PrintPack: Product launches and new opportunities - Part I

Although colour matching is the Advanced Graphic Systems' strong suit, its PrintPack focus will be the newly launched flatbed sample maker: DCE and DCP series at Hall/Stall: 7/11C

Faridabad-based APL Machinery is thrilled with LED UV curing and sees it “a great benefit to the print industry”. APL at Stall: 1/20 & 1/30 will shed light on UV coating machine, dripp-off UV machine and screen printing machine with auto take-off and UV dryer among others

Abhikruti Digi-Soft’s (Hall/Stall: 5/24) Ultra Pack of 42 DVDs with tools will help to make innovative designs that fit with latest trends - colour reference book, collections of Indian colour cliparts, fonts, logos, photo albums PSDs, 2015 calendar designs and much more

Allespack’s banding machine could do benefits for printers to improve their packing quality. The kind of machine that the company will showcase at its Hall/Stall: 9/7A at the show is manufactured by not more than five companies world over, claims the manufacturer

The Verve from Colorjet, is all set to wow the visitors at the Apsom's Hall/Stall 7/2. Other not-to-be-missed products at the Apsom stand are: Roland’s RF640A and LEF20; Softjet Grand, and PoloEX, all large- and wide-format applications

Bobst at Hall/Stall 10/12, will demonstrate how automation can be vital to cost and operational efficiency for profitable growth. Team Bobst will tell visitors why they should be present customers to its ensuing open house – Competence ’15 to be hosted from 26-28 February at its plant in Pune

Baumer HHS will showcase at Hall/Stall: 10/7, its Xtend2, a modular system for controlling the application of glue and for quality assurance

Arets Graphics (Hall/Stall: 9/11) is synonymous to UV chemistry and its primary aim at PrintPack other than focusing on radiation curable solutions is to educate the printers who still have not switched to UV and enable then with its benefits

HIC Machinery, one of the leading manufacturers producing automatic plants for 3-ply and 5-ply corrugated boards, will showcase automatic and semi-automatic lines

Canon India (Hall/Stall: 7/14) will display a range of its commercial and wide-format printing zones including Dreamlabo and Oce Arizona with the prime attention being the light production digital press, Imagepress C600

With over 10,000 installations, Condot, named as an ambassador of TIJ technology in its segment in India, will display digital devices for variable data printing, barcoding, numbering and mailroom applications at Hall/Stall: 5/12

With over 40 years of experience in manufacturing gripper bars, Conway’s (Hall/Stall: 12/53) top performing 339 gripper bar for Bobst 102 die cutter will be its star offering at the show

Creed Engineers' printing personalised security labels with fully variable information Vinsak LVPI and brand protection solutions will hold centre stage at the Hall/Stall: 9/10A

Domex’s (Hall/Stall: 9/34B) doming technology will allow you to print striking three dimensional emblems directly on the goods or their packagings. This is Ecodomes patented technology from Japan, which is flexible enough to play with many variables like substrate as per your liking

In October 2014, Esko rounded a successful IndiaCorr Expo when it launched V series Kongsberg cutting table. It had booked three orders prior to the launch and three orders at the show. The manufacturer hopes to continue its stellar streak of Kongsberg V’s order bookings at PrintPack (Hall/Stall: 7/7)

Proudly sporting the Made in India label from Ahmedabad, Excel Machinery will launch a semi-automatic version of its flagship Maxima die-cutting machine CR-35, this time for E-fluted corrugated sheets at Hall/Stall: 3/15

For the commercial retail printers who are looking to join this growing class of printers, at PrintPack, Flexi Web2print (Hall/Stall: 9/18) will offer the latest and fifth upgrade, since it introduced the solution in 2012. With the new features, it allows the user to add unique content with the CMS (Content Management System), dynamic portfolio to publish recent jobs fulfilled by them and provision to add blog posts

Fujifilm’s Acuity LED press has gained traction in wide-format segment recently with the company rolling it out aggressively. Besides, at PrintPack (Hall/Stall: 5/17) there will be Pressmax chemicals, water washable flexo plates Flexnew and processless thermal digital plates

Nano-Print plus will be the pride of the Grafica Hall/Stall: 11/25. Launched in 2010, Grafica claims it’s the world‘s first all electrical mechanical, plug and play semi automatic screen printing machine. It’s a parallel lift movement feature has made spot UV work simply simple

Five Star Machinery, the Amritsar-based printing and packaging machinery manufacturer will introduce several new products for the stationery market. This includes automatic punching machines for spiral and wiro binding jobs, which is capable of punching over 40,000 pages in an hour

Komori’s India representative, Insight will showcase Komori LA437 at Hall/Stall: 3/16, a product designed for India from a 30-inch press to accommodate to the 900 size. Its USP is that it is designed to handle paper surfaces are very low grade available in India especially in the smaller towns

Established in 1960, Amritsar-based Guru Nanak Printing Machinery (Hall/Stall: 10/36A) will have platen die-punching machine and programmable paper cutting machine at the show. Guru Nanak Printing Machinery is a sister-concern of Guru Nanak Machinery, one of the oldest manufacturing set-ups in Amritsar

Guru Nanak Machinery (Hall/Stall: 10/58) will launch platen die-punching machine with new features like automatic scrap removal technology and auto-fed rotary sticker half-cutting machine and perforating machine. An ISO-9001 certified company, Guru Nanak Machinery was established in 1962 and caters to the print packaging sectors

Hitech Systems (Hall/Stall: 7/11) will bring the Foil Xpress AP, a computer-to-foil machine, which can foil print on various substrates like paper, leather, vinyl, PVC and more, to provide album covers, invitation cards, diary and book titles among other applications

Jay Engineering’s (Hall/Stall: 12/24A) has sold 12 envelope window (film) pasting machines in a span of seven months. Not only being hassle free is the machine’s USP, but also, its maximum speed of 150 blanks per minute is way ahead of its competitors, says director Ajay Kumar

Established in June 2014, Integriti Consulting (Hall/Stall: 10/9) is a fresher at the show. The company is a part of Italian gluing specialist Ero Srl and its stand out product high pressure cold glue system, which dispenses glue dots at 350m/min, has already achieved 22+ installations in the country

Konica Minolta (Hall/Stall: 5/16) plans to display its latest colour and monochrome digital production machines, which the company has recently launched. This includes Bizhub press C1070/C1060, C1100/1085, C70HC and 1250/1052

Established in the year 1972, Kalsi Machinery, an ISO 9001:2008 company, will display at its Hall/Stall: 5/11, its automatic end sheet gluing machine and edge squaring machine. The company would be launching book backing and rounding machine which is currently under R&D stages

The picture here is the Book Spine Pre-gluer, one of the four new kit that Joy D-zign will be showcase casing at Hall/Stall: 1/21. These are joint forming press online (H), joint forming press online (V), booklet three side trimmer, and Baling press

Reflecting Kodak’s new organisational structural, the vendor will be, it says, hosting at Hall/Stall: 3/14 the entire range of solutions across four business divisions: print systems, enterprise inkjet systems, micro 3D printing and packaging, software and solutions. However, what the company plans to push aggressively is Sonora XP process free plates

Laser Technologies (Hall/Stall: 12/23), is set to attract the visitors with Flexi, a laser cutting and engraving machine manufactured by Italy-based SEI Laser. The kit being used by Pragati Offset, Parksons Graphics, EIH and Solar Print Process among others is a testimony of its success

Ahmedabad-based Line O Matic's latest automatic line does away with manual counting and offline gathering on conventional machines in a bid to provide a lucrative price-performance ratio with over 2000 installations in India and overseas