Picture Gallery: PrintPacks 50 trailblazers

AGS's low investment laser-cutting and engraving machine manufactured by China-based Gbos is targeted at commercial printers and packaging printers alike. The average life of laser heads is 4,000 hours

Propagating LED-UV: The APL team, together with Stephen Metclaf (2L), CEO, Air Motion Systems, advocated the LED technology. Metcalf said, "The LED UV technology will gain popularity in India with the increased emphasis on sustainability and technology upgrades. We are projecting 20-30 new customers for the technology in the next 12 months."

Bodhi launched Omnitek’s Veripack 3D, a web-based 3D visualisation software; the world’s first in terms of technology. Plus the SW series colour management monitors from Benq, which are targeted towards the photography industry

Tapping the growing digital market with its light production print solutions for the range of its commercial and wide-format printing segments, Canon is aggressively expanding its presence in the Tier-II and Tier-III cities

Karan Talwar(c), with the Kolkata-based Nextgen Printers team; who has recently booked the Kongsberg XE 10. Additionally, Esko has added two more names to its Kongsberg XE 10 and the pre-press software workflow clientele; DJS Printers and York Prints

Modify, proof, save: This Flexi Web to Print's solution for printers allows the clients to modify, proofread and save their business stationery, advertisement, flyers, posters, postcards, brochures, catalogs and much more besides for ordering online directly from web

A launch and sale: Fujifilm's latest Acuity EY was picked up by Allahabad’s Raj Printers & Packagers.

Grafica attained double success. First, scores of visitors from across the globe, mainly from offset and packaging field watched live demo of screen printing various UV special effects on Grafica Nano-Print plus and Nano-UV. It also received spot bookings for three Camshell (heavy duty wide format screen printing machines), and two cylinder press that includes one export order

Boasting of a pan-India presence, Graphotronic provides services to key players like TCPL (Haridwar and Silvasa), Srinivas Fine Arts (Sivakasi), Thomson Press (Faridabad), Yamir Packaging (Vadodra) and Singhania and Pragati (Hyderabad), among others

Parag Shah's Hi-Tech had its order book filled up on the second day for all the 19 machines across the entire range of print finishing equipment. Plus the stand had a presentation - Earn More Money - for offset and digital printers. Interestingly, at its stand, students from the PUSA University were walking the visitors through the display and conducting live demonstrations, too

Anupama Printing Solutions diversified into flexo platemaking with Kodak’s Flexcel NX system, a first mover in the Delhi-NCR region to invest in Flexcel

New Delhi-based Advantage Offset has commissioned a Komori LA 37 four-colour printing press equipped with KHS AI and Navi Mumbai-based Rukson Packaging booked a Komori LS 32 six-colour plus coater press

HB Fuller flaunted its newly launched Swiftlock PUR adhesive for book binding

In an exclusive tech-talk with the PrintWeek India team, Yuji Nakata, managing director of Konica Minolta in India, said, " India is the biggest strategic market. Our plan is, to enable the market to grow, from magazine covers to visiting cards. KM controls 60% of the digital"

Fidia enters Indian market with Chennai-based Print Generic Systems. It's versatile folding and gluing machine can produce envelopes, presentation folders, CD covers and what not

Malhotra Graphics sold two Morganas: an Autocreaser to Pune-based K Joshi and Co and a Morgana Digicreaser 30 to Mudra Offset in Pune

The newly launched fully automatic Bolt RB104 has a speed of 500 metres per minute with 60 strokes per minute, the machine can convert up to 20-22 tonne of paper in a day. The reel width is 104cm, providing an option of maximum five-ups

The Megtec AR35-I flying splicer saw its ‘Made in India’ launch in 2009 and since then has had over 150 installations. It has a capacity to handle reels up to 1070-mm (42-inch) diameter, is designed for right angle installation, basement or inline to press

Huber Group : Celebrating 250 years

Laser Techologies' Flexi, a laser cutting and engraving machine manufactured by Italy-based SEI Laser boasted of a maximum speed of six metre per second. It gives an opportunity to the design team to push their limits and create something unique, without getting budged by the intricacies in the artwork

The first: Manugraph showcased the newly launched Ecoline presses for the first time. The press is suitable for small- and medium-run requirements of about 40,000-80,000 copies. Ideal for large circulation newspaper as well as smaller circulations in a tier-two or tier-three city

MGE Graphic Systems India has joined hands with Vale-Tech Systems from the UK to represent their full range of ink kitchen and ink mixing products in India

Paper Bind makes binding affordable with the launch of its System 380 binding system. The machine is designed with a closed pot tank and application and can handle 25 reheats over two months

Monotech announced the installation of two HDGE UV CTP systems at Carrier Computer and Sahil Processor in Jalandhar, Punjab. Plus the installation of a BasysPrint UV CTCP to Daffodils in Patiala

The manufacturers of book binding kit, Electromec launched rigid box making machine, four-fold case makers and casing in machines

According to Vinod Nawab, ParamERP print MIS has the capacity to transform a printing company by showing major bottlenecks, tracking of performances of departments, wastage control and capacity utilisation. “It helps in decision making for expansion. Automation of the print production processes has become vital for business growth.”

Vijay Shenoy of Urbane: offering financial advise to SMEs for fund raising

Sodhisons’ automatic rigid gift box making machine

Swifts, has diversified into digital printing with the launch of VDP Max, an A2 sized machine, and an VDP Compact, the A4 size kit. The first VDP max will be installed at Ceylon Business Appliances, Colombo and the first VDP Compact will be installed at Computer Appliances in Ajmer, Rajasthan

Glue dispensing specialist Nordson inked a business relationship with Welbound Worldwide to cater to the Indian market with its hotmelt and PUR adhesive application technology. Suprotik Das, managing director, Nordson India, said, “Welbound’s binding kit, combined with Nordson’s gluing solutions will provide Indian book printers with the top of the line equipment cost-effectively.”

Zund, impressed visitors with its high performance S3 M 800, which it announced sold to Hyderabad-based Halftone. The S3 M800 already has installations at RR Donnelley, Padma, Metallic and Orion

a 100% carton inspection and sorting system for folding cartons, Supersort is being installed at Kalapi Printers in Vasai. The speed of the machine is 200m/min. It works out to be 50,000 cartons per hour for smaller cartons and 20,000 cartons per hour for larger cartons

TechNova has launched CylFresh. It’s a solution to keep impression cylinder free of ink deposits. The CylFresh comes with new lamitube packaging. “We have developed a new package for this product instead of HDPE tubs or bottles. The new user friendly package can be squeezed to apply and thus the application remains clean,” said Milind Kale

Xerox launched its new entry-level mid-production digital press, Color C70 and confirmed two bookings of the kit. The two customers are Jagtap Printing Press in Kolhapur and Hindustan Printers in Surat

Visitors thronged at Sahil Graphics stall, making it perhaps the most crowded stall of the show. It’s star product was the non-woven bag printing machine. We heard an enthusiastic buyer saying:

Sergusa Solutions, sister concern of SLKCG displayed box making machine, MIS solutions and inspection systems from Fuchu Shiko (Japan), Solprint (UK) and Beijing Daheng Image Vision (China) respectively

Naph’s new machine Demy Crown has two cut-off sizes in a single press. The machine has provision for 508 and 578 mm cut off. This ‘Made in India’ press is targeted at book printers because most of the book production in India happens in both cut-offs

Valco Melton's family of Microglue glue system folds, glues, and perforates in one operation to create self-mailers in C, V and Z-fold formats. Microglue HM10 is perhaps the simplest and easiest to use, two-channel, all-in-one system

Excel Machinery confirmed that Rajkot's Karachi Offset and Sanraj Box Manufacturer & Printers have opted for Maxima CR 35 and Maxima Exb 35 machine respectively

The company’s printing personalised security labels with fully variable information Vinsak LVPI and brand protection solutions held the centre stage

Sale announced: Autoprint Dion 450, represented by Popli Graphics was booked by Mascot Printer, Vadodra and the Knight NX, non-woven bag printing machine to Shilpyan Printer, Noida

Vijaya Grafiks' flagship carton folder-gluers and window-patching liner carton machine, which is capable of making cartons for moisture-free contents like masala, glucose, tea, etc., works at a maximum speed of 10,000 cartons per hour

Picture Gallery: PrintPack's 50 trailblazers

Mumbai-based Vishal Group launched an inventory management system, which promises to take care of a print firm’s inventory of consumables offered by the company. The group is in a quest to expand its reach pan-India with new distributors

16 Februaruy, 5:30 a.m.: Machines packed. The show is over.

The PrintWeek India team, under the leadership of Noel D'Cunha and Dibyajyoti Sarma produced the PrintPack Daily (32 pages) on all the five days of the show