Vol. XX | No. 3 | May - June...

Vol. XX | No. 3 | May - June 2016

Print Miracle | May - June 2016 | 1

Print MiracleRNI Reg. No. 65957/96 The Official Journal of Kerala Master Printers’ Association Vol. XX No. 3 May - June 2016

Editor : P.S. RajanAsst. Editor : Joe Paul

Office Bearers of KMPA

President : G. VenugopalGeneral Secretary : D. Manmohan ShenoyTreasurer : B.K. RajanImmediate Past President : Joseph Muttathottil

Joint Secretary : Yeldho K. George

Vice PresidentsCentral : T.F. JamesNorth : C.R. NandakumarSouth : K. MadhusoodhananWest : S. SajiHeadquarters : P.S. Rajan

Committee Chairmen

Exhibitions : O. VenugopalPublication : P.S. RajanMembership Promotion : Raju N. KuttyTraining & HRD : G. RajeshAwards : K.P. UthupHospitality & Recreation : Shaji ManjooranExport Promotion : K.P. SabuMachinery : R. GopakumarTechnology : Magesh KarthikPaper & Raw Material : Benitto JoseLand & Building : Nazir MarikavilGovt. Affairs & Taxation : Roy ThomasWebsite Management : Gerard T. Chandy

G.C. Members-AIFMP : O. Venugopal : G. Venugopal : K.C. Sanjeev : Raju N. Kutty

Contents

Editorial

It has been quite a task for me functioning as the Editor of Print Miracle for the last two years as I am also an entrepreneur who runs a fairly busy printing

establishment. Often I find myself hard pressed to dedicate time for the magazine, even to write the editorial, despite my liking to write. But somehow, I always managed it, often after my assistant editor Joe Paul’s repeated calls, reminding me about the deadline for the magazine to go to the press.

Okay… the magazine did fairly well, these two years, I believe. My role in the magazine had been most importantly to generate the idea of the main story. I still remember vividly suggesting the idea of a cover story on prominent women entrepreneurs in the printing field of Kerala for the May-June 2014 issue of Print Miracle. My assistant editor was a bit cagy about the idea as he wondered whether we could find some female bosses in the printing field in Kerala. Surprisingly, we could find a number of such personalities and the issue with the fantastic cover page headlined ‘Women Power in Printing’ came out in print. The responses from the female professionals were also quite enthusiastic and they told their stories to Print Miracle elaborately. The issue was a hit and I received many a congratulatory notes from various quarters.

I was in the US on a private visit and missed the opportunity to be a part of the KMPA Drupa team. But, I attended Kulakkada Pradeep’s session ‘Demystifying Drupa’ held at KMPA conference hall. That at least gave me some idea about this year’s Drupa and this issue of Print Miracle has given enough coverage to the event. Thanks to Pradeep for contributing such a wonderful insights and information.

Now, my time to step down as the Editor is nearing. Soon there will be a new Editor for Print Miracle. I would like to see someone from the younger generation KMPA members, who can really spare more time than I could, to become the Editor of Print Miracle.

(P.S. Rajan)EditorFor commercial and editorial:

Kerala Master Printers’ Association Casa Grante Building, 2nd Floor, Deshabhimani Junction, Cochin - 682 017. Phone : 0484 - 4042715 E-mail : [email protected] [email protected] Website : www.kmpa.in

Published by Mr. R. Suresh, former President, KMPA on behalf of Kerala Master Printers Association, Cochin - 17 and printed by him at ST Reddiar & Sons, Cochin - 682 035 for Jasmine Grafix.

All rights reserved. Views expressed by the contributors are not necessarily those of the KMPA or the editor or the publisher and they accept no responsibility for them.

President’s Desk ...................................................................................................3Demystifying Drupa .............................................................................................4Enchanting East Europe .....................................................................................10East Europe in Album ........................................................................................12Know Your Member...........................................................................................19Komori LS 29 installed at ST Reddiar & Sons ..................................................20Purandara’s new investment ..............................................................................22KMPA 6th Managing Committee Meeting ........................................................25Paper Mills cut production .................................................................................27Interview with Muller Martini CEO ..................................................................28Industry News ....................................................................................................31


President’s Desk

Dear friends,

We’re back from Drupa at Dusseldorf, Germany, and an extended tour to Eastern Europe. Our company of 36 people, KMPA members and a few others of Kerala print fraternity have returned hale and hearty. Some KMPA members

had taken their families with them, some had brought along their employees – it was a very energetic team.

My colleague and KMPA General Secretary Manmohan Shenoy, has contributed an elaborate account of our East European sojourn for this issue of Print Miracle. And, Kulakkada Pradeep, who spent his 4 days exclusively at Drupa, has explained in detail the inside out of the expo in this issue. I must give the due credit to Sholey Kallelil, Managing Partner of Yesdee Graphics and a KMPA member, for clicking some wonderful photographs during the trip. All of the pictures used in the East Europe tour story are taken with his professional Nikon Digital camera. Since all the details of the trip are in the following pages, I don’t have to dwell into those, I hope. But see those pages about Drupa and East Europe dream trip. Perhaps, those of you haven’t made the trip this time, may decide to come with KMPA team when next Drupa happens.

There are also people like Jotty George, who have sacrificed the fun trip for a noble cause. Jotty initially wanted to join KMPA team for the Europe tour. But later he abandoned the plan, decided to use the money (around `2 lakhs) for charity. I am happy to see that there is such an exemplary philanthropist among us. Sacrificing personal indulgences for caring the less-fortunate people around us is something great.

Anyway, for the KMPA team, the two-week bliss is over and our minds are fresh now and ready to face the daily grind. Crucial issues are ahead. The Annual General Body Meeting of Kerala Master Printers Association has been fixed on July 30. Please remember that this is an election year for KMPA. I may step down as President and a new one will take over. We also have to elect other office-bearers for the next two years during the AGM. KMPA office has dispatched nomination papers for those who wish to contest the election. Those who intend to contest the election, be sure of submitting the paper on time. Let me remind you, all members who have complied with the association’s rules and regulations are eligible to contest the election.

KMPA has become a deep-rooted democratic organization since its transformation from the rule of long-term regimes – thanks to the elders who dedicated their lives for the growth of the association. In the last eight years there has been regular elections every two years and KMPA members have actively participated in this democratic process. So, I urge all the members to be part of this election at the AGM, which will be held at Holiday Inn Hotel, on July 30, 2016.

Editor P.S. Rajan missed the Drupa and East Europe visit as he was away in the US on a personal visit. But, he must be thankful to the people who were with us for the trip and contributed to the magazine with wonderful stories, filling at least ten pages!

Next time at least, try not to miss trips with the ‘KMPA family’. The request is to all KMPA members.

Thanks and regards,

G. Venugopal,President, KMPA


Demystifying Drupa

Demystify means “to make something easier to understand”, according to Oxford English Dictionary. KULAKKADA PRADEEP did the same in his two-hour session he described as‘what he saw, understood and analyzed’ during his three-and-half-days visit to Drupa 2016. Pradeep, a printing technologist and an avid enthusiast who studies innovations in printing field, presented ‘Demystifying Drupa’ on July 4, 2016, at KMPA Conference Hall after his return from the expo at Dusseldorf, Germany. He also had brought back from Drupa a load of materials printed with the most advanced technology to explain what is new in the world of

printing – not to mention the knowledge and information he gathered at the world’s biggest printing expo. For all those who visited Drupa from KMPA along with Pradeep, the information he shared at the session was an opportunity to recount and put in perspective what they saw at the expo. And for those who did not visit Drupa, the session was an eye-opener – or a window kept open to the expo through the invigorating power-point presentation, Pradeep painstakingly worked out burning mid-night oil several nights. Print Miracle presents here a synopsis of the session by KULAKKADA PRADEEP for our esteemed readers.


This year’s Drupa heralded the resurgence of Printing Industry with a lot of ‘undercurrents’ that

point to revolutionary changes that are happening in the Print Industry. For this reason, Drupa 2016 was upbeat and generated tremendous enthusiasm among the world printing fraternity, compared to Drupa 2012 that was overshadowed by the financial crisis which had taken the sheen out of the expo.

Andy McCourt, Editor, Print21.com, had said after Drupa 2012: “It was a quiet Drupa, but the business was still done. I really don’t think we are going to recognize our industry at the next Drupa, there is likely to be some good surprises and some bad ones. The industry must prepare for some major changes.”

McCourt’s words became true. This time, the trends were very optimistic and there were a lot of surprises. This was very evident at Dusseldorf in the form of new alliances between print industry manufacturers in the quest to give the best to the customers. And as the Drupa slogan said, the visitors could “Touch the Future.”

The exhibition was broadly divided into five sections, such as: Functional Printing, 3D Printing, Green Printing, Packaging Production, Multi-channel Printing. The sub-sections were: Pre-media/Multichannel, Post-press/Converting/Packaging, Future

technologies, Materials, Equipment/Service/Infrastructure, Used Machineries, and Drupa Innovation Centre (DIP).

2.84 lakh visitorsAt Drupa 2016 there were visitors

from 188 countries and a majority of the visitors was naturally from Germany – 40% of the visitors came different parts of the host country. But visitors from India came at the second place – with

8% of our countrymen visiting the world’s largest printing industry expo, which shows how much importance Indians give to Drupa. The number of Indian visitors grew to 28,000 compared to 15,000 at Drupa 2012.

The Top 5 countries in number of visitors are: India (8%), Belgium (7%), France (7%), The Netherlands (6%) and Great Britain & Northern Ireland (5%).Region-wise the percentage of visitors: Europe (56%), Asia (21%), South and Central America (9%), Middle East (6%), Africa (6%), North America (5%) and Australia/Oceana (3%).

Apart from the visitors, there were 1,900 media persons from 74 countries.

1,843 ExhibitorsOut of 1,843 exhibitors from 52

countries participated in Drupa 2016, 612 exhibitors were German companies, occupying 60,753 sq.m. space at the exhibition grounds. There were 1,231 exhibitors from rest of the world, occupying 10,235 sq.m. HP stall was the biggest one at this Drupa where nearly 50 of their machines displayed. The top Digital products were: Heidelberg’s Primefire & Omnifire 1000/250, Landa S10 Sheetfed and Straight Printing, Komori Impremia IS 29, Canon OCE Varioprint i300, Xerox Brenva HD &Trivor 2400, Kodak Nexpress & Ultrastream, Xeikon Trillium One,

KMPA President G. Venugopal welcoming the participants at Demystifying Drupa session held at KMPA Hall.

The participants at Demystifying Drupa session listen keenly Pradeep Kulakkada’s explanations.


Konica Minolta KM 1 and KBA Varijet.

Main Attractions One of the main attractions was an

array of pre-press software. One of the software provides the facility to convert any type of file to the type a printer wanted to convert. Most of the software were based on In-Design programme and provide easy conversion to any file can be ‘dragged and dropped’ to be converted into the form one needs. A software called IC 3D, a useful software for packaging printing attracted many. Another major attraction was digital die-cutting machines. Around a dozen companies displayed these digital die-cutting technologies that can cut out any shape or dimension, without any die. A number of specialized inks were another major crowd-puller. Benny Landa, of course, put on an amazing show that drew heavy traffic to the stand,

Some of the KMPA team members had a chance encounter with Narendra Parachuri (Pragati Offset, Hyderabad) and his son at the Drupa grounds.


KMPA President, G. Venugopal unfurls the Association’s banner at the entrance of Drupa ground in Dusseldorf, Germany. Below: KMPA members taking rounds at the Drupa exhibition stalls.


which was double the size of Landa’s Drupa 2012 stand. The company’s presses using Landa Nanography were unveiled at Drupa 2012 and are still not commercially available. Nonetheless, Landa reported that more than 200,000 visitors came through its stand, resulting in several orders for presses to be delivered sometime in 2017.

Some 44 Indian companies exhibited their products with Line O’Matic occupying the biggest stall among them. There were a total of 19 huge halls in which 1,837 stalls of top print industry companies displayed their products.

Business Deals Around 29% who visited Drupa 2016

placed orders for new machinery and materials and 30% are in the process of placing orders sooner or later. Nearly 54% visitors came to Drupa with definite investment plans and 60% visitors found new suppliers.

Digital embellishment solution provider Scodix reported that more than 100 new customers from 21 countries were added to its books. Halfway into

the show, orders received were already set to double the company’s installed base. In addition, dozens of letters of intent were signed for its new high-end press, the E106 B1 press running at up to 4,000 sheets per hour and being shown as a technology demonstration at the show. The new press can be modularly configured with any or all of the options Scodix offers, including spot varnish, Braille, digital embossing, variable data finishes and foil, all in a single press.

HP Indigo closed is largest sale ever with 25 HP Indigo 12000 presses being sold to photo products company Shutterfly – with everything to be installed this summer to be prepared for the company’s peak season. On the same day, the company announced a sale of about 20 HP Indigo presses to Cimpress, the parent company of Vistaprint, with more than half to be installed by the end of the year. And those were just the tip of the iceberg for HP. The company pegged it as “the best Drupa ever”, well-exceeding ambitious 2016 worldwide goals and surpassing Drupa 2012 sales results by 25 percent.

A beautiful model wearing a paper-made dress attracted many visitors at the Drupa exhibition.


EnchantingSight-seeing spree by the KMPA

team started at Dusseldorf itself. Nobody wanted to sit idle at the

hotel room despite busy Drupa visit, so they explored in and around Dusseldorf, where the Drupa exhibition grounds are located. After the fair timing the members hanged out at places of interest near Dusseldorf – Alstadt, Cologne etc. As the sun sets only by 8.30 pm, we had plenty of time in the evenings. Alstadt is in old Dusseldorf and has a river side shopping centre, located on the banks of the river Rhine. Cologne is home to the famous centuries old Cathedral. We did some shopping (mostly window shopping) and spent leisurely time strolling on the streets.

We stayed at a small, sleepy but most scenic and beautiful town called Kevelear, about 60 kms from Dusseldorf. Kevelear is a famous pilgrimage destination for the Basilica

Czech Republic, on Saturday, June 4, 2016.

After an hour’s flight, the team landed in Prague Airport. Forgetting about the fatigue of wandering around in Dusseldorf and Drupa, in the afternoon we went on a boat cruise in the Vltava River, which crisscrosses through Prague. Discovering Prague’s main waterside attractions on this gentle river cruise through the centre of the city, we spent about two hours, enjoying the sights from the comfortable interior of the boat.

Prague is a magical city of bridges, cathedrals, gold-tipped towers and church domes. Prague’s medieval centre remains a wonderful mixture of cobbled lanes, walled courtyards, cathedrals and countless church spires. Prague is also a modern and vibrant city, full of energy, music, cultural art, fine dining and night life. Prague was founded in the late 9th

East Europe was unknown territory to the rest of the world for decades, hidden KMPA team chose to explore the less-visited part of Europe just to experience the

MANMOHAN SHENOY, KMPA General Secretary, narrates the

of Virgin Mary. It is said that Virgin Mary appeared at this place. A large neo-Gothic church built in 1858 with a 90-meter-high tower, the Basilica’s interior is beautifully decorated by paintings, murals and windows. The Basilica was damaged during the Second World War. Although it was saved from complete destruction, a bomb damaged some of the walls, windows and murals. More than 1 million pilgrims, mostly from Germany and the Netherlands, visit Kevelaer every year. The population of the town is around 30,000. There are several other old and magnificent churches in Kevelear.

Magical PragueAfter spending three days in

Dusseldorff, as per our plan of an extended trip to some Eastern European countries, we left for Prague (pronounced as Praha), the capital of

A panoramic view of Budapest.


East Europebehind the Iron Curtain of Soviet control. It is no longer an isolated region. charm of Prague, Budapest, Vienna and the East European countryside. experiences of a great journey with photographs by SHOLEY KALLELIL.

The KMPA team at the Heroes’ Square, Budapest


The East European AlbumLadies inside the Prague Castle

Prague by night

The lady tour guide leads KMPA team inside Vienna Palace

Boat cruise in Vltava river in Prague

A sculpture inside Budapest Palace

The magnificent Schonbrun

Palace in Vienna

Inside the magnificent Opera House, Budapest


A group of KMPA members in front of a Church in Cologne.

An antique mode of travel at Bratislava Castle

Kerala-style dance inside the Bratislava Palace

Trying a hand at our own desi autorikshaw in Budapest

Inside old Vienna

Two senior KMPA

members in traditional

Kerala attire with the

tour guide at Heros’

Square, Budapest

A surprise inside the BratislavaPalace


Bridge, Old Town Square, the famous Astronomical Clock, Tyn and St.Nicolas Churches.

Prague Castle is the most popular and visited sight in Prague. Its history goes back to the 9th century and it has always been the seat of the Czech rulers. Nowadays it is the seat of the President. The castle has three courtyards.

Golden Lane, called Zlataulicka in Czech language, is located in eastern part of the Prague Castle. Its tiny colorful cottages were originally built for the castle guards in the 16th century. It was later used by by renowned artists like Franc Kafka, Jaroslav Seifert. At the west end is Bilavez (White Tower), at the east end is Daliborka Tower (former prison).

St. Vitus Cathedral, is a magnificent Gothic cathedral. It is the spiritual symbol of the country, founded by Charles IV in the place of the original Romanesque rotunda in 1344. Traditional glass windows enhance beautiful interior. We entered the cathedral from the western main entrance, through the doors on the left, exited through the doors on the right. From the Great Tower we enjoyed fabulous panoramic view of Prague.

Old Royal Palace is constructed in Renaissance style. The architectural beauty of the palace is so enchanting that one can spent a whole day wandering

around it. Roaming inside the St. George’s Basilica, founded 920 by Prince Vratislav I and rebuilt in the 12th century and in 17th century, was another wonderful experience .

Old Town Square is the heart of Prague with its Astronomical Clock, an imposing structure of a 60-meter tower. Nearby is the gothic Church of Our Lady Before Tyn. The 80 meter high gothic style church was built 1360-1511, rebuilt in 1876-1895. We enjoyed the view of Prague from the viewing terrace accessible through the church. Evening was spent exploring more of Prague city and shopping.

Pompous ViennaThe next destination was Vienna,

capital of Austria. On Monday, June 6, we left Prague for Vienna by road. The nearly two-and-a-half hour’s drive itself was a sightseeing opportunity, as the scenic beauty was too good to be explained in words. Vast areas of mustard and lavender fields added contrasting colours to the greenery. After checking in to our hotel in Vienna, some

century and soon became the seat of Bohemian kings.

On Sunday, June 5, we set off for a city tour of Prague and visited Prague Castle, St. Vitus Cathedral, Old Royal Palace, Basilica of St.George, Golden Lane, Hradcanske Square, Charles

A horse-carriage for tourists to ride in Prague.

St. Vitus Cathedral, Prague.

KMPA President G. Venugopal with his wife in front of statue of Mozart in Vienna.


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of the members had a siesta while some ventured to the huge Mall located just across the street.

We had a city tour of Vienna on Tuesday, June 7. We started with the splendid Schönbrunn Palace and later visited other historic places including St. Stephen’s Cathedral, the Ringstrasse with its magnificent buildings, such as the Museum of Applied Arts, the State Opera, the Museum of Fine Arts, the Museum of Natural History, Hofburg (Imperial Winter Palace), the Parliament, the City Hall, the Burg Theater, the University as well as the Church of Vows. Evening was spent exploring Vienna city and shopping.

Vienna is the largest city in Austria with its population of more than 1.7 million. Buzzing restaurants, coffee houses, innovative museums, absurdly

continued our journey to Budapest and reached Budapest at around 8 pm.

The next day, Thursday June 9, we left out for a city tour of Budapest. We started with the Heroes’ Square (with statues of the most famous Hungarian kings and dukes), St. Stephen’s Basilica. Chain Bridge, the Parliament, the Margaret Bridge, Matthias Church, the Fishermen’s Bastion (from where you can enjoy the beautiful panorama), the Gellért Hill (Citadel), the Elisabeth Bridge, the famous Central Market Hall, the largest Synagogue of Europe and finally the Opera House. We had a guided trip of the magnificent Opera House. Evening was spent exploring the Vienna city and shopping.

Friday, June 10, was the last day of the week-long east European trip. After a late breakfast we left for Budapest airport for our flight to Dubai and then to Kochi.

Overall it was a very memorable trip which every member will cherish for life long and moreover this trip created a great bonding among all the family members who came along.

pompous architecture and the sheer quality of life are the characteristics of Vienna.

Charming BudapestThe next day, Wednesday, June 8, we

left for Budapest, the capital of Hungary by road. En-route, we visited Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia. We visited important places and historical sights, such as the Presidential Palace, Eurovea – the modern city center, the National Theatre, a unique Art Nouveau church, Bratislava Castle and Napoleon´s Hill with their splendid panoramic views, the charming squares and narrow lanes of the Old Town, St. Michael´s Gate, the University Istropolitana, St. Martin´s Cathedral, the Primatial Palace, Old Town Hall and the Opera House.

On way from Bratislava to Hungary, there is a village named Porndorf and the attraction of this place is that there are hundreds of retail shops of almost all international brands – all in a row – that too visitors can buy articles at bargain prices. All members made purchases to their satisfaction. Afterwards we

View of the Prague Palace. Some of the KMPA members in Budapest.

Clock tower inside Prague palace. Boat ride through Vlatva river in Prague.


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Know your member...

Every self-made entrepreneur who ever lived started with nothing more than an idea. T.N. Sajeevan,

owner of Sree Narayana Printing Works, Aluva, didn’t even have an ‘idea’, forget about funds or family legacy, when he started a printing venture 30 years back. He was a 17-year-old lad, confused about his future and perturbed about how to take care of his family of three elder sisters and aged mother. His father had died during his school days and for Sajeevan as a teenager, the priority was not education, but a means to win daily bread for his family.

“I am the youngest one among the four siblings, the kid brother of my three elder sisters. But I was not a pampered kid, despite being the youngest. Perhaps, after father’s death everyone in the family had become a bit anxious about future and had no time to indulge me,” Sajeevan recounts hard days in his teens devoid of the fun boys usually enjoy.

So how did he become a print entrepreneur without an idea, funds and family legacy and would build up three successful printing establishments? “My sisters are all well-educated, all of them did their post-graduation and were trying to get good jobs. But you know, in the Eighties in Kerala, a good job was hard to get. So, two of my sisters applied for bank loans to start a book binding venture under the self-employment scheme of the state government. Luckily, both of them got the loan of `25,000 each,” Sajeevan says.

So did they start the binding unit? “No. The bank manager, a gentleman known to us, advised my sisters to start a small printing unit with binding facility with the loan amount. That was a turning point to us. I was studying for pre-degree at that time. Fifty thousand rupees fund has come to us and I kept aside my studies, plunged without thinking into unknown waters with strong under currents – the printing field.

The teen who became a press ownert.N. Sajeevan, owner of Sree Narayana Printing Works, Aluva

It was a very small unit, Sajeevan and his sisters started and none of them had an iota of knowledge about printing! But they were determined and hard-working sibilings. Sajeevan became a college dropout, concentrated on the small printing unit. “I had no idea about how to run a printing unit and was kind of madly chasing the dream of making it a success,” Sajeevan remembers. But, he had a ‘method in his madness’. That ‘method’ made him successful.

Time flew away and now Sajeevan has three successful printing establishments where 65 people are employed. In the meantime, all three of his sisters got good jobs as they were well-qualified. Sajeevan made sure his sisters getting married to good families and they are all well settled.

Sree Narayana Group is now a known entity in Kerala’s printing field. Since its humble beginning in 1984, Sree Narayana Printing Works has added new machinery and expanded the unit. In 2001 the press upgraded as an offset one with a mini-offset from Autoprint. Two years later an HMT mini-offset

was added and 12 years back the press joined the big league of printers with the installation of Komori-426. The press also purchased a Welbound 6-clamp online binding machine, 2 CtP machines (TechNova and Kodak) and a Sakurai Automatic UV spot machine.

While all this expansions were progressing, Sajeevan got married to Sandhya, who now looks after the production at the press. The couple has two children – Son Arjun, doing BCom and daughter Gopika, who is in 7th standard. Arjun is following his father’s footsteps and is already an expert in running the Komori!

Sajeevan’s other two units are Arjuna Print & Packs and SN Digital Printing. The two units are nearby the flagship establishment Sree Narayana Printing Works, at Paravur Kavala, on the outskirts of Aluva.

So that’s a success story Sajeevan has narrated leaving one last question – does he have any regrets about leaving his studies when he was just a teenager? “No regrets… I have learned more from my life than from the usual college education.”

Sajeevan at his office at Sree Narayana Printing Works, Aluva


It’s a practice at ST Reddiar & Sons (Ekm) that every ten years they upgrade capacity by investing in

new machinery based on customer need and the changing requirements of print-buyers. As it was time for the ‘rejuvenation ritual’ this year, Kerala’s topmost print establishment did the same with installation of a brand new Komori LS 29 (six colour plus coater with UV), first of its kind in Kerala – or probably the first of its kind in India (considering the additional special features of the machine).

“We did the inaugural run of the machine on April 29 after almost three weeks of training given to the staff by the Komori engineers,” says Magesh Karthik, the scion of the ST Reddiar family. “I wanted to do a job that would test the real quality of the machine on the inaugural run, so we did a Ganapati print on a 300 gsm silver MetPET sheet, with opaque white base, four-colour

and drip-off UV coating. The result was awesome! In the first look at the print I realized, we can make wonders in printing with this machine,” Magesh says gleefully.

The new Komori is not the only one among S.T. Reddiar’s new investments – STR has made some more new buys recently like AGS (sample carton maker), and NAPH (Web-offset machine for newspaper printing – 20 pages with 12 pages 4-color; 2 4Hi Towers and 2 Penta Towers with automated register control) and few others. “As I said earlier, it’s our business strategy every decade to strengthen our capacity. This helps us to stay on the top in the field. Some of these new investments are made on the basis of customer requirement and others are with the intention of attracting new print buyers. Of course, I painstakingly do study on new machines and technology before making purchases,” Magesh said.

sT Reddiar & sons installs ‘all-purpose’ Komori Ls 29

What kind of new job orders Magesh expects the new Komori to fetch for STR? “See, my idea is to make use of the umpteen features the machine has. It’s a ‘concept machine’… it’s not that I will use the machine only for packaging printing… or, just for commercial printing… or UV jobs. It’s an all-purpose machine; we don’t have to outsource any job a customer demands,” Magesh says.

The Komori LS 29 is housed at ST Reddiar’s unit at Kakkanad. “We have trained six people to run the machine three shifts, as we expect loads of work will have to be done on that. The staff members have learned thoroughly to run the machine. Komori had sent a Japanese engineer from their headquarters to teach the staff on how to make use of all the special features the machine offers. Engineers from India were not completely conversant with the special features as these are introduced first time in India,” Magesh concludes.

Magesh Karthik Suresh and his brother S. Rajendran with the new Komori LS 29 installed at ST Reddiar & Sons (Ekm).


Cochin based Purandara Laser Technologies has recently installed brand new Die-board

Laser Cutting machine and CNC Engraving machine to enhance the range of tools they create. “The brand new laser built by Suntex Co Ltd is completely powered by Fanuc Laser system and this is for the first time that Japanese Laser technology is being harnessed for making precision punching tools in India. This machine is of fixed optics type that enables high precision and low cost in use,” said Raju N. Kutty, Director of Purandara Laser Technologies.

Purandara invests in new laser cutting & engraving machines

The Purandara team poses in front of the Suntex die-board laser cutting machine.

A board engraved in the CNC Engraving machine at Purandara.

With the addition of CNC Engraving technology, Purandara has also started providing Embossing/Foiling tools with high quality.

The use of precision tooling helps in creating high detail and also allows the creation of Micro Embossing and Multiple Level Embossing.

These investments are in line with Purandara’s objectives of providing quality tooling and contemporary technology for their clientele which includes Packaging, Printing, Blister Packs, Fabriqe appliqués and many more applications which require quality die-cutting.

We focus so much on the benefits of 3D printing that we sometimes forget that every

new process brings its own dangers and problems. New research has shown that 3D printing could open the door to a new level of industrial sabotage on a scale we simply haven’t seen before.

The news sounds a little sensationalist and it seems like the precursor to a sales pitch for security systems. Indeed, the only way to read the full paper is to buy it. But there is some solid reasoning going on here from the NYU Tandon School of Engineering in JOM, The Journal of The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society.

NYU professor Nikhil Gupta, the lead author of the paper, claims we need to think about these problems sooner rather than later or face the prospect of

3D printing may open door to new industrial sabotageproduct recalls and lawsuits.

“These are possible foci for attacks that could have devastating impact on users of the end product, and economic impact in the form of recalls and lawsuits,” said Gupta, a noted materials researcher and an associate professor of mechanical engineering at the New York University Tandon School of Engineering.

Gupta even suggested that hackers could achieve their goals by altering the orientation of the product during printing, which could reduce its strength by 25%. This kind of interference would be exceptionally difficult to detect.

When a traditional production line is locked in place then every part of the process has been inspected and checked. Then it simply repeats the same process as many times as required.

3D printing is different. There is no tooling and, in essence, it’s a new process every time. So technically a hacker could gain access to the 3D printers and actually design in a flaw that would only become apparent when a car’s brakes shattered under duress, an aeroplane’s parts fail to function or medicines simply don’t work.

We rely more and more on connected devices, virtually every 3D printer in the modern age is connected to the web and the Internet of Things means that our devices will be able to interact.

That’s a good thing and it should give us the opportunity to streamline production even further and take 3D print manufacturing into a golden age. But it also creates security concerns and these are issues that we will have to tackle at some point.


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The 6th and last meeting of the current KMPA Managing Committee was held on July

16, 2016 at IMA House, Ernakulam, presided by President G. Venugopal. The members after paying their respects to K.V. George, father of Yeldho K. George (Geo Print Shop), who passed away on March 28, 2016 entered into the day’s agenda.

After welcoming the participants of the meeting President Venugopal informed the meeting his intention to step down as President as the two-year term was set to end. He also formally announced the election of new office-bearers at the Annual General Body to be held on July 30, 2016 at Holiday Inn, Cochin.

As Jotty George of Maptho Printers

Preparations for AGM 2016 discussed at 6th KMPA Managing Committee Meeting

entered the Board Room President Venugopal greeted him and announced the decision of the Managing Committee to felicitate the young Mr. George during the Annual General Body Meeting on July 30, 2016 at Holiday Inn to honour his philanthropy activities. It was welcomed by the members with applause and Jotty agreed to receive the felicitation due to the persuasion by all.

The President thanked all his colleagues for their unstinting support he received in leading the association for the last two years. He also expressed his gratitude to the seniors of KMPA for their advices on crucial issues. Venugopal said the two years as KMPA President has been very gratifying that he could contribute his bit to steer the association to a better level

of functioning. Also, he said, KMPA could carry out more responsibilities such as holding the first edition of Print Miracle Expo and KMPA Awards in December 2014 and Print & Beyond Seminar in the last 2 years. He expressed his utmost satisfaction in the conduct of Printing Technology courses under the government’s Additional Skills Acquisition Programme (ASAP) undertaken by KMPA.

Another achievement the President said that he is proud of was the purchase of 430 sq. feet plot adjoining to KMPA office and the remodeling of the office and conference hall. He expressed his thankfulness to Nazir Marikavil, who brilliantly planned and executed the remodeling of KMPA office and conference hall. The President also

The Managing Committee meeting held at IMA House.


proudly announced that the financial situation of the association has improved in the last 2 years.

The next in the agenda was the adoption of Minutes of 5th Managing Committee Meeting held on April 2, 2016 at Hotel Horizon, Trivandrum. General Secretary Manmohan Shenoy presented the minutes and it was approved by the members after K.P. Uthup proposing the approval and Roy Thomas seconding it.

As the highlight of the Managing Committee Meeting in Trivandrum the General Secretary pointed to the donation by KMPA of `50,000 to a needy printer named Sunil Kumar who is suffering from kidney ailment whose wife is a cancer patient. K.C. Sanjeev, AIFMP GC Member from KMPA promised to contribute a sum (`15,000 a year) towards the educational expenses of the children of Sunil Kumar.

Another related event to the Managing Committee meeting was the members visiting a former member who leads a retired life in Trivandrum. P.R. Nair, founder of Swagat Printers in Trivandrum, was KMPA General Secretary for nine long years and has contributed immensly to the growth of the association in its developing stages.

Mr. Nair was extremely pleased to see his old collageaus after along time and they shared memories of good old days.

The General Secretary also submitted Activity Report for the period of April 2-July 15, 2016 for the approval of the members.

Presentation of the annual accounts was next. Treasurer B.K.

Rajan submitted the copy of audited accounts to the meeting for approval. After clearing all doubts asked by the committee members, the accounts statement was cleared with few corrections. The Annual Accounts will be presented to all members at the AGM. There was also a discussion on the pending payments of advertisement in Print Miracle and it was told the concerned people to follow up the collection of the dues and settle it as soon as possible.

The website of KMPA came under review at the meeting and members complained the site was not being updated despite paying money to the outsourced website manager. The committee made it clear that this was not permissible and told to the concerned people to look into the matter and take corrective steps.

The venue for the AGM on July 30 was announced at the MC meeting as Holiday Inn. The committee members were also informed KMPA is trying to bring in the Mayor of Cochin Corporation Soumini Jain as the Chief Guest. All the details of the coming AGM was discussed elaborately at the meeting and entrusted some of the committee members with duties each has to do for AGM.

Activity ReportsCommittee Chairmen submitted their

reports for the attention of the Managing Committee members. Membership Promotion Committee Chairman Raju N. Kutty said his efforts to induct more eligible printers from different parts of the State, especially from Calicut and Trivandrum, have resulted in

some new members joining KMPA. Around 30 members have not yet paid the annual membership subscription and the meeting told the Executive Secretary to follow up the matter. It was also announced at the meeting that permanent defaulters will be dismissed from the association if they don’t pay the subscription after repeated notices to them.

G. Rajesh, Chairman of Training & HRD said KMPA’s training courses under ASAP are progressing well and the internship of the last batch is underway. Under the Community College programme, students from IPT Shoranur will soon start their practical training at various presses of KMPA members.

The members admired Rajesh’s efforts in managing his portfolio well.

Nazir M., Chairman of Land & Building said in his report that his plan to build the facility for pre-press training inside the hall has yet to be realized. For that, the decision to start the training centre must be taken first, then the preparation for the facility shall be initiated.

Chairman of Govt. Affairs & Taxation Roy Thomas mentioned about loan scheme for entrepreneurs under the Prime Minister’s Make in India programme, in his report. Printing establishments can avail of loans under the scheme and said he will provide the details of the scheme after carefully studying it.

After discussing all the matters arising out of the agenda it was time for the Vote of Thanks. O. Venugopal delivered a brief thanks to all the participants and the meeting was adjourned for dinner.

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Loopholes in India’s import policy has caused nearly half of the country’s over 100 paper mills to

stop production, while the rest function at 60 percent of their potential capacity, the newsprint industry body said recently.

“This import policy has led to the creation of a parallel industry, and has posed harsh setbacks to the formerly flourishing industry, causing nearly half of the 121 mills to stop production and the rest to function at 60 percent of their potential capacity,” Indian Newsprint Manufacturers Association (INMA) Secretary General Vijay Kumar said.

Warning that the permanent closure of all domestic newsprint mills is a serious threat, Kumar pointed out that newsprint is currently imported at

Flawed import policy forces paper mills to cut production

$500 per million tonnes which is $100 less than both the selling cost within exporting countries and the cost of production in Indian mills.

“However newsprint is classified as a restricted item and only actual users are permitted to import newsprint duty-free,” he said.

“Third parties are taking undue advantage of a loophole in the import policy and its circulars that have created a safe passage for importing newsprint duty-free,” he added.

India’s consumption of newsprint currently is around 2.7 million tonnes, while domestic mills can meet a demand of up to 2 million tonnes.

Urging immediate government action in plugging the loophole in import of newsprint, Kumar said: “Allowing cheap

imports to continue will not only result in loss of revenue, but will also lead to the unemployment of over one million people who are currently engaged in the newsprint industries.”

The sale of imported newsprint in non-standard sizes and of low “grammage”, or paper density, by third parties poses yet another danger to the newsprint industry, he said.

In this connection, the Indian Newspaper Society’s previous president Ravindra Kumar has said that the health of Indian newspapers is also being undermined by rising costs, especially by the fall in the value of the rupee “that directly impacts our cost of production, since a large quantity of newsprint that we consume is still imported”.


The eleven eventful days at Drupa are now a thing of the past, how do you rate the event

from Muller Martini’s perspective?Bruno Müller (BM): I consider it to be an outright success. We are not only highly satisfied with the number of visitors, we also received lots of positive customer feedback about how we presented our offering, both as regards our machines and our services. The way we explained our core topic of Finishing 4.0 in a clear and impressive manner surprised many visitors.

Does the large number of visitors from the very first day then lead you to conclude that Muller Martini, with its key topic of Finishing 4.0 and the buzz words of consistent automation, integration, variable, customized products, touchless workflow, addressed precisely what the graphic arts industry is interested in?BM: Yes, because I’m convinced that there is major potential for development in customized, variable and high-quality printed matter. However, it needs to be produced efficiently. We showed how to do that with specific, practical applications and demanding live

Bruno Müller: ‘our participation at Drupa left a convincing impression’Bruno Müller looks back at the company’s successful participation at Drupa. the CEO of Muller Martini was particularly delighted by all the positive customer feedback with regard to the booth’s concept. Print Miracle reproduces a detailed interview with Mr. Muller.

presentations. That left a convincing impression on many visitors to the booth.

how did the customers comment on the integrated solutions and the demos with complex hybrid products?BM: What our visitors liked in particular was the design of the booth – how they were able to enter the topic of Finishing 4.0 in the tower and get a perfect overview of all our live products from a bird’s eye perspective. I met the most varied people from the graphic arts industry and from various major businesses – publishers as well as printers, representatives of management and machine operators. Many visitors had something of an “Aha!” effect from the way we presented new business models for the future at the fair. That was equally the case for visitors who already have experience in digital printing as well as for conventional printers and finishers who have not yet considered the topic of digital.

Positive responses from visitors are one thing, investment decisions and projects lined up are another. How satisfied are you with the sales concluded at Drupa?

BM: The fair was also very successful for us in this regard. As we presented new ideas to our customers with future-driven production processes, various projects are also lined up for the future. What’s important now is to process these projects rapidly and to hopefully complete many of them.

Three days before the end of Drupa, the fair management announced that the next Drupa will not be held in 2019 as originally planned, but in 2020 in the usual four-year cycle. how do you view this decision?BM: It’s the right thing to do in my view. After all, we want to impress at Drupa with several machines, but the expense involved is considerable. For this year’s fair, for instance, we moved more than 200 tons of material to Düsseldorf in 27 trucks on 258 pallets and invested three weeks in installing the booth. What’s more, in addition to 30 technicians, we also had more than 100 sales experts and product managers of sales companies from all continents in permanent deployment. In light of these figures, it’s understandable that we prefer the four-year cycle, and we’re now already looking forward to Drupa 2020.


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Line O Matic, a leading company and pioneer for exercise notebook machinery and paper converting

machinery in India, has successfully demonstrated at Drupa 2016 its fully automatic exercise book machine – Bolt RB104 with speed of 400 meters per minute and 60 strokes per minute to make staple pin type exercise notebooks. Major benefits of the Bolt RB104 includes better speed, higher efficiency, increased productivity &reliability, higher quality output & more effective operator-friendly control systems.

The company had organized non-stop working demonstration of Bolt RB104for entire duration of exhibition. More than 1200 visitors visited Line O Matic stall at Drupa and saw the Bolt RB104 in running condition. All visitors were astonished after seeing the machine in running at any time without waiting for specific demo-time.

The company received an excellent response at Drupa booked more than 20 machines.Visitors also appreciated the Line O Matic stall, the biggest amongst all Indian exhibitors.

The company has presence in 50+ countries with over 2000 machines sold

Line o Matic showcases Bolt RB104 at Drupa

the world over and expanding in more number of countries with its complete range of exercise notebook machinery and other paper converting machinery.

The company has fully automatic exercise notebook machinery for making staple pin notebook, central sewn notebook, glue bound notebook, drawing book& photocopy paper. In addition to

The Line O Matic Bolt RB104 at Drupa stall.

these,company has recently introduced FRM 15 - folio size ream wrapping machine for wrapping folio size sheets and CSS 100 - A4 Cut Size Sheeter with 100 tones capacity per day.

Overall the exhibition was most successful in Line O Matic history and the company is expecting good business in coming years.

Vinsak, a leading manufacturer and distributor of total printing and finishing solutions in

India, Middle-East and Africa region has launched their latest innovation in label finishing segment, the Vinsak USAR, a complete modular machine which is capable of servo register for die-cutting of blank as well as pre-printed labels. Vinsak also supplies magnetic cylinder adapters for using your existing magnetic cylinder of your flexo machines. Hence, no need to invest again in expensive tooling. The machine is fully modular and can be configured as per customer requirement.

Vinsak launches USAR for label finishingThe machine is available in

web width from 250mm to 530mm, wherein the unwind is a standard 700mm and the maximum rewind up to 450mm in twin rewind mode or 700mm in single rewind mode. It is independently driven and variable for both speed and tension control with various features added and is up-gradable to add die-cutting, Variable data printing and 100% inspection, adjustable splicing table with pneumatic clamps for removal of waste product. The maximum mechanical speed is up to 300m/min.

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The Salem Offset Printers Association (SOPA) during its Annual General Body

Meeting held on June 19, 2016 at Hotel Ganesh Mahal, Salem, elected new office-bearers of the association. K.M. Sampath Kumar (Minerva Offset Printers) was elected as the new President, S. Srinivasan (General Printers) General Secretary; K.N. Prabakaran (Sundar Computer Offset) Treasurer. The Executive Committee members were also elected by the General Body.

All the newly-elected office-bearers took charge of their respective posts in the presence of the association’s Founder V. Muthu Gopala Krishnan and Immediate Past President A. Karmeham.

SOPA elects office-bearers



India’s leading winning edge solutions provider for printing and packaging industry Monotech Systems sold the

first Focus Proflex E Press to Mumbai-based Glamod Techno Labels. The deal was finalized at Drupa 2016, Dusseldorf, Germany.

Proflex (e-version) flexo press is the latest offering from Focus Label Machinery, UK and was recently launched in Labelexpo Europe 2015. The latest Proflex range of modular printing presses are available with Servo drive technology (Se version) or line shaft (e-version). The new drop in Cylinders ensures fast set up and consistent quality printing throughout the press speed. Combination drying systems for labels, tickets & board, with IR, UV, led UV including chill rolls for unsupported films make the Proflex range the right choice for narrow web printing at a sensible investment level.

Glamod Techno labels is a new company formed after merger of M/s Glamour Graphics and M/s Modern Printing Industries, both from Mumbai where the first company was a leading provider of pre-press services and other one has the expertise of commercial printing and manufacturing of all types of self-adhesive rotary printed labels for pharma, cosmetics etc.

Deepak R Bedi, Glamod Techno Labels says, “Printing today requires the ability and confidence to serve a wide range of markets. The ability to produce small volumes balanced with high productivity, cost-efficient operation and versatility while maintaining key elements of quality are essential. Considering these, we are happy to have Focus Proflex as a great value addition to our production portfolio. We are associated with Monotech Systems for a long and have basysPrint UV CtP systems at our place. Other advantage of having Focus is that it is being offered in India by Monotech Systems which has a good brand value, reputation and excellent technical support.”

Monotech Systems Ltd is a leading

manufacturer and Solution Provider of high-end, high performance and reliable products and solutions for printing, packaging industry in India representing a number of world renowned companies and has pioneered the introduction of modern equipment and systems to the Indian Printing industry

Focus Label Machinery Ltd was formed in 1981, with over 35 years of previous experience in manufacturing

equipment for the narrow web label & Packaging print industry. This experience has enabled us to become market leaders in our industry and over the years our international presence has grown with us now exporting our products across all continents. Focus covers a range of sectors from Food Packing & Labelling, Chemicals, to Textiles, Garments & branding identification.

Monotech sells first Focus Proflex E Press at Drupa

(From Left to Right) Deepesh Gupta (Glamod Techno Labels), TP Jain (Monotech Systems), Praveen Gupta (Glamod Techno Labels), Deepak Bedi (Glamod Techno Labels)

Kodak marked a significant milestone in the worldwide adoption of its industry-leading

flexographic plate technology with the 500th order of a Kodak Flexcel NX System. Multidruk, a Polish flexographic prepress provider that is also expanding its services to the rest of Europe, returned to Drupa 2016 placed an order for its second Flexcel NX System. The new Flexcel NX Wide System will be an addition to the mid-sized device they ordered at the show in 2012.

Marcin Jastrzębski, owner of

Multidruk, commented: “Our purchase of Kodak’s Flexcel NX System four years ago was the best investment we have ever made; it has enabled us to grow our customer base and expand beyond Poland’s borders. The print quality that this system enables printers to produce can be compared to gravure, which enabled many brands switch to flexo over the past few years for the production of their flexible packaging. This new investment will allow us to expand our plate production and keep up with growing market demand for Kodak FlexcelNX Plates.”

Kodak Flexcel nx system bags 500th order at Drupa



Prof. LuoXueke, Vice Chancellor of the Beijing Institute of Graphic Communication (BIGC), China;

Prof. B. A.Chopade, Vice Chancellor, Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University, Aurangabad (BAMU) and Ms. Zhang Sheru, Director of International Cooperation & Exchange Office, BIGC jointly released the book ‘Recreating History of Printing’ written by Prof. Kamal Chopra. The book was released in a simple but elegant ceremony in the presence of print literates and faculty of BAMU.

Speaking on the occasion Prof. Kamal Chopra said, an effort was made in 2006 to produce history of printing in the form of table calendar, the small

Book by Kamal Chopra on history of Printing releasedeffort was acclaimed world over and the calendar found space in the Printing History Museum at Beijing. Present book is the rebirth of that famous 13 page calendar with some now information and recent details and it is being published on the suggestions of some friend for the benefit of the students and teachers in printing.

Commenting on the book, the world print Guru, Prof. Frank Romano, RIT USA said, ‘This chronology by Kamal Chopra highlights the important mileposts in the advancement of print. It is also testament to the resilience and perseverance of printers’. Kunio Ishibashi, GM Japan Federation of Printing Industries said, ‘Recreating

History of Printing is very good guide to understand full depth of history and importance of Printing.’

Speaking on the occasion, Prof. Chopade said, ‘it is an international event forward for the book written by an Indian is written by print gurus from USA and Japan and today it is being released by the Vice Chancellors of Indian and Beijing universities, it is the befitting tribute to the author Prof. Kamal Chopra who is an renowned international personality in the Print World.’

The book with is priced at `750 (US $50) and is available with the publishers, Foil Printers, Ludhiana ([email protected])

The Delhi Printers’ Association (DPA) has elected the new Managing Committee for the

year 2016-17 at its Annual General Meeting held on April 22, 2016. Sunil Jain (Graphic Print) was elected President, Rajiv Gupta (Press of India) General Secretary and Kewal K. Singh (Santosh Offset) Treasurer.

After completing his graduation in Commerce from Delhi University in 1992, Sunil took over the reins of his

DPA elects leaders for 2016-17 11, 1957, joined his family’s printing business while he was still a student in school. After completing his BA, Gupta launched his own unit Press of India. He also served DPA as Joint-Secretary as well as Vice-President for several terms.

Kewal Krishan Singhal, born at Gwalior, MP, graduated in Commerce from Delhi University. He set up Santosh Offset in 1986. His press specializes in printing of quality mono and corrugated cartons. Singhal has served DPA as Joint Secretary for two terms and VP for two terms earlier.

family printing business. He has also served the Association as Vice-President (2009-2010), Treasurer (2011-2014) and General Secretary (2014-2016).

Rajiv Gupta, born in Delhi on May



Chennai’s Rajam Digital has recently installed the Heidelberg Speedmaster SX 52 Anicolor

press, the first in Tamil Nadu. The Print shop which was established in 2008 as a digital print shop specializing in photo albums, later expanded its footprint into commercial printing in 2011. The firm continues to retain a market-dominant position in the digital photo album space in Chennai and the rest of Tamil Nadu. The print shop also caters to overseas customers.

The latest addition of the Speedmaster SX 52 Anicolor complements an existing suite of digital and offset presses and finishing equipment, making Rajam Digital the unique, one-stop solution in Chennai to cater to diverse printing needs.

“Heidelberg Speedmaster SX 52 Anicolor is certainly an impressive addition to our portfolio. We see a shift in business from digital printing to Anicolor printing. Many of our customers prefer the Anicolor, because of swift delivery, premium quality and flexible pricing,” beams Viswakumar, a self-taught entrepreneur and passionate printer.

The Speedmaster SX 52 is a hybrid press, combining the cutting-edge performance innovation of the XL class with the tried-and-tested Speedmaster SM 52 platform. The Anicolor press is adept at handling short-run print jobs, starting from as low as 100 sheets onwards.

This is possible, because the short, zone less Anicolor inking unit consists of fewer rollers with a dampening system that facilitates quick and even inking. No tedious inking adjustments are required with the Anicolor, as it is extremely easy to operate. This implies a reduction in startup waste to just less than five sheets, and shortening make-ready times to less than six minutes per job. Anicolor offers users the flexibility to deliver first-rate quality at significantly lower costs per

Tamil Nadu’s first Heidelberg Speedmaster SX 52 Anicolor Press installed at Rajam Digital, Chennai

sheet for higher runs, which makes the technology competitive vs. digital print products.

Ganesh Kumar, Senior Sales Manager, Heidelberg, further extols the merits, “The Anicolor inking unit produces ghost-free printing, by ensuring consistent quality through the entire production run. In combination with Heidelberg’s Prinect color management, Anicolor delivers outstanding results.”

Alongside the Speedmaster SX 52 Anicolor, the print firm has also invested in a Heidelberg Suprasetter A7 5CTP, complementing an existing suite of digital and offset presses and finishing equipment’s. With the recent additions, Rajam Digital gains the distinction of being the unique, one-stop solution in Chennai to cater to diverse printing needs.

“On average, we run about 25 to 30 jobs in a 10-hour shift. That’s a pretty good number. The Anicolor lowers costs for short-runs, and generates premium quality output at digital speeds. Our Suprasetter CtP further supports the performance of Anicolor with the

seamless plate output. Gradually, we pushed up productivity. Now, we utilize the SX- 52 to its maximum capability,” states Viswakumar, who is also the Vice President of the MPLA or the Madras Printers’ & Lithographers’ Association.

Ganesh Kumar adds, “The definite advantage over conventional offset printing can be fully realized while using a Speedmaster SX 52 Anicolor for four-color, standard commercial jobs in runs ranging from 100 to 500 sheets.

Viswakumar comments on his other acquisition, “Our Suprasetter CtP A75 reinforces the performance of Anicolor with seamless plate output. The A75 is equipped with highly accurate internal punching systems to provide maximum register accuracy, in turn reducing press make-ready times.”

The versatile A75 handle conventional, process less and chemical-free thermal plates, with a productivity of 17 to 22 plates per hour. Production reliability is ensured through the Intelligent Diode System (IDS), which ensures that operation can continue, even if a diode fails.

Vishwa Kumar (third from right), of Rajam Digital with the Heidelberg team.


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Arasan Ganesan Polytechnic College, Sivakasi, functioning since 1996 with Government

aid under the World Bank scheme, has recently installed Ricoh Digital Printing Machine Color Pro C5100S & B/W Pro 8100S worth `40 lakh under a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU)signed between the two parties.

This latest technology provides the student community with a golden opportunity of keeping pace with the latest technological advancement. The institute has extended these benefits to nearby printing fraternity, educational institutions and schools also. Color and Black & White prints can be obtained with high quality Print resolution (1200 x 4800 dpi).

Inauguration of Ricoh Digital Printing Laboratory was on last December by the Chief Guest N.V. Muralitharan, Managing Director, Orient Color Art Printers, Sivakasi and other guests from various institutions and colleges.

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