Alok Munot, managing director at Prabhat Printing Works: "I would like to print for the Indian soldiers and martyrs.
It would be very challenging"
Ankit Tanna, director of Printmann Group: "The pleasure of reading the newspaper or a book will always be more than an e-paper or a kindle"
Anoop Venugopal, director for technical, Anaswara Offset: "In terms of quality printing, we are at par with the best in the print in India"
Anuj Bhargava is the chief executive officer at Kumar Labels and Hassle Free Technologies: "Packaging is definitely here to stay, unless humans can eat virtual food one day!"
Apurv Garg is the director of Brijbasi Art Press: " Interest costs in India are too high and so it’s important to be a debt free company as soon as possible"
Dwipal Patel is the Director of Shree Printwell Offset: "Innovating, Upgrading and Marketing - if any printing company is not doing this, then they are dying"
Faheem Agboatwala is the director at Hi-Tech Printing Services: " I would like to print a book for Ferdinand Alexander Porsche titled : “The birth of a legend : 911”
G Venugopal, managing director, Sterling Printers: "My favourite machine in my unit is the Mitsubishi Diamond 2000 as it gives consistent quality output and it’s trouble-free"
Govind Bhargava is the All India Federation of Master Printers (AIFMP) president and director at Solar Press: "Fierce competition is keeping presses very alert, probably because of excess capacities and slowdown"
Inder Kumar is the director of Chanakya Mudrak: "My only advice to fellow printers is to invest in new technology and command a price for your investment. Selling cheap is suicidal"
K J Thomas, managing director, Varna Offset Printers: "I can see my establishment ready to meet the domestic as well as export print requirements. I see a bright future"
R Karthik Narayan is the director of Chennai-based Multivista Global: "I am a big fan of CTP technology"
Mehul A Desai is the founder and chairman of Mail Order Solutions: "My understanding is that we are at the cusp of a major change in terms technology and how we have been working"
M N Pandey is the director at Avantika Printers: "Global business dynamics and modes of communication are changing but traditional printing will survive except for specific cases"
Biju Paul, partner, Photo Perfect Digital Offset Press: "The HP Indigo 5500 is my favourite equipment and we have built our organisation around it"
Rupesh Sawant, director at Superlekha: "We have saved a huge amount of money with the BasysPrint 851 series"
Mahesh Karthik S of S T Reddiar: "50,000 books of 48 pages stapled and finished in one day’s time. We met the deadline in less than 24 hours"
PrintWeek India gets to know Sukhvinder Singh of PrintExpressions: "CTP – has improvised on quality as possibilities of dot gain and loosing details on the image today is very less. Delivery time, quality and efficiency have been far better than the old days"
Vashikaran Rajendrasingh, managing director, Bell Printers: "I constantly look towards innovation and game changing processes, so I am usually not concerned with how the industry perceives threats or goes with the crowd instinct"
Vishwanath Shetty, owner of PrintWorks: " we are doing some odd jobs for training material where the printed sheet is pasted on a sunboard and some ‘match the column’ puzzles"
Picture Gallery: A Day in the life of a printer
The young turks featured in the picture gallery are daring, different, willing to break the rules. Do things that assert their integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers. Which is why, the print firms they head are not creatures of the commonplace, or slaves of the ordinary. A compilation of the print CEOs and what constitutes a typical day at the office.