Year 2010 - Color Photo Print. According to the printer, this required proper treatment; multiple test strips were printed with different curves and applied for best highlight preservation
Finest in Print: Best of PrintWeek India Awards I (2009-2010)
The PrintWeek India Awards season is fast approaching. Over the past five years PrintWeek India Awards has received over 6000 print samples. These samples were scrutinised, appreciated and criticised by 144 jury members constituting of print buyers, key decision makers, advertising agencies and print experts. In this two-part series, we bring to you the best specimens of unrivalled print execution that enthralled the jury and took home PrintWeek India’s coveted prism