38 Print Portraits by Ramu Ramanathan

Ramu Ramanathan trudged across the country from Delhi to Hyderabad. He attended seminars and talks in Mumbai. A selection of some sane and some fun pictures. These include portraits of print plants, print persons plus print gifts. All this has been shot on the humble Nexus 4

21 Aug 2015 | By Samir Lukka

Tushar Dhote, nominated president of the Mumbai Mudrak Sangh on 20 August. We hope he does a nifty turnaround of MMS like he has done with DOT

Fred Poonawala presenting the story of Comart for the merry members of BMPA's Share to Benefit

Parksons show at Palladium: A hush before the start of the evening attended by hundreds of brand owners who were impressed with the magic of inline cold foil

The first of the VIPs who were present for the re-opening of Dhirubhai Mistry Institute (DMI) demo centre on 5 June. Grafica's industry initiative

Print industry veteran, Sandeep Thanawala of Neat Graphics, has invested in a Fujifilm Acuity Advance Select HD4006 with roll-to-roll option and a Gbos laser system at his new 4000 sq/ft unit in Thane

The man who plays many parts: The eclectic Vijay Adlakha at his Okhla plant. From print to marketing to education of the girl child in a village in Haryana

V Balakrishnan at the Konica Minolta showroom in Gurgaon with a fresh launch

Vinay Kaushal, director of Provin Technos, in his office is pleased that 42 Ryobi MHI orders have been notched up in the past 18 months

The PrintWeek India office received a thoughtful gift from Vasant Goel of Gopson Papers, who has printed this rare collection ... To learn more Click Here

Time to up the tempo: The reality of how printed books are transported in India

The young Devang Rawat of Bhiwandi-based Quality on Time Packaging (QoT), a new name in packaging printing

On 15 July, the MMS sought to address the concerns of local printers about the printing of a large part of Maharashtra textbooks and workbooks by printers outside the state

Rave Scans, with its facilities in Delhi, Gurgaon and Manesar, announced the installation of the country’s first Speedmaster CD 102-6+LX with Foilstar from Heidelberg, at a press gathering in Delhi on 5 May 2015

The two-day OAC show in Mumbai. Do read Noel D'Cunha's review...

The Kinetic stall at the OAC conference Do read Noel D'Cunha's review...

The 3M gallery in Bengaluru: Flashy neon signs and flexible substrates

A different type of OOH: The poster of my favourite Marathi play at a busy street corner in the working class bastion of Mumbai

There are ways and ways to brand your presence. IP decided to be On The Road...

More power to education: The BMPA and PrintWeek initiative, Seekho Aur Samjho, along with GIPT in Mumbai and SIES in Nerul

The Arets team in Mumbai. Do watch out for the interview of Prashant Atre (extreme right) in the September issue

A fine example of packaging. A gift by Noel D'Cunha, who returned from the HP factory in Israel. For football fans, that is Brendan Rogers on TV

The myriad avatars of packaging on an Indigo flight

Takeaway food: The food has been exquisitely packed with a disposable dust bin

A box created with the Welbound HC500, India's first hot melt glue case sealing machine

Techno Graphic Services (TGS) in Hyderabad marked a beginning in its print business with the opening of a new facility for flexo pre-press called Digiflex

The Tyvek Man. Read more about TES Packaging from Hyderabad in the September issue

A busy paper cup factory in Hyderabad which is combating the threat from disposable plastic cups

The very impressive exteriors of the Lokmat plant in Pune. The press has upgraded its colour registration on their Manugraph web presses with an Intelligent Color Register Control solution from Iware

Masters of screen printing at the Fujifilm Sericol plant. The smart factory in Pune produces a range of solvent-based screen, digital, flexo and offset inks

This is what Faheem Agboatwala does to his jeep; when he is not being president of BMPA and the chairman of STB

The Salar Jung museum, a treasure trove of rare books and manuscripts. I was escorted to this section by a young city historian from ITC, Sandeep Moses

Michael Frayn, a British playwright I admire. His Matchbox Theatre book is a collection of tiny playlets, designed to be performed in an intimate theatrical space. The duration of each piece as long as a matchstick stays lit