10 works of print art at the Konica Minolta demo centre

PrintWeek India visited the Konica Minolta demo centre in Gurgaon and realised that what began as a short run print gallery, has morphed into a significant design endeavour encompassing photo journals, gorgeous gifts and print work, most of which you can check out on this special picture gallery.

Besides a penchant for print artwork, Konica Minolta has also masterminded 2000 installations all across India.

A Rahul Kumar Special which celebrates print.

12 Nov 2014 | By Rahul Kumar

V Balakrishnan, executive general manager - marketing, marketing division, holds the panorama printed album

This sample won the Print Excellence award in Asian Print Awards - that uses photography and fabrication to provide visual vignettes

Wedding album from Indonesia. Like in India, the Bizhub Press caters to the requirements of commercial printers, mailhouses and print on demand requirements as well as high volume copyshops and franchises

It contains five segments - CDs, gifts, honeymoon photos, collection of other photos and memorabilia

The beautifully fabricated magic box - contains multiple fold albums which includes photo albums and CDs

This wedding card was printed by a Delhi-based printer: a total number of printed cards was 300 and the cost for each card is Rs 3000

Again a Delhi-based printer has printed the wedding invite with with a compartment for gifts and dry fruits

A radio-shaped design that can store eight separate photo albums and CDs too. The CDs compartments which contain exclusive footage of the ceremony is below

'Birds of America' is a series of three books and was printed on 1200 dpi resolution; the size is the key

The album was printed in China on special paper - Konica Minolta is capable of printing on 55gsm up to 350gsm, and those stocks include synthetics as well as paper based media

The length of the album is approximately four feet

Photo book gives you a real world feel thanks to use of augmented reality

An Indian wedding album is printed through multi screening. This is possible due to the superior colour gamut which can be achieved with a new version of the HDE toner. The reds for instance are simply stunning

Special menu card for special evening. One of the key highlights to this job was the flexibility of RIPs from EFI

Printed on a Konica Minolta press, the photo album has an enhanced metal touch and feel

High performance due to high image that has attracted customers from in-house print rooms and graphic communication providers

Text enhancement to detect the area of print data and reproduce the colours and unique characterisations of text

200x1200 dpi resolution with 256 gray shades produce sharper text, denser black fills and smoother halftone images on the high-volume digital press

The bizhub PRESS C1060 digital colour press delivers output of 60 copies per minute

A pre-press studio in the demo centre is equipped with software for colour correction. Printers can bring their files and work on it in real-time on a real press