Sri Laxmi Ganapathi installs Heidelberg SM 74 Press and Suprasetter A106
Andhra Pradesh-based Sri Laxmi Ganapathi has commissioned a four-colour Heidelberg SM74 and a Suprasetter A106 CTP at their new facility in Rajahmundry.
14 Nov 2013 | 3542 Views | By Rahul Kumar
The company was started with a letter press around 46 years ago in Kovvur, Andhra Pradesh.
MV Nagabhushana Rao and MV Bhadra Rao, took control of the press in 1978 from their father and founder MV Satyanarayana.
The company is engaged in printing Hindu literature, academic text books, workbooks, brochures, posters, magazines and wedding cards. Prior to their rendezvous with Heidelberg, Sri Laxmi Ganapathi Images had been performing their operations with used machines.
MV Bhadra Rao of Sri Laxmi Ganapathi, said, “The decision to go with Heidelberg equipment was certainly not spontaneous. We visited Heidelberg's Wiesloch production facility in Germany to get a personal opinion on the company and the equipment.”
"It was love at first sight", he recalls with a chuckle.
"We were looking to improve print quality and speed, while reducing paper wastage. The Speedmaster SM 74 four-color press matched his requirements to a tee," he added.
The Prinect Press Centre of the Speedmaster SM 74, with its innovative intellistart process-oriented operator guidance system, enables straightforward and precise machine control.
The Speedmaster SM 74 can process a wide range of printing substrates, from thin paper to board, ranging in thickness from 0.03 mm (0.0012 inches) to 0.6 mm (0.024 inches). Automation components like autoplate reduce make-ready and setup times phenomenally compared to other presses.
Heidelberg Suprasetter can process 18 plates per hour with plate formats from 370 × 323 mm to 930 × 1,060 mm. Equipped with the thermal laser technology developed by Heidelberg; the plate-setters are protected against production failures by the Intelligent Diode System (IDS).
"The investment is already beginning to pay off," said Nagabhushana Rao.
"Ever since the equipment was installed, the orders are pouring in," he added. Looking ahead, the Rao’s are already considering further investment in Heidelberg equipment in the next few years with the most probable being a Heidelberg CD 102 press in the 70 x 100 format and a Polar paper cutting machine.
"Progress is about the choices we make. Heidelberg has turned out to be one of our best business decisions," concluded Bhadra Rao.