HP Dzine & Prints is a printing facility with both offset and digital printing presses. It was established as offset unit but gradually entered the digital printing space. Since its entrance in digital printing from August 2009 with a Konica Minolta bizhub Pro C6501, the company has been continuously adding the printing presses from the same company. And right now, six production presses from Konica Minolta are operating in its facility. These include: KM C6501, 950, 6000, 1051 and the two 8000
On repeat order of KM C8000, Hitesh Tandon, owner, HP Dzine & Prints, comments, “Being a repeat order it shows the kind of confidence we have in the machine. There are many special things about the machine but the print resolution of 1200dpi at 8 bit data processing and more than 350 gsm media printability has really attracted us. We print around three thousands sheets per day on newly installed digital production engine.”
Hitesh Tandon, bachelor in hotel management from Goa came to Delhi to learn computer and gradually became a printer. He established HP Dzine & Prints in August 2008 even as he was serving the industry from 1995 as a print agent. Recalling his first job he said, "I got my first job for few hundreds of rupees for T Shirt printing."
All the digital printing presses have been supplied by HCL Infosystems, one of the four Konica Minolta dealers in India. Tandon said that HCL provides excellent after-sales service and attended their calls in an hour time. Right now we have six production presses from Konica Minolta.
The company converts around three ton papers per day. And around 85% of the production comes from offset facility, which has a Heidelberg SM 74 press. The offset facility of the company prints 10 to 12 sets of jobs per day from 1000 sheets to 50000 sheets but most of the jobs are of less than 5000 prints' volume.
“We did not grow tremendously but we grew well. We are planning to enter in to web-to-print segment and commission a brand new Heidelberg four colour printing press with CTP solution. We have ordered an Epson 9000 series printers also since we already have HP Designjet Z6200 to cater wide-format market,” concluded Tandon.