Print in Tokyo: BMPA's Japan visit

Singapore by night from the Singapore Flyer

The BMPA delegation receives a warm reception at the HP Indigo Centre of Excellence

The HP Scitex C8600 at Film Screen. The company specialises in outdoor media, producing vehicle wraps. The company also has offset press, complementing its digital printing capabilities

Lee Chee Yong, owner of Film Screen briefing the delegation from BMPA

The ABG Digicon post-press equipment installed at Jit Khoon’s Winson Press in Singapore. Jit Khoon was one of the speakers during Print Summit 2014. Winson is a company that began as an advertising firm, diversified into print. Today it offers turnkey solutions

HP Indigo’s digital print partners were part of Coke’s Share A Coke campaign. A sample of the Coke bottles at HP Indigo’s Centre of Excellence

Demonstration of HP Indigo WS Series digital label printing press. The BMPA delegation taking a close look a the micro-text and high-end security features the WS Series is capable of

Sakurai’s solar power generation system at its Gifu plant. The solar system generates 320KW of power

Sakurai’s screen printing machine manufacturing assembly line at the Gifu plant. Over 5,000 machines installation in the world

Another view of Sakurai’s screen printing machine manufacturing assembly line at the Gifu plant

Ajay Gandhi of Kunal Enterprise, the Indian representative of Sakurai screen printing in India, explaining the multi-purposes of screen printing

Japan puts out its autumn face for the BMPA delegation

The Toyota robot playing the trumpet

HP’s equivalent of Spectrum Scan’s Bazaar

A HP Indigo representative at the Centre of Excellence demonstrates the spectrum of products that can be rendered using HP portfolio including the Scitex for printing of corrugated sheets

A collage of six synchronised tiles; each rendered on a HP digital printing press, including Indigo and Scitex presses. One of the six blocks is a CMYK print, which seamlessly integrates with the other digital prints

The BMPA delegates are triggered by the special effects achieved by the HP digital print processes

The bullet train that ferried the BMPA delegates to Gifu, arriving at the Tokyo Central

The BMPA delegated get gyaan on an unfinished cylinder at the Sakurai Gifu plant. The cylinders are manufacturing in-house

This is a gripper, part of the Sakurai press, which picks paper for print. The highlight of the gripper is the diamond finish, and though there a bit of wear and tear, it is capable of outliving the machine. The other press manufacturer which uses a similar gripper technology is Komori

This is the Sakurai built screen printing machine. Incidentally, Sakurai was the first Japanese press manufacturer to participate in a Drupa (1952)

A printed circuit and electronic panel printed on a Sakurai press. Ashok Jain of Akar, examining the panel

A replica of the famous Gutenberg Bible. The replica was printed at Kinyosha Printing, a Komori customer, who specialises in digi-packs

BMPA heavyweights with Yoshiharu Komori, chairman and CEO of Komori Corp, Japan. Komori-San will be delivering a talk on world trends and future of offset on 16 January at Print Summit 2015

A gallery of Komori offset presses at the Komori Graphic Centre in the ultra-modern Tsukuba plant. The plant produces seven presses a day, 3,500 presses per annum and using Kaizen principles. The assembly line moves at 7-cms per minute and is a multi offset press assembly line. Komori presses use the same quality of bearings that go into manufacturing a bullet train.

The original manual sheetfed 26-inch offset press manufactured in 1942

Ricoh greets the BMPA delegation - making a BIG impression!