Picture Gallery: Replika 3.0: Celebrating the power of the printed book

Replika’s expansion, which includes a new factory near its existing plant in Sonepat, with a floor space of more than 4,80,000 sq/ft

Books from Replika are being exported to five continents

How Replika copes with slow-moving inventories in this day and age, where publishers demand faster turnaround times (TAT)

Recently, Replika has invested in a Heidelberg CD 74 and Heidelberg 2/2 or 4/0 three months ago, as well as a Ryobi and a Canon Oce

The KBA press at the facility. The Replika Book Factory boasts of a raft of presses

The SpectroPlate can precisely read any screen size and screen technology

Replika's transition towards a multi-format system to cope with the constant changes in technology

The new facility has separate space for hardcover and soft cover books

The ideal capacity of the press is 200,000 books per day and Replika has achieved 85,000 books by the end of the year 2015. In this, they are doing 55,000 hardcover books and 30,000 soft covers

In terms of paper, Replika prints two million impressions per day, that is, one million sheets

Vikaran Seth, director-production, Replika Press, said, "In the past 15 years, I have seen how a print company has transformed itself into a technology company."

Sanandan Seth, director-marketing, Replika Press said: "Replika, in its journey of more than five decades, has not only grown in size, from a tiny one-room business to acres, but also in its print stature and book binding ability"

(From left) Rajiv Beri, managing director, Bloomsbury Publishing India, JP Vij of Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers, and Mike Levaggi, group production director, HarperCollins Publishers participated in a panel discussion about the Indian book market and Replika’s place in it

At the show: Bastiaan de Winter of Kolbus and Ranjan Kaul of Oxford University Press India

The panelists at the event discussing the future of the printed book

Subhasis "Dada" Ganguli and P Sajith of Welbound Worldwide

Neil Bradford talks about what more should Replika be doing. And what it is doing well ...

Proud of Replika's achievements. So says the development commissioner, Dr L B Singhal. His government is keen to support the industry

Vote of thanks by Bhuvnesh Seth, managing director of Replika. The company was facing a bottleneck in the post-press segment. Therefore, it invested heavily in a new building with a floor space of more than 4,80,000 sq/ft, not far from its existing facility in Sonepat

Bhuvnesh Seth of Replika delivering the vote of thanks for which he invited the extended Seth family on the stage

The audience paid heed to the discussion about better communication, best practices, standardisation, and most vociferously and better rates

Louise Cameron, group production director, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc making a "bookish point"

Puneet Datta (c) and Gurjeet Dhingra of Canon India (r) crunching data in the digital print segment with Ramu Ramanathan (l) of PrintWeek India

Replika's friends who have seen the journey journey to make book printing industry in India a well-directed, income and profit generating industry with a well-charted future which is capable of handling global requirements

The Seth Family with Stephen Esson and Neil Bradford of Penguin Random House

The Nielsen's India Book Market Report says India's print book market is worth Rs 26,060 crore. Replika is at the top of this book market

Replika Press was in the news recently for having bagged the CAPEXIL award. Replika reported exports of the highest value - Rs 7580.89 lakh - with exports in countries like Tanzania, Kuwait, Nigeria, Ghana, Oman and Singapore among others

Replika team receiving the CAPEXIL award at a ceremony held on 28 January at the Vigyan Bhavan in New Delhi

Replika has a record of winning five-time consecutively for PrintWeek India Post-Press Company of the Year title. Kudos from the PrintWeek India team