On the sidelines of the exhibition, NPES, the association for suppliers of printing, publishing and converting technologies, in association with Indian Printing, Packaging and Allied Machinery Manufacturers’ Association (IPAMA), the organiser of the show, and the International Color Consortium (ICC), will hold a day-long conference, titled, ‘NPES-ICC Color Management Conference 2015’.

Also in the offing is a day-long seminar on web printing, especially aimed at web printing manufacturers and web vendors, and of course, the newspaper industry, for which IPAMA has joined hands with Chennai-based Vibes Academy.

Colour management

Titled, ‘Manufacturing success with colour management,’ to be held on 12 February 2015, the second day of Printpack India, the conference is set to explore the ubiquitous issues of colour management.

To answer the participants’ queries, on hand would be the experts, including, William Li, co-chair, ICC and manager, Kodak Colour Technology, Steve Smiley, president, Smiley Colour & Associates Global Brand Solutions, Max Derhak, vice-chair, ICC and senior software engineer, Onyx Graphics, Dr Phil Green, adjunct associate professor, Norwegian Colour and Visual Computing Laboratory, and Bob Hallam, president, Pixelologie Inc.

Web printing

Vibes Academy, a well-known printing technology institution based in Chennai, provides training and services to the various needs of the printing industry.  Dedicated to the print fraternity, the academy, in the past, has organised several one-day seminars on colour management, reproduction quality, lean management and optimisation of resources and also on many other technical and management subjects.

The PrintPack seminar, to be held 13 February, 2015 at the Greater Noida Exhibition Centre Conference Hall from 10:30 am to 06:30 pm, will focus on web printing for printers, manufacturers and vendors, as a means of growing together. There will be four sessions and each session will be addressed by a distinguished speaker, well-known in the industry.

At the end, there will be a panel discussion, consisting of professionals from the commercial printers and bookmakers’ segment, the newspaper industry, the web printing segment and machinery manufacturers’ group and also the vendors’ segment. The topic of the panel discussion is “Make in India – Made in India.”