Komori driving efficiency in book printing at Sonipat’s Officenow

Established in 2013, Officenow India has been a full-fledged book printer, catering to educational books for schools, colleges, and academic institutes. “We are the first-generation book printer. From one level to another, we keep scaling up production as well as quality in prints with constant upgrades of our infrastructure and machine portfolio. Our ambition is to be in the league of biggest and premier book printers in India,” Puneet Chitkara, founder-director, Officenow India, said.

He added, “It has been more than a decade since we use only Komori presses in our production facility. We have seven Komori presses of different models and configurations. Of them, three are brand new and the rest pre-owned. We never looked beyond Komori presses because of their capacities revolving around quality, speed and productivity as well as team Komori India’s dedicated after-sales support.”                      

The first brand-new Komori press at Officenow India, a four-colour Lithrone G37, was installed in 2022. After that, the company kept on focusing only on brand-new presses. Currently, three brand-new Komori G Series presses at Officenow India’s production facility align perfectly with the company’s vision to produce premium quality educational books. 

Officenow India boasts fully equipped pre-press, press, and post-press units. “We manage everything from plate-making, printing, binding, finishing, and dispatching under one roof,” Chitkara said, adding that the company’s pre-press and post-press units have Topaz thermal CTP, Aster sewing machines, Stahl folding machines, ElectroMac six clamps, Muller Martini flow line, Hi-Tech laminator, Rokin case-maker, Megabond cast-in machine, etc.    

“We have recently placed an order for a brand-new eight-colour Lithrone G 37 Advance from Komori India. This will mark our eighth Komori,” Chitkara said.

An alumnus of Pusa Institute of Technology, New Delhi, and a trained printing technologist, Chitkara is optimistic about the future of the educational book printing market. “Using the Komori presses, we currently engage in printing around 500 tonnes of papers per month. What we are targeting is to make it 700 tonnes soon with further investment in new presses,” he mentions. 

According to Chitkara, Officenow India’s team of 120 well-trained and experienced staff is set to indulge in the round-the-clock operation of their production facility of 50,000-sqft (constructed area) where the fleet of Komori presses are productively and efficiently running to print and produce soft and hardbound books. 

“As of now, we are catering our books to the domestic market only. Our next-step plan is to engage in exports too. We have hired a new team for that. As our premise is now a bit congested, we are going to go for a green field expansion in future for producing more books for the offshore markets using more brand-new Komori presses,” he concluded.