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Canon India strengthens in WB
Canon India strengthens its foothold in West Bengal
Installs flagship imagePRESS C8000VP at Kolkata based Mantra Designers and Printers.
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Mantra Designers & Printers has installed the first Canon imagePRESS C8000VP in West Bengal. Acclaimed for its unique value proposition, this flagship machine from Canon stable was inaugurated at Mantra’s facility in the distinguished presence of Mr. Puneet Datta, Senior Director of Professional Printing Products (PPP), Canon India and Mr. Amit Roy Proprietor at Mantra Designers and Printers.
Enticing the attention of the professional printing industry, the imagePRESS C8000VP has yielded over 100+ installations across India. The printer is built to efficiently cater to the latest production demands and easily handle quality jobs on a wide range of substrates, enabling unprecedented image production quality and capability to print on a host of media. Its unique value proposition allows imagePRESS C8000VP to cater to the specific requirements of multiple commercial print and packaging applications.
Expressing his views on the growing market demand for the series, Mr. Puneet Datta, Senior Director, Professional Printing Products (PPP), Canon India said, “At Canon, we thrive to delight our customers spread across geographies with latest technology and innovation in the professional printing space. Kolkata is a vital market for Canon, and we have installed multiple machines in this market in the past few months. We are excited to reinforce our footprint in West Bengal with the installation of imagePRESS C8000 VP in Kolkata. Featuring proven technologies from the successful imagePRESS product line-up, the imagePRESS C8000VP maintains high productivity and delivers vibrant output by smoothly integrating into existing workflows. This installation is a shining example of the success of our imagePRESS series and a symbol of Canon’s strong commitment to the Indian market. We are positive that the installation will prove to be an important milestone in the growth journey of Mantra Designers &Printers and will further help them to gain strong acceptance among customers.”
Mantra Designers and Printers is a one-of-a-kind newage printing and designing space located in Sealdah, Kolkata, Asia’s largest printing, paper and publishing district. Fiercely committed to the mission of providing customers and businesses the access to exceptional quality digital printing, Mantra aims to elevate the printing experience for everyone. Positioned at the crossroad of Baithakkhana Road and Surya Sen Street, it is a shop easily accessed by trains, buses, metro and all other forms of transportation.
Speaking at the installation of the machine, Mr. Amit
Key Notes :
> Optimum productivity across extensive media range. > Impressive print
quality & consistency. > Flexible media versatility.
Roy, Director, Mantra Printers said, “Over time, we have witnessed a growing demand for colour consistency across a wide variety of media, but there wasn’t any solution which catered to this specific requirement. On the basis of our extensive industry research & personal technical evaluation, it became evident that imagePRESS C8000VP is number one, especially in terms of media versatility, duty cycle, quality and consistency of prints. Canon has always been wellknown within the industry for its range of technologically supreme and reliable products-all of which gave us the confidence to install it. We are extremely delighted to be the first printing house in Eastern India to partner with Canon on this unique industry opportunity. We are looking to usher in a new age of digital printing in the region. The imagePRESS C8000VP is engineered for demanding production environments and we are positive that it will enable us to drive more revenue opportunities by delivering outstanding print quality on a wide range of media.”
Canon imagePRESS C8000VP has been perceived as a distinguished machine in the digital press segment, meeting the evolving needs of the professional printing space. With an aim to deliver printing excellence, the printer is especially designed to meet higher production volumes for both commercial and in-house print service providers without compromising on quality. The printer features an extensive range of Canon’s recently developed innovative consistently vivid (CV) toner which improves transfer efficiency for enhanced colour consistency and accuracy across a wide variety of media. The printer comes with 2400 x 2400 dpi resolution enabling even higher precision in the printing of text and images.
Key Features of imagePRESS C8000VP: Equipped with a speed of 80ppm, the machine offers an optimum productivity across an extensive media range up to 350gsm. With a Dual Fixing unit with enhanced cooling capability, the machine delivers better mixed media handling, while an external heat belt ensures stable fixing performance at high speed.
iPR C8000VP is equipped with innovative technologies, which will ensure state-ofthe-art quality from first to last print without compromising on productivity. The machine uses Canon’s newly developed innovative consistently vivid (CV) toner which improves transfer efficiency for enhanced colour consistency and accuracy across a wide variety of media. The printer comes with 2400 x 2400 dpi resolution enabling even higher precision in the printing of text and images. An in-line spectroscopic sensor and new Multi-Density Adjustment Technology (Multi D.A.T) will also deliver real time colour calibration to ensure consistent quality day after day – with minimal operator intervention.
The imagePRESS C8000VP supports extensive range of media including texture Papers and have capabilities that enable the creation of extensive and innovative applications. The machine has various media handling technologies like Suction Feeding, Straight Paper Path & Best in Class FrontBack Registration technology which helps to produce better finished products.
Kodak has announced the integration between KODAK PRINERGY Workflow 8.4 and Canon’s PRISMAsync Print Server starting with v7.2. This new integration provides PRINERGY users a quick, seamless, and efficient method to set up, control, and monitor print jobs. production workflow for controlling all their print processes. This connectivity means that Canon production presses can now be efficiently controlled using our industry
With the new connectivity, PRINERGY Setup can receive device properties from the PRISMAsync Print Server and import the Canon digital press’s media and substrate library. PRINERGY Job Ticket Editor for the PRISMAsync Print Server enables users to define print parameters as needed and save them for later use. Furthermore, PRINERGY Track records all print jobs on the PRISMAsync Print Server, and for queued jobs that were sent from PRINERGY, most settings can be changed.
“Kodak’s goal is to provide customers access to the PRINERGY automated leading PRINERGY Workflow solution,” commented Todd Bigger, President Kodak Software Division and Vice President, Eastman Kodak Company.
Idea Catalysts reaffirms confidence in Konica Minolta technology
The Mohali based hybrid printer repeats Konica Minolta upgrade to explore new vistas.
Mohali, Punjab based Idea Catalysts has a rich, over two decades’ experience in the Printing field. The first generation company was started by a young, fresh out of college Mr. Jasmeet Dhamija, pursuing his dream career, matching his tech-savvy disposition.
“In fact Konica Minolta AccurioPress C3070 is a perfect partner for a quality conscious Offset printer who wishes to add Digital capabilities to win that edge and have a healthy mix of the two technologies.” Jasmeet Dhamija, Director, Idea Catalysts.
It started in the year 1999 with a single colour Offset machine. Jasmeet recalls the time when printing used to be a rather complex process with a lot of time and efforts going into it. “Back then, Prepress was pretty challenging with jobs requiring manual planning and lot of efforts going just into colour separation,” he remembers.
Jasmeet soon found a huge market and promising opportunity in digitization of Prepress. This was the beginning of one of the leading Prepress processing houses of Chandigarh. Starting with a Dianippon Screen drum-scanner-based outputting device, not before long, Idea Catalysts had installed their Scitex Imagesetter to cater to the increased demand. The Processing House proved as Idea Catalysts’ mainstay in addition to their Printing Press.
The business was facing immense competition till 2005 with a lot many processing houses coming up in the region, putting pressure on margins and business. “There were more than 10 processing houses in Chandigarh catering to the printers in the tricity (of Mohali, Panchkula and Chandigarh) in addition to the nearby areas. The margins were getting thinner and thinner, therefore, we took a conscious decision to exit from it and focus back on the printing business,” says Jasmeet. With more time and money getting invested into the Digital Printing business, there came their first Digital Printing machine – a Xerox in the year 2007. It was a used machine and there has been no looking back from Digital Printing ever since. Jasmeet, rather calls it Hybrid Printing for being an Offset Printer and having ability to incorporate Digital Printing as well. “There is no way an Offset Printer can survive without the integration of Digital Printing into their setup to cater to the demands of existing and future customers,” declares Jasmeet.
“In 2007, I presume we were the first to get into the Hybrid Printing bandwagon and we even today carry the benefits of the decision taken then which not only has helped us to retain our business but also to increase it over the years,” continues Jasmeet. In 2009, with the increased burden of work piling up, they decided to upgrade to a brand new Konica Minolta. The Konica Minolta machine stood with them in good stead till December last year when they once again decided to upgrade – this time to a new Konica Minolta AccurioPress C3070.
The AccurioPress C3070 digital press is a versatile machine with high productivity up to 70 ppm, 2-sided
Key Notes :
> From Printing to
Processing House to a Hybrid Printer. > The latest addition is a new Konica Minolta AccurioPress C3070 Digital Press. > Konica Minolta proves a perfect partner for digital value addition for their offset quality.
banner printing (accepts paper sizes up to 13” x 19.2” and weights up to 350 gsm, banner tray holds 1000 banner sheets of up to 30” and simplex banner printing up to 51”), excellent image quality (1200 x 1200 DPI resolution with 8-bit processing for smoother, more realistic images), real-time automated quality adjustments and much more. “In fact it is a perfect partner for a quality conscious Offset printer who wishes to add Digital capabilities to win that edge and have a healthy mix of the two technologies,” recommends Jasmeet.
Konica has always been a perfect partner with Idea Catalyst Inc. considering their very appreciable after sale services and more importantly the machines being rugged enough to carry on in the typical Indian working conditions.
Jasmeet’s vision on having a Digital set up within the Offset is rather interesting as he does not look into a long-run high-speed production machine per se for his Digital runs. “I would rather do a Hybrid product with the main body on Offset and Variable on the Digital which gives us more returns per page than if I do a few thousand runs all on Digital,” he reasons. Volumes are not what he always looks for but, value addition
to the Offset printed products is what he calls his forte is. Moreover, this is what he can get higher margins on too. “We provide add-ons to the customer by providing velvet lamination, Spot UV printing, Variable Printing etc. which in fact give me a better return than doing higher volumes,” he explains.
Idea Catalysts have been known for their designing enabled by a strong design team. Their products stand part for their design and quality of printing. Besides, their expertise in Variable Data Printing – not only in numeric terms but also variable picture printing and special capabilities like providing 100 different numbers with counterfoils on a single sheet of paper – not only put them apart in a competitive field but also help them in getting a price of choice for their products.
In fact Jasmeet is pretty much happy with the production that the Konica Minolta machine gives him. His target is about 5-10 thousand sheets a day. Keeping himself away from the price-cutting rat race among many digital printers of this day, he rather prefers to keep his margins comfortable. Most of the jobs he does for his customers are a combination of Digital and Offset. “I find this combination a lethal one; considering the present market scenario of immense competition and cut throat rates prevalent in the market,” believes Jasmeet. “Scratch coupons are a case to point the advantage Idea Catalysts gives to its scratch coupon customers who get it not only on-time but in perfect condition every time,” he confirms.
According to Jasmeet, the reason for the upgradation of the recent machine was to chiefly get an upgrade of the software that Konica provides with the new machines. “Had it not been for the new software, I could never have come to know that 400 pages of a B&W print taken out by my operator were actually being routed through the colour route. This meant we were to pay for the fasma of colour pages price where as we were charging for the B&W,” he contends.
Such small details are what matter for a business owner and all in all, they help in improving the balance sheet. Jasmeet has configured his system to send him a report of the previous day’s outputs from the machine at 8 in the morning. This helps him to actually see the production (and idle time) and plan his day. “It’s one day at a time,” Jasmeet concludes, summing up his success.
