19 print CEOs talk about quirks that work in PWI's fifth anniversary issue

It's a virtual who's who of the Indian print industry. The roll-call includes: Mehul Desai. Vishwanath Shetty. Ankit Tanna. Apurv Garg. Sukhvinder Singh. Rupesh Sawant. Anoop Venugopal. Alok Munot. M N Pandey. Dwipal Patel. Faheem Agboatwala. Biju Paul. Inder Kumar. G Venugopal. K J Thomas. Govind Bhargava. Karthik Narayan. Magesh Karthik. Anuj Bhargava.

09 May 2013 | 2772 Views | By PrintWeek India

The nine-page exclusive feature compiled by Priya Raju and Tanvi Parekh includes influential people from all over India; be it, traditional printers and technocrats to pioneers, titans and icons.

In addition, there is a five-page Big Interview with A Balachandra of Rajhans Enterprises. The Bengaluru-based firm is one of the unheralded stories of India. A print firm that produces 45 titles for monthly magazines, six weekly titles and seven newspaper titles. The firm has nine units in Rajajinagar, Bengaluru covering 90,000 sq/ft areas plus additional units in Devangere in central Karnataka and Coimbatore.

A Balachandra who says: "Rajhans Enterprises is a rag to riches kind of story. As an individual, I have grown only due to hard work. Also, I have made investment in machines like no other print firm in India has dared. I have purchased four brand new heatsets, five four and five-colour sheetfed presses and ten coldset web presses. We have installed 15 CTP systems, we have highest consumption of plates and ink in the country. Other than newspaper houses, we have the highest consumption rate with 22,000 plates in a month."

The bumper issue (10 May 2013) also features "the first time anyone has looked at the unique print industry in Morbi plus a Masterclass on newspapers by Purnendu Sen, the former technical director at The Times of India."

To subscribe to this exclusive 148 page anniversary issue, please send an eMail to:krishna.naidu@haymarket.co.in

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