Heidelberg organises UV printing event at Kolkata

At the event, Udo Fiebiger, regional business manager, Heidelberg Asia Pacific, shared his views on latest trends in packaging printing and market; whereas Peter Rego, general manager for sales, Heidelberg India shared the complete range of Heidelberg solutions from pre-press to post-press; Thomas Gohl, sales manager for Asia Pacific, IST METZ spoke on Heidelberg and IST solutions and Saseendran Baskaran, assistant general manager-sales, Heidelberg India shared his views on evaluating ROI and benefits of Heidelberg and IST/UV.

The delegates also witnessed a six-colour plus coating job being printed on a 320gsm board with conventional inks.

During his presentation, Rego said, “Heidelberg has installed more than 1000 units of CD 102 press in India. Around 80 customers pan-India have been delivering fine prints using this press. It just proves that Heidelberg walks the talk. And worldwide, we have more than 60,000 units installed for CD102. ”

Fiebiger said, “Heidelberg is focused on packaging printing from 1986 and it is the only company which can provide solutions from pre-press to post-press. And different technologies like offset, flexo and digital under one umbrella. Colour corrections and registration are two crucial things and through new technologies you can do it very fast and with less manpower. After a period, you can see the how much you are saving on the machines.”

He further said, "Different substrates like metal, glass, plastic and wood are using for packaging nowadays. As per our study, offset market will be stable for packaging printing and it will grow. India and China will be the growing countries in the world and maximum part of the growth will come from these countries."

Rego concludes, "It shows the possibilities opened up by UV printing, highlights the advantages and disadvantages and shows the solutions Heidelberg is able to offer its customers. UV printing provides some excellent advantages like inks and coatings harden immediately, higher level of gloss, greater scratch resistance, very special feel, printing on non-absorptive materials, powder savings, print product can be finished immediately, environmentally compatible."

The event was attended by more than 20 printers of the region.