Countdown to Drupa: TPH to emphasise on automation
At Drupa 2016, Faridabad-based The Printers House, one of the oldest, and the country’s second largest web offset printing presses manufacturer, will highlight its new automated features, including auto reel changer, auto registration and cut-off control, auto inking and digital preset, ink-water balance preset, auto ink pumping, footprint shaft less and compensating stacker and few more.
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The company, which has been to every Drupa show since 1986, will be in Hall 16/ Stall B57. This year, there will be no machine on display at the show. According to the company, it will be a poster and dangler show at its 88 sq/m stall, which would be manned by personnel from its export department.
TPH has supplied a couple of fully automated presses in Africa and Middle East markets and the company will share its achievements and experiences in both the markets at Drupa. “We believe that an automated press leaves a good impression on the customer, as well as attracts other customers. Though print quality remains the same, when it comes to ease of operation, reduced initial waste and consistent print quality, automation plays an important role.” Pawan Tyagi of TPH said.
TPH has supplied two fully automated Orient X-Cel presses to the Nigerian daily Punch. The machines are installed in Abuja and Port Harcourt. A popular newspaper in Nigeria, Punch runs the maximum number of web offset printing presses in the region. On the book production side, the company is a regular supplier to the Asian countries.
Closer home, TPH has sold its first automated four-colour book printing kit to Tamil Arasu Press in Tamil Nadu, which is part of the government printing press. Recently, the Noida-based Hindi daily Amar Ujala purchased two Orient X-Press presses, which can produce 50,000 copies per hour. There is also one Orient X-Cel shaft-less web offset press at Marathi daily Lokmat, and one Orient X-Cel at the Bhaskar Group. The machine can print at the speed of 36,000 impressions per hour.
“The Indian newspaper market is expanding to class C cities while it is retracting in the metros. Slowly, all big newspapers are realising the change. In our opinion, all printers should maintain certain minimum level of print quality even in class C cities. Today, newspapers available in class C cities are of low print quality compared to the ones we get in the metros. This leaves a bad impression on the masses and also accounts for falling readership,” Tyagi said.
Tyagi said that Drupa 2016 would help open new markets for the company’s product range. “Requirement of web offset presses is going down in most developed countries. On the other hand, it is increasing at a substantial rate in other parts of the world,” Tyagi concluded.
Drupa 2016 will take place from 31 May to 10 June 2016 at Dusseldorf, Germany. PrintWeek India is a cooperating media partner at the show. The team led by Noel D’cunha, Rushikesh Aravkar and Monica Rohra will be present on all days of the show.