PRESSIdeas September 2017 issue by Jacob George

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WAN-IFRA India 2017........................................14 Content-X at The Printers Mysore................16 Martyn on Indian Digital Market..................24 Siemens and HP partner..................................30

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Contents FROM THE EDITORS’ DESK.............................................................................................................................................................................................................6 Brand new Heidelberg Speedmaster SX-74-4, Polar 115PF for Florid Print & Pack .................................................................................................8 Printo acquires The Print Bazaar ............................................................................................................................................................................................. 10 Amritsar to host inaugural road show of PAMEX 2017.................................................................................................................................................... 10 Komori partners with Heinrich Baumann for cutting systems..................................................................................................................................... 12 Print4All 2018................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 12 Think Print: IFRA World Publishing Expo with an extensive offer for print products........................................................................................... 13 Over 425 converge at WAN-IFRA India 2017....................................................................................................................................................................... 14 Kapoor Imaging presents Violet Plates to the newspaper industry........................................................................................................................... 15 Successful go-live of Content-X at The Printers Mysore ................................................................................................................................................. 16 WAN-IFRA best news website award for The Hindu ........................................................................................................................................................ 17 FIG turns to QIPC automation .................................................................................................................................................................................................. 17 Manroland India focuses Web Presses, Print Services and Maintalligence.............................................................................................................. 18 ABB: serving Indian newspaper industry since 2000....................................................................................................................................................... 19 Muller Martini (India) highlights entire range of Mailroom System .......................................................................................................................... 19 OneVision Software’s new Raster HD for higher level of colour tones...................................................................................................................... 20 Aarushi highlights Web Blankets range at WAN-IFRA...................................................................................................................................................... 20 QIPC-EAE India: Upgrade to add 5 to 10 years to your presses ................................................................................................................................... 21 APL Machinery showcases UV and LED UV Curing Systems.......................................................................................................................................... 21 Cadgraf Digital integrates various solutions in one single system............................................................................................................................. 22 New low height Manugraph Ecoline can be operated from floor level.................................................................................................................... 22 ‘Glimpses from WAN-IFRA India 2017.................................................................................................................................................................................... 23 India to see Inkjet volumes explode in 5 yrs, says Martyn Train................................................................................................................................... 24 HP Digital Printing Technology at PRINT 17........................................................................................................................................................................ 28 Innovative Ink from Xerox to change economics of Commercial Inkjet printing.................................................................................................. 29 Siemens and HP partner to advance 3D printing ............................................................................................................................................................. 30 Canon India sells all Print Expo products on display........................................................................................................................................................ 31 Konica Minolta at Print Expo 2017.......................................................................................................................................................................................... 32 Monotech Systems installed JETSCI VSRI in Philippines................................................................................................................................................. 33 Konica Minolta showcases state of the art production printing solutions ............................................................................................................. 33 ContiTech at LabelExpo: Comprehensive print solutions for labels and packaging............................................................................................ 34 VINSAK confirms triple investment @ Label Expo Europe 2017................................................................................................................................... 35 Esko takes Packaging Simplified to a new level ................................................................................................................................................................ 36 BOBST M1 and M5X inline flexo presses now offer even more.................................................................................................................................... 38 New MicroTip enhancement on display at Labelexpo Europe 2017 (stand 7B20)................................................................................................ 39 HP at Labelexpo 2017: New opportunities to grow and innovate ............................................................................................................................. 40 Global Graphics extends relationship with HP Indigo..................................................................................................................................................... 42 A focus on Fixed Colour Palette printing: The future of flexography......................................................................................................................... 43 Pulse Roll Label products verified by RIT for overprint varnishes................................................................................................................................ 44 IEEC brings latest corona treater to Labelexpo(stand 7A22)......................................................................................................................................... 44 Multitec launches S2 label press (stand 5C10)................................................................................................................................................................... 44 Edale launches the EFX Print Bar at Label Expo................................................................................................................................................................. 45 New sustainable materials from Avery Dennison............................................................................................................................................................. 45 Cosmo Films showcases speciality PSA labeling films (stand 3C70).......................................................................................................................... 46 United Specialty Inks presents label inks (stand3E62)..................................................................................................................................................... 46 Diehard Dies showcases flexible dies (stand7A46)........................................................................................................................................................... 47 Garware Polyester showcases range of PET films (stand 3E70).................................................................................................................................... 47 SMI Coated Products launches SMI Clarity (stand11A27)............................................................................................................................................... 47 Monotech Systems information booth at Label Expo (stand 9A42)........................................................................................................................... 47 Globus International Coaters presents release liners (stand4 A38)............................................................................................................................ 47 TCPL installs KBA special press ................................................................................................................................................................................................ 48 EPS at Pack Expo 2017................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 49 Xaar is strengthening business in India................................................................................................................................................................................ 50 7th Manipal Media Congress 2017 ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 51 TCPL Packaging installs India’s 100th Kongsberg table.................................................................................................................................................. 52 PrintFair 2018 comes back to Hyderabad............................................................................................................................................................................. 53 Chhabra family contributes 7 lakh towards Viren Chhabra Print Leadership Award............................................................................................ 53 Monotech Systems ties-up with AGFA Graphics................................................................................................................................................................ 54 Monotech Systems launches Pixeljet POWERPRO at Media Expo............................................................................................................................... 54 Azure Press transforms short run production with Kongsberg.................................................................................................................................... 55 ColorJet to launch VULCAN at Media Expo ......................................................................................................................................................................... 56

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FROM THE EDITORS’ DESK Dear Readers, Running a successful stationery business in Punjab, the Mittals were outsourcing printing jobs as a value-added service to customers. On perceiving strong demand, they decided to leverage the market potential and expand into printing business. The story is about their recently investing in a brand new Heidelberg Speedmaster SX-74 four-colour press and Polar 115PF cutter, which are a part of their business strategy to explore new revenue opportunities. Another key installation is by TCPL - now a total of six Rapida 106 high-performance presses are in operation at the company’s at Haridwar, Silvassa and Guwahati. A seventh is expected to arrive shortly. TCPL Packaging has also installed the Indian carton industry’s 100th Kongsberg – an Esko Kongsberg X20 sample making table. 2nd machine goes to Silvassa as three packaging production plants there offer a considerable amount of new packaging development and innovation. Another Kongsberg milestone is, Innovative Bahadurgarh commercial print, packaging and sign & display converting specialist Azure Press, investing in India’s first Esko Kongsberg X24 digital cutting table with MultiCupHP to transform its shortrun production. In the newspaper segment, Indian media company, The Printers Mysore opted for a complete publishing production system by ppi Media to make the production workflow for the daily newspapers Deccan Herald and Prajavani and other publications more efficient and future-oriented. Label Expo Europe in Brussels concluded on a high note with scores of Indian players too showcasing at the global platform. In Chennai WAN-IFRA India Conference addressed the latest issues and showcased latest technologies in the newspaper world. Both shows have come under our event review section. We have exclusive stories based on one to one talk with exhibitors. India to see Inkjet volumes explode in 5 yrs, says Martyn Train. In an exclusive interview to PRESSIdeas, Martyn Train, GM, Graphic Communications, DMO, Xerox Corporation talks about Xerox’s Indian focus, Digital market, key offerings and more. Xaar’s CEO, Doug Edwards confirmed that Xaar is strengthening its business in India with its wide portfolio of inkjet printheads and new technology for a variety of print applications. Edwards also outlined the importance of the Indian market to the company’s global goal to reach annual sales of £220m by 2020. In another key industry development, Siemens and HP have partnered to advance 3D printing. Under the new association HP’s Multi Jet Fusion 3D printing technology is integrated with Siemens’ flagship NX software for product development and manufacturing. Find all this along with our regular sections and coverage in this September issue of PRESSIdeas.

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Brand new Heidelberg Speedmaster SX-74-4, Polar 115PF for Florid Print & Pack The recent investment in the Speedmaster SX-74 four-colour press and a Polar 115PF cutter are part of their business strategy to explore new revenue opportunities. Managing Directors - Hitesh Mittal and Girish Mittal spearhead operations at Florid Print & Pack. Running a successful stationery business in Punjab, the Mittals were outsourcing printing jobs as a value-added service to customers. On perceiving strong demand, they decided to leverage the market potential and expand into printing business. They have recently invested in a brand new Heidelberg Speedmaster SX-74 four-colour press and Polar 115PF cutter, which are a part of their business strategy to explore new revenue opportunities. “Our confidence in this opportunity is reflected by our recent acquisition of a brand new Heidelberg SX-74 and Polar 115PF. We expect to build on the strong connection we have already established with our customers,” beams Hitesh Mittal. The Heidelberg Speedmaster SX-74 is winning combination of the cutting-edge technology of the Speedmaster XL class with the tried-and-tested platform of the SM series. The hybrid press is designed for ergonomic operation, shorter makeready and throughput times, with production speeds of up to 15,000 sheets per hour.

Our recent investment in Heidelberg’s SX-74 and Polar 115PF cutter has positioned us to tap into a lucrative market segment. We look forward with excitement, as we embark on our new venture.” – Hitesh Mittal

“The SX-74 is a dream,” pipes in Girish Mittal, “the price/performance ratio is impressive. Currently, we are starting out with single-shift operations. We find the press extremely cost-efficient for short-run jobs and frequent job changes, even for a one-shift model like ours.” Engaged in commercial printing, publishing and

packaging, Florid Print & Pack specializes in visiting cards, Flyers, posters, diaries, calendars, brochures, letter heads, invitation cards, flex boards, envelopes, and magazines…to name a few. “The SX-74 provides amazing color stability and standardization to print output. The press is an ideal fit into our business,” comments Girish Mittal. “Heidelberg’s proprietary colorimetric control using the Prinect system ensures 100% color fidelity through print production. This reduces paper wastage, while promoting easy reproducibility,” says Sunil Kumar, Senior Sales Manager. Florid’s recent investment in a brand new Polar 115 PF cutter also plays an imperative role in its postpress production efficiency. A high-speed cutter that is best-suited for offset formats of 63 x 88 cm, the Polar 115 PF is the best-seller in its class of equipment. An OptiKnife knife changing system facilitates faster knife changes and shortest make-ready times, leading to high efficiency. The Polar positioning-system DPS with a mechanical positioning accuracy of 1/1000 mm renders the greatest cutting accuracy to the Polar 115 PF. The stability of the single-piece machine frame lengthens lifespan and makes the Polar 115 PF highly reliable for everyday use. “Our recent investment in Heidelberg’s SX-74 and Polar 115PF cutter has positioned us to tap into a lucrative market segment. We look forward with excitement, as we embark on our new venture. A big thanks to Heidelberg India for supporting our dreams and growth initiatives,” concludes Hitesh Mittal.

Key Notes : >

Ergonomic operation, shorter make-ready and throughput times.

> Production speeds of up to 15,000 sheets per hour. > Amazing color stability and standardization to print output.

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(From l to r) Girish Mittal and Hitesh Mittal with Sunil Kumar of Heidelberg India

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Printo acquires The Print Bazaar Looks to invest 10 crores in expansion. Printo, the organized high street retail giant in the digital printing space has acquired 100% of The Print Bazaar, a multi-service print shop in the NCR region, from the Alia Group. Commenting on the development, Printo CEO, Balu lyer says, “We believe consolidation gives us a competitive advantage and we can collectively grow faster. When I joined Printo, my ambition was to make this a national brand, which served customers across most metros. With the Print Bazaar acquisition we have not only fulfilled this goal, but also created a platform that will help us penetrate deeper into the north India market. I compliment Sanjeev and his team in building a customer-focused brand in a very tough market. I am delighted to work with the new team and warmly welcome them into the Printo family.” “The acquisition helps us achieve economy of scale and be part of a platform that serves customers at a pan India level. It will help us learn from each other’s experience and grow in larger geographies. Large corporates want a single supplier. National presence will help us cater to the needs of both SME’s and these large corporate,” shared Sanjeev

Malhotra, Founder & CEO, Alia Group. Print Bazaar marks the fourth exit by the group; the earlier being the one acquired by Future Group, an IT major and a large French International conglomerate. “This acquisition lays the foundation for India’s largest business services brand. Printo expects to invest upto 10 crores to grow its NCR and national footprint aggressively, over the next few years,” shared Manish Sharma, Co-Founder and Chairman, Printo. “In all emerging markets print and retail print is growing at double digits. This is a consumption led industry and with increasing consumerism, quick service print is booming. At Printo we believe the big growth lies in creating a platform that combines retail instant gratification with

omni-channel access for customers,” he further added. There has been a consolidation in the digital print space as the market gets more organized and professional, signaling growth in consumption led demand. Print Retail industry is growing at 20 % and is expected to be a $7Bn industry by the year 2020. Printo boasts a wide print network with a national presence comprising 30 stores and 3 regional hubs spread across 6 cities. Headquartered in Bangalore, Printo makes printing a simple and hassle-free process for both business customers and individuals. Printo’s customers can order via a mobile app or the website and pick up at a store the same day or have it delivered to their office / home.

Amritsar to host inaugural road show of PAMEX 2017

The promotional campaign for the prestigious Printing Industry show, PAMEX 2017 through road shows is all set to cover over 50 grassroot towns in Maharashtra, Gujarat, Telangana, Andhra, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Uttar Pradesh. At the regional level, promotional events are planned at Lucknow, Indore, Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad and Amritsar. PAMEX will also go international this year with events

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in Colombo and Dhaka. The first road show of PAMEX 2017 will be organized by AIFMP in Amritsar at Hotel HK Clark Inn on 17 Sept 2017 at 12:00 noon. Organized in association with Offset Printers Association-Ludhiana this Road Show is supported by several regional printing associations including Jalandhar Printers Association, Amritsar Offset Printers

Association, Offset Printers AssociationAmritsar, Pathankot Printer Association, The Association of Printers Regd.-Batala and Printing Press Association - Mukatsar. Mr. Shaikh Malik, Member of Rajyasabha will inaugurate this Road Show. Mr. Tushar Dhote, Chairman, PAMEX will enlighten the gathering with the updates and opportunities at PAMEX 2017.

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Komori partners with Heinrich Baumann for cutting systems Komori has entered into a strategic partnership with Heinrich Baumann Grafisches Centrum for cutting systems and has concluded an agreement covering sales in Japan. By this, the Apressia CTX series cutting system will be added to the Apressia brand of printing-related equipment offered by Komori. Komori has been selling and supplying the Apressia CT115/CT137 Programmable

Hydraulic Clamp Cutters. Adding the Apressia CTX series to the lineup will enable greater efficiency and labour saving in postpress processing. The collaboration of Komori, which is expanding its Apressia lineup, including cutters and die cutters, and Baumann Group,

which has automatic paper processing technologies, will provide very significant added value to postpress and enable centralized management from prepress to postpress by interfacing with KP-Connect Pro, the Komori Solution Cloud. Both companies will supply equipment and systems to the postpress market while strengthening collaboration. Komori will launch sales of Apressia CTX series cutting systems in Japan this autumn.

Print4All 2018 The new exhibition will take place at Fiera Milano from 29 May to 1 June 2018. The exhibition will cover the printing and converting solutions on different media for different marketing, productive, and communication requirement. In addition conferences, workshops, and initiatives will highlight the role and potential of the printing industry. The event will be an opportunity to get together and discuss about the latest trends of a market, integration of different printing areas and the requirements of increasingly demanding customers. Fiera Milano is the organiser and ACIMGA and ARGI represent Italian and international manufacturers of printing and converting machines; 4IT Group has been observing the markets of the Graphic and Communication Industry for over 10 years. Print4All’s training session platform will provide an overall view of the printing opportunities in different stages of the customer journey – pre-sales, in store, after-sales – showing views, experiences, and technologies.

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The 4-day event will be rich in events and will be an opportunity to find out the latest technologies and applications, and learn from the best. The “The Future of…” is a series of meetings to network with international experts and a tool to support the success of the “Company of the Future”. Attendees will have the opportunity to meet outstanding personalities of the industry, who will show them new perspectives and approaches, offering added value to all industry’s players. “The Future of” will also include institutional events, which will be a moment for debating and reflecting on the future challenges companies are about to face and for which they must be prepared. In particular, during Print4All, Paper and Graphics Federation (ACIMGA-ARGI, ASSOGRAFICI, ASSOCARTA) will present the results of about six months of research and mapping of the state of the art of the Industry 4.0 Practice about its three segments. Print4All

will showcase state-of-the-art technology, besides providing training sessions. At PrintMat, visitors will find products that combine new technologies, materials, and media that obtain new and enthusiastic outcomes and provide the “wow effect”. The Print4All project for schools will be an educational journey. The aim is to spread the printing culture, its history, and evolution, and to provide tools and content to rediscover the value of materials, such as paper. This project will involve students of the AIMSC (Italian Associations of Museums for paper and printing) and ENIPG (Italian Institute for Graphic Designers) circuits. Print4All is part of the The Innovation Alliance project, which will bring IPACKIMA, MEAT-TECH, PLAST, PRINT4ALL and INTRALOGISTICA ITALIA together at Fiera Milano from 29 May to 1 June 2018. Operators of different food and non-food sectors will find a unique and wide showcase of Italy’s and international technology excellence relative to different production worlds sharing a strong supply chain. A complete offering, which ranges from processing to packaging, from plastic and rubber machining to industrial and commercial printing, and from graphic customisation of packaging and labels, through to handling and storage of goods.

Think Print: IFRA World Publishing Expo with an extensive offer for print products From 10 to 12 October the IFRA World Publishing Expo, for the first time together with the new parallel DCX Digital Content Expo, is coming to Berlin. Besides innovative digital solutions for content and news, print production remains the most important mainstay of the event. The IFRA World Publishing Expo will show innovations for the complete print production chain: Industry leaders, such as ABB, Agfa, Ferag, DotLine, HP, Fuji, KBA, Kodak, Krause-Biagosch, manroland, Müller Martini, Papierfabrik Palm, Schuite & Schuite, Schur and UPM will be present as exhibitors. The combination with an international congress programme makes the exhibition the “place to be” for media companies and corporate publishers. In addition, the new spin-off event, DCX Digital Content Expo, is proving to be highly popular. This concurrently held exhibition focuses especially on the digital news business.

Print and Online – two sides of a medal “With about 180 exhibitors, the exhibition will again be significantly bigger than in the last years”, says Alexander Petsch, CEO of Publishing Exhibition, the organiser of the event. “Digitisation is a must for newspapers and news media. But high-quality print products remain popular among readers and enjoy their trust, which is why they are often more successful in advertising than is generally assumed,” says Thomas Jacob, COO of WAN-IFRA. “The necessary investments in the digital sector should not lead publishers and content providers to forget print products. The IFRA World Publishing Expo is THE worldwide market place for finding out what is going on right now in the printing industry.” Besides suppliers for the entire newspaper production process, paper producers and leading press manufacturers, retrofitting solutions will be shown also at the Expo.

The Print World conference Parallel to the exhibition, industry experts will report at the Print World conference about latest trends, such as Print 4.0, a new level of automation in data handling, press and mailroom operation as well as different strategies for attracting new readers – with quality, by addressing target groups, or focusing on local news.

Over 425 converge at WAN-IFRA India 2017 ‘The opportunities for us are enormous if we can work together,’ WAN-IFRA India 2017 delegates told

WAN-IFRA India 2017 opened in Chennai with an urgent call for news publishers to work together and support each other in the face of serious challenges to press freedom and quality journalism. “With press freedom and financial support concerns around the world putting unprecedented strains on journalism, this conference, which gathers the best of India and Asia, is more important than ever for discussing these vital issues,” said David Callaway, CEO of The Street and President of World Editors Forum, in his keynote presentation. “Specific concerns about press freedom here in India, and growing oppression in places like China, Turkey, and even the U.S., make standing up and shouting about the importance of what we do a key imperative,” he added.

“Specific concerns about press freedom here in India, and growing oppression in places like China, Turkey, and even the U.S., make standing up and shouting about the importance of what we do a key imperative.” David Callaway, President, World Editors Forum

Key Notes : >

The 25th annual Silver jubilee conference in Chennai.

> World Editors Forum – South Asia Summit launched. > The event includes an expo with more than 35 suppliers from both India and abroad.

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The conference is co-sponsored by The Indian Newspaper Society. New this year is a parallel World Editors Forum – South Asia Summit, which addresses issues such as journalism in the digital age, trust of news and engaging with audiences. “Despite the challenges, more people worldwide need and are consuming news than ever,” Callaway said. “The opportunities for us are enormous if we

can work together to understand and support each other.” The conference, the largest for news publishers in South Asia, has brought together more than 425 delegates from India, South Asia and around the world. The event includes an expo with more than 35 suppliers from both India and abroad displaying their products and services for the newspaper printing and publishing industry. The event also features the World Printers Forum Conference, where delegates are discussing printing efficiency, innovation, business models and more. One of the highlights of the program is a panel discussion on “the future of media business and of print” featuring the CEOs of India’s leading media houses. The speakers and panelists include: • Mukund Padmanabhan, Editor, The Hindu, talking about attracting paying readers • Raj Chengappa, Group Editorial Director, The India Today Group, discussing reimagining India’s no. 1 newspaper • Sitaram Shankar, Managing Editor, Network 18, examining the exercise of presenting news to new age readers

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Kapoor Imaging presents Violet Plates to the newspaper industry During recent WAN-IFRA, Kapoor Imaging focused on their new Violet plate which we the company had launched recently. “From next year we will be manufacturing this plate in our Chennai facility,” informs S.Giridharan, CEO, Kapoor Imaging. The company has already done some trial runs with a few top newspapers and the results are encouraging. “We will be the second manufacturer of Violet Plates in the country after Technova,” says Giridharan.

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Arun Ram, Editor, The Times of India, Chennai, sharing perspectives of the quality of journalism and how to address this issue Knud Kraft, Head of Production, Axel Springer, Germany, presenting a case study of adopting innovative methods to keep the printed newspaper attractive. P P Prakash, Vice President – Materials, Malayala Manorama, speaking about managing newsprint costs and logistics.

The conference can be followed on Facebook at www.facebook.com/ wanifraindiaconference and on Twitter with hashtag #wii2017. The winners of the second edition of South Asian Digital Media Awards also get presented at the same venue.

Another area they are focusing is to re-launch Negative PS Plates. “Presently all newspaper publishers are keen to cut down their production costs. Our PS Plates will work in CtCPs. We are going to launch a high speed UV Setter which will process sixty plates in one go for newspapers and over 100,000 runs in Negative Plates for high-run jobs. The main feature of the Negative Plates is that though the exposure is negative, processing will be a positive developer with a dilution of 1:9 which means the pH is also not very hazardous to the environment. The high run length will reduce the cost of production without any compromise on the quality of printing,” Giridharan further says explaining the key features. Kapoor Imaging also presented their recently launched Press Room Chemicals in collaboration with RBB Chemicals of USA. “We have made some trial runs with some newspaper publishers on their high speed machines. We have chemicals for spray

damping and integrated chemicals which will work with spray, brush and UV. If any customer uses all three processes, he will need one chemical only. Apart from this, we have high speed auto wash and regular wash chemicals. All these are manufactured in our Chennai facility,” continues Giridharan. The industry, according to Giridharan, is growing at a steady pace and will continue to be promising for next five to ten years. “Digital cannot take over conventional printed newspaper in India,” he says. However, he believes that in the future the industry has to innovate and find creative ways to present news and advertisements. Welcoming the GST, he says, “It has helped us to seamlessly move goods across the nation under the “One Nation One Tax” concept. It is very simple and straight forward to implement. We have already initiated the “Make in India” concept in our manufacturing facility in Chennai.” Last year was not a growth year for Kapoor Imaging. It bore the demonetization effect. “Our growth did not fall either. We are sure this year we will grow. We are participating in IFRA after a long gap of over eight years. We are not happy with the reduction in the number of days for the exhibitors. This year with the launch of many new products we wanted to participate. Three days is the ideal show period. Only then customers will have sufficient time to come and discuss with us,” he concludes.

WAN-IFRA is the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers. Its mission is to protect the rights of journalists across the world to operate free media, and provide its members with professional services to help their business prosper in a digital world and perform their crucial role in open societies. With formal representative status at the United Nations, UNESCO and the Council of Europe, it derives its authority from its global network of leading news publishing companies and technology entrepreneurs, and its legitimacy from its 80 national association members representing 18,000 publications in 120 countries.

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Successful go-live of Content-X at The Printers Mysore Indian newspaper publisher The Printers Mysore creates its daily newspapers entirely using the editorial system Content-X and other software solutions by ppi Media. The Indian media company opted for a complete publishing production system by ppi Media to make the production workflow for the daily newspapers Deccan Herald and Prajavani and other publications more efficient and future-oriented. At the end of June, the first stage of the project started with the production of the papers’ inserts. After a gradual transition, the dailies themselves are now also produced entirely with Content-X, the successful editorial system developed by ppi Media and Digital Collections. In addition to Content-X, The Printers Mysore also use a range of other ppi Media products, including the planning suite PlanPag, the ad production system AdMan and the e-paper solution CX epaper.

“It is clearly noticeable that our day-to-day work has become much more efficient and we are immensely grateful for the extremely knowledgeable support from the staff at ppi Media and Digital Collections here on site.” - Tilak Kumar, The Printers Mysore

Key Notes : >

A complete publishing production system by ppi Media.

> To make the production workflow for Deccan Herald, Prajavani and other publications more efficient and futureoriented. > Also uses PlanPag planning suite, AdMan ad production system and the e-paper solution CX epaper.

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The fact that Content-X can process different font systems is paying off for The Printers Mysore in the Indian state of Karnataka. Both the daily Prajavani, which is produced in the regional language Kannada, and the English language daily newspaper Deccan Herald are produced with the editorial solution Content-X now. The transition to the new editorial workflow only took a few months, the go-live of the dailies was accompanied closely by ppi Media and Digital Collections staff on site. Content-X allows the editors of The Printers Mysore Ltd. not only to create print products more efficiently and in a structured way, the introduction of Content-X also forms a productive basis for the company’s future digital strategy. The system is being used by numerous other media companies in Europe, Asia and the US, and is based on the internationally successful DAM system DC-X by Digital Collections, which enables journalists to work extremely flexibly thanks to its browser-based Story Editor and its line-byline preview. The daily Prajavani is printed at seven different locations and is published in 32 regional editions across Karnataka. The daily Deccan Herald is the biggest English-language Indian newspaper of the state and one of India’s top ten English language newspapers. The Printers Mysore also produce two magazines in Kannada with Content-X. “We are happy about the smooth implementation of the solutions into our production process”, says

Tilak Kumar, Joint Managing Director at The Printers Mysore. “It is clearly noticeable that our day-to-day work has become much more efficient and we are immensely grateful for the extremely knowledgeable support from the staff at ppi Media and Digital Collections here on site. Thanks to the excellent cooperation, we could implement the solutions swiftly in just six months. “ The Printers Mysore is a bilingual newspaper and magazine publishing company that is headquartered in Bangalore. The Printers Mysore was founded by K N Guruswamy in 1948. It publishes the Deccan Herald and Prajavani newspapers and Sudha and Mayura magazines. It has printing and distribution centres in Bengaluru, Hubli, Davangere, Hospet, Mysore, Mangalore and Gulbarga. The group has a combined monthly print readership of nearly 4 million. The daily print readership of Deccan Herald and Prajavani is 3,255,000 (IRS 2014). The group employs 1050 staff, which includes 400 journalists with bureaus across Karnataka and India. ppi Media GmbH is an international workflow specialist for newspaper and magazine publishers, as well as printers, corporate publishers and groups, and SMEs. It develops highly efficient software solutions and one of the leading players in the field of automated newspaper production. 80% of all daily newspapers on the German market are produced using ppi Media products and there is notable presence in the markets of Asia, Europe, Africa and the USA. A subsidiary of the Eversfrank Group, ppi Media has its head office in Hamburg and branches in Kiel and Chicago.

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WAN-IFRA best news website award for The Hindu The Hindu Group wins two golds and a silver at the South Asian Digital Media Awards at WAN-IFRA India 2017 Conference in Chennai. The Hindu Group has been awarded two golds and a silver at the South Asian Digital Media Awards at the WAN-IFRA India 2017 conference in Chennai. The Hindu’s site winning Gold (for the best news website) is India’s oldest newspaper website. Designed by Itu Chaudhuri Design, the website’s navigation and information architecture is designed to help readers easily and intuitively access content. Other attractions include its being fully responsive and adapting seamlessly to different devices and screen sizes.

The gold award in the Best Innovation to Engage Youth Audiences category went to Youngworldclub.com, The Hindu Group’s learning portal for children. This year, the winners of South Asian Digital Media Awards were chosen from nine categories — best news website, best in lifestyle, sports or entertainment website, best digital advertising campaign, best use of online video, best data visualisation, best news mobile service, best lifestyle, sports or entertainment mobile services, best innovation new product, best in social media engagement, and best innovation to engage youth audiences. The awards, presented by WAN-IFRA and Google, recognise publishers who have adopted digital media and mobile strategies as part of their total product offering to meet the major changes in how people consume news today. WAN-IFRA’s Digital Media

Awards are presented in every region across the world and the winners from each region subsequently compete for the World Digital Media Awards. www.sportstarlive.com, the sports website from The Hindu Group, won the silver award in the Best in Lifestyle, Sports or Entertainment Website category. WAN-IFRA, based in Paris, France, and Darmstadt, Germany, with subsidiaries in Singapore and India, is a global organisation of the world’s newspapers and news publishers. It represents more than 18,000 publications, 15,000 online sites and over 3,000 companies in more than 120 countries.

FIG turns to QIPC automation Places order for an automatic colour register system to answer frequent production changeovers. Portuguese printing concern FIG has placed an order for an automatic colour register system with the Dutch specialist in optical measurement and control systems for the printing industry, Q.I. Press Controls (QIPC). The system will be installed on a 2011 Goss Community press which has recently been acquired by FIG.

printing press,” states Harold Drinhuyzen. “Because of the intense usage, our system has a crucial role to play in the production process on this Goss Community.” Jorge Dinis, FIG’s financial director, reiterates this: “We are expecting savings in waste, ink and personnel. At the same time, thanks to QIPC’s system, we’re anticipating major improvements in the quality of the endproduct.”

Snap decision The printing plant in Coimbra, halfway between Lisbon and Porto, has been looking at possible ways of expanding and improving its production processes for some time. Even before acquiring a new press, FIG decided to have one fitted with QIPC automation systems. “Our Portuguese agent, Duarte Alves de Sousa, managing director and owner of Tecnimprensa, discussed the matter with FIG even before there was talk of a new press,” explains Harold Drinhuyzen, sales executive at QIPC. “At that stage it was already clear that the best technical solution

for their specific application was ours.”

Production changeovers Production at FIG is subject to frequent change rounds, partly because the plant is responsible for printing several regional newspapers for all the country; mostly weekly, biweekly, monthly and, and also four daily: Diário de Coimbra, Diário de Aveiro, Diário de Leiria e Diário de Viseu. “That meant that efficiency in the startup process was a key issue for the new

In total, FIG has ordered eight mRC-3D cameras for automating the colour register. The cameras are fitted with optional Automatic Ink Mist Shields (AIMS) for automatic cleaning of the lenses. The systems will be installed once the press has arrived in Portugal. “We’re absolutely convinced this is the best register control system for rotary offset printing presses,” Jorge Dinis concludes contentedly.

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Manroland India focuses Web Presses, Print Services and Maintalligence PRESSIdeas spoke with Sudeep Bhattacharjee, MD, Manroland India during the recent WAN-IFRA India Conference in Chennai. Manroland India focused on three key areas during the WAN-IFRA India in Chennai – Web Presses, Print Services and Maintalligence. “We are looking at three areas,” says Sudeep who explains, “the first is Web Presses – the Cromoman 4 x1 newspaper press which is already running in Times of India and Namaste Telengana. This is a press made for the Indian market. It has a low height and is guarded against power fluctuation and all other aspects for Indian market conditions are taken care of. Looking at today’s market in India, this press suits well, especially for the regional newspapers.” He adds, “The second area that we are focusing here is our Print Services. By this it does not mean supply of spare parts only. Under Print Services, we are looking at the Pecom-X and Market-X. Pecom-X is our operating system for Manroland presses. We are now making this technology available off the shelf and extending this operating system to other big non-Manroland equipments. We recently did a major upgrade with a Bobst press in the USA. Two more such upgrade jobs are underway. Unlike other companies doing such refurbishing and upgrade jobs, we are different. We are a full fledged printing company. So nobody understands a printing machines better than us. The second area that we are looking at is Market-X. We already have the Manroland store. What we are now doing is extending this platform to nonMan-roland equipments. Other equipment manufacturers, be it press, post press etc, can use this platform to sell their wares and services. Market-X will be an online platform, a global source for any manufacturers and buyers to sell and buy printing equipments and services.” The third area is Maintalligence, which means manroland’s maintenance using sensors. Sudeep elaborates, “We are trying to extend to the industry the concept of 4.0 in print. We use internet of things, data computing, cloud computing etc. to service printing presses. Earlier for printing presses, you had preventive maintenance, break down maintenance and then came

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in predictive maintenance. Now, using advanced computing technologies, are trying to predict when any equipment would fail and take appropriate timely action to eliminate downtime. We do this by putting in lots of devices and interconnecting all these by using internet of things so there is a data exchange between different devices and generate a report for the customer. We also extend this by using the data to do a data analytics. This is a concept which we are extending to the printing press; presently to Manroland presses and may add to other presses later. This we believe is the way for the future as the customers will be keen to reduce costs, increase production efficiency with lesser man power.” The other area manroland focused on was the Print.Com business, a portfolio of blankets, rubber rollers and press room chemicals. “We have tied up with some European suppliers and extending their services in India at Indian price,” says Sudeep. Speaking on the industry sentiment he puts in, “The entire Indian economy has slowed down and also the newspaper industry. One has to be aware of the slow down and take

precautionary steps to sustain and get over this slow down. It’s a temporary phase and I am very optimistic of the future. The economy will bounce back. The regional newspapers are growing, the national newspapers are retaining their markets – India is different, unlike the western countries,” he emphasises. As opposed to the threat of Digital media and e-newspapers etc., Sudeep sees the real threat in the fact that new generation is not reading as much as the earlier generations would. “Though the printed version of newspapers is growing, the next generation just reads the headlines and the mobile platforms are the best way to disseminate these headline news constantly. This would have happened even if digital had not come in. The change in reading habits has affected the newspaper industry. As regards opportunity we are now looking at a readership coverage of more than 12% of the population due to increase in literacy rates, and this is a huge opportunity for the industry. However, we have to keep innovating to disseminate news contents and give more value and returns to the advertisers,” he suggests.

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ABB: serving Indian newspaper industry since 2000 ABB has been associated with the newspaper industry globally for more than 100 years. In India ABB has a sizeable presence, though not directly. “Since 2000 we have been supplying our equipments to leading press manufacturers like Manroland and KBA,” informs Damian Staedeli, Head of Printing, ABB Switzerland. “We are also an independent supplier of Press Management Systems and Press Control Systems and integration to mail rooms,” adds Damian. “India is a growing market due to growth in literacy levels and their only immediate access to information is through newspapers. Our information is that this growth will reduce once more and more readers get access

headline readers and not interested in deep journalism and hence they get the news from Facebook, instagram, Google, television etc. The present culture is not to pay for these headline contents. Therefore the future is for local newspapers with local contents not covered by the online headline news snippets,” he continues, speaking about the Indian newspaper industry in general.

to internet and mobile applications. But the printed version of the newspaper will become a premium product in the future. Online editions will serve the mass market in the future. The present generation are

When asked about the GST, he says that earlier taxation was very high for imported equipments. “I understand that all these have been rationalized and thus it would be good for the industry,” he concludes as he was speaking to PRESSIdeas during the show.

Muller Martini (India) highlights entire range of Mailroom System Muller Martini (India) highlighted the entire range of their Mailroom System at the WAN-IFRA India Conference. The mailroom specialist presented the Conveying system the newly launched NewsgripS – a single grip conveying system launched three years back. “We have several installations of this system in Malayala Manorama at their different print locations,” says P.R. Lakshminarayanan, GM, Muller Martini (India). “Recently they have added three more lines which will be installed in 2018. We also have a relatively more economical conveyance system called the NewsVeyor which is for lower speed presses of less than 50000 cph which requires only one stacker for delivery. Then we are focusing on our Inserting systems – the Flexline and FlexPack which were displayed in the last Drupa,” he adds about the other highlights at the expo. Sharing his views about the newspaper industry today, he says that the industry is growing but “the situation is not the same with all the newspapers. It is different at different places with different segments across the country. Some of the regional language newspapers are growing faster than the English language newspapers. The expansion and growth is more in Tier II cities than in the major metros. So we expect more investments in the coming years in these areas and regional language newspapers.” On the invasion of Digital and e-papers, he

says that though these new products may take away some readers yet there would be new readers, especially from the rural areas where the literacy rate is growing. “Moreover the government is focusing more on education which will provide new opportunities for the newspapers,” he believes. “There is an ongoing process with all major newspaper publishers to present the contents and advertisements in more innovative ways which are bound to increase readership and give more mileage to advertisers, thus increase the revenue for the publishers as well. Muller Martini has some very special solutions in this respect, which has still not caught up here in India. Progressively those ideas will become relevant here too,” he continues.

Lakshminarayanan looks confident about the positive outcome of new government regulations including GST, “We stand to benefit with the implementation of GST. The sale process is more seamless and there is lot of tax credits which are more beneficial to both the seller and the consumer.” However, Muller Martini has not taken any initiative towards the “Make in India” efforts of the government as “we don’t find the required volumes in the Indian market”, says Lakshminarayanan. WAN-IFRA was a good show for Muller Martini. “Reducing the length of the show by WAN-IFRA has been a move in the right direction. With only paid visitors, the quality of the visitors was good and there was no adverse effect of the change,” he concludes.

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OneVision Software’s new Raster HD for higher level of colour tones Sundaram Sathappan, Technical Support Manager, OneVision Software, was at WANIFRA India Conference. He told PRESSIdeas that their focus this time was the new product Raster HD. The high definition screening with the RIP is a combination of FM and AM. “This gives a higher level of colour tones,” says Sundaram, “than a regular FM or conventional screen. We also have image enhancement solutions. We have many customers in India for these products.” OneVision had a good show. The industry, according to Sundaram, is doing well, particularly in the regional and micro level vernacular newspapers. “The National level newspapers do have a fixed market. We are optimistic of the future,” he continues. OneVision now serves a wider spectrum of industries. Earlier it had been predominantly catering the newspaper industry. “But now our products have wider applications in different markets like wide format printing, digital printing, labeling, packaging, commercial printing etc. We have diversified

into different segments and look forward to serving many neighbouring countries around India which are still to be explored by us,” he adds. OneVision had the same foot falls as they got

last year. The expo had been reduced to two days this time from earlier three days. “For us it does not make any difference, since it is only the conference delegates who are allowed to visit the expo during the break out sessions,” he concludes.

Aarushi highlights Web Blankets range at WAN-IFRA Aarushi Agencies highlighted their range of Web Blankets at the recent WAN-IFRA India Expo. “We have a new series of blankets for web applications which are very versatile,” informs Ashish Sharma, MD, Aarushi Agencies. The latest blankets feature high compressibility and excellent printability. Ashish finds a lot of opportunities in present newspaper industry. “Though in the long run, digital may replace newspaper printing as a media, in India the newspaper growth is static and steady, which is good for us,” he says. “In the developed economies the newspaper industry has slowed down,” he adds. In India, he says, the vernacular and regional newspapers are still growing since there are large un-penetrated areas for the newspaper industry in rural areas. Even the national newspapers are looking to enter into these markets.

three days to a two days show, Ashish don’t find it of much help for business. “We prepared for a three day event. A two day event will not give the exhibitors the exposure they are looking for,” he says.

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short term impact on advertisement revenue generation, according to Ashish, but in the long run GST will have a positive effect on the industry. “Everything depends on the growth of the Indian economy and advertisement revenue generation,” he concludes.

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QIPC-EAE India: Upgrade to add 5 to 10 years to your presses “In this show we are highlighting the Desk 7 console, which we had launched in the last Drupa,” reveals Vijay Pandya, MD, QIPC-EAE India during the WAN-IFRA India Conference and Expo in Chennai. The Desk 7 console is an innovative, ergonomically developed, nicely designed control console which is the central control for any press. This console enables entire press operation control from a single desk. “This is an extremely user-friendly equipment and makes the operator’s life quite simple during press operations,” says Vijay Pandya. QIPC recently had a synergic tie-up with EAE. With this tie up QIPC-EAE will offer a complete package to newspaper houses to refurbish their old presses to extend their life and make them more efficient and operator friendly. “Given the present sluggish growth and stagnant situation in the newspaper industry, reviving and refurbishing existing presses can be highly beneficial for newspaper producers who can add 5 to 10 years to the life of their existing newspaper presses through QIPC-EAE upgrades,” adds Vijay. Vijay perceives that the economic slowdown

due to recent government regulations has subsided and the industry, particularly the vernacular newspapers are showing signs of growth. “Fresh investments are now happening in this segment and ideas for improvisation of the newspaper industry are taking place. I am very optimistic about the industry as of now,” he stresses.

inclined to the print media. Till such time the Print Media will find more opportunities and potential to grow,” he concludes.

“Though Digital and Internet are key threats to the newspaper industry, to have any effect of significance, next seven to ten years look smooth. Presently, the readers are also more

APL Machinery showcases UV and LED UV Curing Systems Faridabad based APL Machinery displayed LED UV and UV curing system for the Web Offset newspaper industry at the recently concluded WAN-IFRA expo and conference in Chennai. “Like every other industry, the Indian newspaper industry was going through difficult times but it will come out of this difficult phase soon,” shared C.P. Paul, CMD, APL Machinery while speaking to PRESSIdeas. The threat from the Digital process is more keenly felt in the western world but in India it will take another four to five years for Digital to really make inroads, he thinks. At the moment newspapers in India is a growing industry. Both national and regional vernacular newspapers are growing. “We see big advertisers for online shopping like Amazon and Flipkart etc. are advertising in the national newspapers for reaching their targeted markets. India has the largest

circulation for printed newspapers in the world,” he adds. Speaking about his range of offerings, Paul says, “Our products like LED UV and UV curing will give more options for print finishing of the printed newspaper. With these new and wider print finishing options the

printed newspaper can be more effectively and attractively presented to the readers. This can not only increase their circulation but also increase their price and margins.” He concludes by saying that the temporary effect of recent changes like GST, once overcome would be positive for the industry.

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Cadgraf Digital integrates various solutions in one single system Cadgraf Digital’s WAN-IFRA focus included their range of solutions for the newspaper industry. All integrated into one single system, Cadgraf offered – Anygraf editorial workflow system, advertisement booking system and CR system and the Circulation and Booking system. “The second product that we are showing here is from MWM, Finland,” says A.Elangovan, MD, Cadgraf Digital. “With this product we can track the production process in a newspaper house using a sensor, in our mobile. How many copies have been printed; what is the speed at which the press is running; wastage at different stages etc. – all these can be measured. It can integrate both the press and the post press,” explains E.Anand Jeeth, Director, Cadgraf Digital. “Now that our customers are coming out of the temporary adverse effect of recent government regulations and having accepted them, we hope to grow our business this year as compared to the last year which was more or less static for us,” continues Elangovan. He thinks that, unlike other global markets, the Indian newspaper market has still some potential to grow and is growing year on year. “There is a huge potential for Indian language newspapers. As the population is getting more and more literate the first thing they do is to read newspapers. This leaves many areas uncovered by newspapers today. Special issues, Focused issues, Innovative

ways of presenting news and advertisements are all potential areas for growth. The national English newspapers have more or less reached their potential. This segment is now more into digital newspapers. But on the whole we are very optimistic about the newspaper industry,” he explains. Summing up the threats and opportunities of the newspaper industry, he says, “Digital and the Social Media like Facebook, Google etc. are supposed to be the biggest threats for the printed newspaper. But, I see these

platforms as the real opportunity for the printed version, since authentic and quality content for these social media platforms comes from the printed version. These very qualities of the printed newspaper content will be its lifeline for a long time to come. This authentic, verified and edited content of the printed newspaper will have much for value for the reader and he will keep coming back for it for years to come. The news paper publishers will have to refocus their products and offerings to go with the present taste of the readers, to stay alive.”

New low height Manugraph Ecoline can be operated from floor level “Apart from our regular products, we are focusing here our new machine – Ecoline Newspaper press with a speed of 25000 cph,” says Sanjay Shah, Director, Manugraph Industries. He was speaking to PRESSIdeas during the recent WAN-IFRA. He tells that the height of the tower of this press is 2.7 meters. “The height being low, there is no need for a gallery and an operator can operate the press from the floor itself,” he reveals. Manugraph has already supplied five Ecoline to Punjab Kesari newspaper. Two have been installed and two are under installation. Manugraph is also coming up with a new press – the SLINE. This is a single width machine with the edit feature over CITILINE Express, and can print 40000 cph.

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“The newspaper industry in India is very good. We have many installations for regional newspapers, especially in south India,” says Sanjay. Speaking on GST, he says, “GST is beneficial for our business. It is much easier to do business now than before.” However, he cites cost being both a threat as well as opportunity for the industry. “Cost is an important factor for the industry – producing low cost machines will be a big opportunity. Our design for low cost press is in the pipeline and we will inform the industry duly. Cost of production is a threat as well,” he says.

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India to see Inkjet volumes explode in 5 yrs, says Martyn Train In an exclusive interview to PRESSIdeas, Martyn Train, GM, Graphic Communications, DMO, Xerox Corporation talks about Xerox’s Indian focus, Digital market, key offerings and more.

Xerox’s DMO focus in India is a combination of consolidation and capturing growth. Consolidating growth in toner based cut sheet machines with new launches of C70, Versant180, Versant 3100, iGen 5 and converging it with best growing applications like packaging and general commercial printing is the key area.” – Martyn Train

Key Notes : > Inkjet still in its infancy in India; large traditional players in Transactional and Book Publishing investing. > 21 percent of the photo products have moved into Digital printing, which is Rs 700 crore market now. > Photo printing & Xerox iGen 5 – a unique colour palate beyond usual CMYK, providing a competitive advantage in the marketplace today.

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Martyn Train, GM, Graphic Communications, DMO, Xerox Corporation has been associated with Xerox for 21 years, the last five and a half years of which, he is with Xerox Developing Markets. According to him, recently Xerox has collectively delivered some landmark growth performances in difficult and volatile geographies and this as well holds true for Xerox India which achieved great milestones too. “The mid-range colour space has grown significantly over the last 5 years, especially so in India and Xerox plays a leading role in this market,” says Martyn. High end mono volumes have bucked the global trend and grown for Xerox India, fuelled by shorter-run Book Publishing and more recently the demonetisation. “Inkjet is still in its infancy in India relative to the whole market size with some large traditional players in Transactional and Book Publishing having already taken steps to invest. I have absolutely no doubt Inkjet volumes are going to explode in India over the next 5 years as capability, smaller footprint, reduced levels of capital investment and cost down gives greater access to the technology,” believes Martyn.

Xerox Developing Markets Operation – Inkjet, a real growth area Xerox’s DMO focus in India is a combination of consolidation and capturing growth. Consolidating growth in toner based cut sheet machines with new launches of C70, Versant180, Versant 3100, iGen 5 and converging it with best growing applications like packaging and general commercial printing is the key area, according to Martyn. Another key focus area, he says, is capturing growth existing in the Inkjet business where Xerox has fantastic offering on both cut-sheet and continuousfeed machines – from Brenva to Rialto to fast speed Trivor machines – which largely cater to the Publishing, Transactional and Direct Mail printing. Xerox is focused on all segments of Commercial print in DMO, as globally Xerox has a portfolio of solutions to help address the needs of its customers in all segments. Inkjet, is a real growth area. Xerox is developing its iGen technology to help in the Photo,

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Commercial print and Packaging spaces. Most recently, it announced white dry ink toner for iGen that will be shown at Print 17 in Chicago in September. “In Xerox Developing Markets, the key characteristics I observe is the sales and partner work ethic and intimacy with their clients – it’s incredibly close, much more so than I’ve observed elsewhere in different geographies,” observes Martyn. “Our growth is driven by true partnership between ourselves, our partners and our clients, solving problems together, grabbing opportunity together,” he adds.

New growth opportunities and Digital Production of Books and Catalogues According to Martyn, there is a lot of potential in the Digital printing market led by rise in Photo-printing, Book Publishing, Shortrun jobs and much more. For example, the Wedding Photography industry today is about Rs 1,800 crore business with a demand for 7.5 million wedding photo albums every year. Roughly 21 percent of the photo products have moved into Digital printing, which is Rs 700 crore market now. “We’re one of the few companies that have such a vast breadth of offerings. We’ve developed a variety of products and solutions ranging from the entry-segment to the mid- and high-end segment,” states Martyn. “We’ve launched a slew of products like Color C60/C70 with energy saving capacities, Versant 80 and Versant 2100 with banner printing capabilities and the ColorPress 1000i with gold and silver ink. All these products are designed to meet specific customer needs like banner printing, book publishing, photo printing etc. and can help accelerate business growth,” he adds. Further, for Photo printing, the Xerox iGen 5 offers a unique colour palate beyond usual CMYK, which can provide a competitive advantage in the marketplace today. These products demonstrate Xerox’s commitment to the market and in 2017, Xerox plans to further strengthen its product portfolio and bring innovative solutions to help customers focus on what matters most – meeting their customer’s needs.

The Digital printing market in India has evolved over the years and today, applications and solutions are essentials in this segment. The overall Printing market in India is growing and Digital printing is one segment that has shown strong growth numbers. It’s driven by improved levels of service, increased versioning and personalization to make targeted printing for end users – and providing Xerox customers new opportunities for business growth. “If you see our Digital Presses, they’re segmented in a way that customers can pick and choose based on their business needs so that the devices can add value rather than being a cost churner,” stresses Martyn.

Xerox’s technologies – leading the future digital production in India “The government’s ‘Digital India’ initiative is transforming the country into a digital-first economy at a rapid rate,” considers Martyn. “Digital is now touching every aspect of our lives across governance, utility services,

transportation, education, healthcare and banking. This transformation is shepherded by adoption of technologies like cloud, mobility, analytics and collaboration tools,” he elaborates. This year, Xerox launched 29 ConnectKey-enabled printers and multifunction devices with simple and secure on-the-go capabilities, cloud connectivity, and access to productivity boosting features and apps. The new ConnectKey portfolio transforms traditional printing devices into smart, connected workplace assistants that reflect the evolving needs of today’s businesses. Personalized workflows, onetouch access to the cloud and multi-layered security features are the new print, copy and fax. The family of products include a variety of sizes, speeds and capabilities to match the needs of small- and medium-sized businesses as well as large enterprises, with a consistent user experience across the portfolio. The new products include the VersaLink and AltaLink series. The VersaLink devices are designed for small workgroups and distributed teams, and include 19 printers and multifunction printers (MFPs). The AltaLink series include 10 MFPs designed for larger workgroups or

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print volume needs. Both product lines offer streamlined business processes, industryleading intuitive user experience, mobile & cloud readiness and total security for both documents and devices. “Xerox is also focused on creating innovative technologies that help organizations achieve their sustainability goals, such as going paperless. Going paperless not only improves efficiencies and brings transparency at workplaces but it also reduces the carbon footprint by nearly eliminating paper, printing, shipping and other document handling costs. We’ve also developed products that consume less power,” describes Martyn.

Xerox at HID – showcases how Inkjet solutions enable customers to move into today’s biggest growth areas At the recent Hunkeler Innovationdays, customers were excited to get the right technology at a reduced cost compared to traditional Inkjet presses – Xerox’s lower cost systems making Inkjet more accessible and open new business opportunities for customers. Throughout HID, Xerox showcased how its Inkjet solutions enable customers to move into today’s biggest growth areas including catalogues, books, transactional and direct mail. “We showcased our Inkjet solutions and demonstrated how they enable customers

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to move into today’s biggest growth areas including Catalogues, Books, Transactional and Direct Mail. The Xerox entry Inkjet portfolio featured at Hunkeler Innovationdays (HID) includes the Xerox Brenva HD Production Inkjet Press, Xerox Trivor 2400 Inkjet Press and Xerox Rialto 900 Inkjet Press. In addition to these, Xerox FreeFlow Core, Xerox FreeFlow Digital Publisher, XMPie PersonalEffect suite, XMPie Circle and XMPie Campaigns-on-Demand were also displayed at the show,” informs Martyn. Digitally produced book pages in Western Europe and the U.S. will surpass 160 billion pages in 2019 and more than 40 billion colour catalogue pages will be printed annually on digital devices in Western Europe and the U.S. Xerox’s new Inkjet technology demonstrated at Hunkeler is available now for print providers to take advantage of these market opportunities. The Xerox Trivor 2400 Inkjet Press with High Fusion Ink delivers a wider colour gamut that, when combined with less-expensive standard Offset coated stocks, puts more high-quality Book and Catalogue jobs within the reach of Inkjet production.

Niche applications for Inkjet production Two of Xerox’s most versatile solutions for Digital production that print in both colour and black and white are:

The Xerox Rialto 900 Inkjet Press, which features two in-line finishing options: a dynamic perforator and second dual highcapacity stacker. The dynamic perforator enables the creation of horizontal, vertical or t-section tear offs — such as coupons, reply cards and payment stubs — opening up new opportunities in the transactional and direct mail markets. The Xerox Brenva HD Production Inkjet Press, which can accommodate up to eight different paper drawers, handle stock weights from 60-220 gsm, and up to a B3 Plus sheet size. InfoTrends’ 2012–2017 U.S. Digital Production Printing Application Forecast explores 28 specific application segments (promotional, publishing, transactional, packaging, utility, consumer and general office) and measures digitally printed application volume changes in several key market segments. The Book market shows the largest gains of all segments, with a predicted increase of over 40 billion pages during the five-year span. Applications such as Direct Mail, Magazines, Catalogues and Brochures are also expected to make healthy gains in Digital production.

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Xerox Trivor 2400 Inkjet Press – a technology of choice The Trivor 2400 gives customers the flexibility to move into Catalogues, Magazines and the Book production market, and accelerates growth and drives the production of more high-value applications such as Transactional, Book Publishing and Direct Mail. It combines a base of proven imaging technologies with new innovations to deliver the next level in 20” continuous feed performance— all in a highly compact footprint. Coupled with a new digital front end, this system makes the process of meeting demanding SLAs easier than ever before. The Trivor provides printers with a platform built to grow as business demands increase with the same machine scaling up for more speed, volume and solutions. It combines high performance and increased speed up to 551 feet/168 meters per minute in colour and 656 feet/200 meters per minute in monochrome. It’s equipped with reliable image quality including inline density optimization, clear pixel technology, and missing jet detection and correction. It’s also one of the only single engines capable of printing in duplex.

Personalized Catalogues are interesting More than 40 billion colour catalogue pages are printed annually on digital devices in Western Europe and the U.S. according to research Xerox conducted in partnership with InfoTrends.

information to be sent to individuals. Printed catalogues also complement online marketing as they allow a different media with which to be creative – media type, coatings, metallics, format size etc. “It’s definitely a segment to explore now with inkjet and toner based technology, plus workflow solutions that enable the once static catalogue to really come alive,” suggests Martyn.

Plans to take elements of HID forums to publishers Xerox plans to take elements of both HID forums to global publishers in 2017. “We have seen the benefits of these solutions in Publishing industries globally; India is surely following the trend in volume,” says Martyn. “Our objective is to take this value

and message to end customers, especially Publishers and Book Printers, and highlight our global strength. Locally, Xerox has exhibited at Indian Trade fairs during 2017 and we’ll also be taking our Versant solutions on a roadshow around other cites – Kochi and Chennai,” he continues. “Please come and see us, let’s talk about your business objectives over the coming years. I’m sure we at Xerox, with our partners can develop real value add, compelling solutions for all our clients, much more than just providing an item of hardware, to allow us all to not just grow, but prosper together – for the long term,” he concludes.

In order to explore this segment further, Digital print vendors need to help the Publishing industry remain efficient and competitive as their business models change. Personalization and relevancy are extremely important in today’s market. Companies have to sell their brand and ethos to consumers before selling them their products. Retailers must have a communications strategy that is relevant to the activity and loyalty of customers. The personalized catalogues segment is interesting. Not everyone buys online, many millions don’t. Now behavioural purchasing data is now being captured to allow real dynamic, timely, personalized and relevant

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HP Digital Printing Technology at PRINT 17 - Powering PSPs with growth opportunities

At PRINT 17, HP announced double-digit growth in its graphics customers’ commercial digital page volume, alongside accelerated adoption of its digital presses by leading print service providers worldwide as they grow business in a connected world. The volume of pages digitally printed by HP Indigo and HP Page Wide Web Press customers is growing by approximately 15 percent compared to last year, amid continued momentum in the analogue-to-digital transformation in an overall market that is relatively flat. HP also announced the 600th HP Indigo Series 4 large format digital press sold worldwide to American Litho, following its purchase last week of an HP Indigo 12000 Digital Press. Some 50 HP Indigo 30000 digital presses for folding cartons have also been installed, with Arroweye adding a second press. The oversized B1 HP Indigo 50000 Digital Press is also now commercially available following successful beta testing at Creel Printing.

“As we continue seeing market transformation driven by the evolving behaviour of brands, we are also seeing our digital printing customers growing, enjoying doubledigit page growth, and creating new ways to use print.” - Santi Morera

Key Notes : > Connecting print to today’s world with innovative solutions showcased at PRINT 17. > Double-digit growth in its graphics customers’ commercial digital page volume. > The oversized B1 HP Indigo 50000 Digital Press is now commercially available.

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Additionally, Quad/Graphics has installed an HP PageWide Web Press T490 to expand its existing marketing solutions platform. A global marketing services provider with a strong print foundation, Quad/Graphics will use the new press to deliver 1:1 and hyper personalized products. At PRINT 17, HP unveiled breakthrough technology, setting new industry benchmarks for quality, productivity and colour. The HP Indigo 12000 HD

Digital Press doubles print resolution delivering sharper, smoother, finer print, opening new digital application opportunities. For HP PageWide Web Presses, new print performance technology for the HP PageWide Web Press T240 HD will enable production of more highquality digital pages economically for publishing, direct mail and commercial print. Customers have already reached 250 billion printed pages, now printing 5.5 billion pages per month. “As we continue seeing market transformation driven by the evolving behaviour of brands, we are also seeing our digital printing customers growing, enjoying double-digit page growth, and creating new ways to use print,” said Santi Morera, general manager, HP Inc. Graphics Solutions Business. “HP technologies can help print service providers address a wider range of commercial printing applications. This is driving PSPs to adjust their operating models and services.”

PSPs and brands seizing unique opportunities with HP digital HP customers and brands are taking advantage of the unique and powerful print and software capabilities of HP digital to reinvent their businesses and offer customers opportunities to connect to print. They include:

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Shutterfly, online retailer and manufacturer of high-quality personalized products and services, is now adding a second phase of HP Indigo 12000 Digital Presses and named HP as its preferred digital press provider for five years, following 25 units successfully installed in 2016. It will use the presses this holiday season to produce photo books, holiday cards, and keepsakes, while benefitting from the unique capabilities of the press including wide substrate versatility. Chatbooks, mobile app-based company, supplies a printing service that feeds images from smartphones for printing on HP Indigo digital presses at a network of PSPs around the world. A photo book is printed and shipped weekly by Chatbooks to subscribers to help smartphone photographers preserve photo memories. Hudson Printing received more than 100,000 Mother’s Day card orders, each with individualized photos and hand-written messages via mobile app Inkly. Using HP PrintOS Site Flow and the HP Indigo 10000 Digital Press, Hudson was able to batch, print and mail them all within 48 hours and in time for the holiday. Webcom is helping book publishers address their needs for efficient, high-quality, shortrun book production on its HP PageWide Web Presses by partnering with HP in the development of HP’s One Book solution powered by PrintOS Site Flow. Nulab, an Australian printer, is using HP Indigo digital presses and 7-colour printing, including HP Indigo ElectroInk Light Light Black, to achieve silver halide look and feel and transition to fully digital printing. The company’s printing products have earned it a total of 13 printing awards, including the coveted Benny, the top prize for digital printing novelty books.

HP at PRINT 17 HP’s booth (#613) at PRINT 17 offered exciting print experiences: HP PrintOS workflow solutions operated hands-on stations for the web-based and mobile PrintOS apps for optimizing print. Visitors could send enhanced photographs from the MomentCam mobile app for printing as posters, via HP PrintOS Site Flow, to the HP Indigo 12000 Digital Press on the show floor.

HP Link Technology created new publishing experiences, with co-authors Dr. Joe Webb and Richard Romano presenting and signing their book Third Wave at daily happy hours. Printed on an HP PageWide Web Press by King Printing, live HP Link enabled hyperlinks were included for scanning throughout the book, presenting additional content from the Internet, as well as launching additional interactive experiences. HP SmartStream Edge and Spine printing, winner of a 2017 MUST SEE ‘EMs Award, is a new, dynamic image option for printing an image on the front edge or side edge of a book. The effect is noticeable on the imposed, printed and finished job. Printing a single picture on the spines of a set of books is an additional option.

More about additional presses and printers at the show: HP Indigo 7900 Digital Press, HP Indigo WS6800 Digital Press, HP Indigo 5900 Digital Press, HP Latex 3600 Printer, HP PageWide XL 8000 Printer, HP Latex 570 Printer, HP DesignJet Z6800 Photo Production Printer, and HP Specialty Printing Systems (SPS) solutions using thermal inkjet technology. Thanks to Microsoft HoloLens technology, visitors at the HP booth could simultaneously interact with a virtual press while exploring real-life samples and applications and communicating with HP experts. Using a holographic headband, visitors enjoyed an extended reality experience into HP digital presses and applications on the HP Indigo 20000 Digital Press and HP PageWide Web Press T490 HD.

Innovative Ink from Xerox to change economics of Commercial Inkjet printing Xerox India has announced the launch of Xerox Trivor 2400 High Fusion Inkjet Press that produces high-quality results direct to Offset coated paper on the Trivor 2400, removing the need for intermediate coating processes, primers or added hardware. The Trivor 2400 High Fusion InkjetPress allows print providers to expand their inkjet media range to produce cost-effective, higher-value personalized jobs such as direct mail, catalogues, magazines and colour books. High Fusion Ink is specially formulated to optimize printing and drying on offset coated media including matte, silk and glass stock from 60 to 250 gsm, up to 250 feet per minute. Speaking on the launch, Balaji Rajagopalan, Executive Director - Technology & Channels, India and International Business - ‎Xerox India said, “We are thrilled to announce the launch of Xerox Trivor 2400. It’s an exciting time to be in Inkjet. According to InfoTrends, Production Colour Inkjet Print will account for 57% of the total Production Digital colour page volume by 2019. This represents a tremendous opportunity for print providers and the time to get in the Inkjet game is now.” “For many Commercial printers, the cost savings derived from Inkjet technology was offset by the expense of pre-or-post

coating the paper or having to purchase specialty inkjet coated paper. We aim to offer transformative Inkjet offerings that not only enhance production economics but also enable greater productivity and flexibility – while at the same time allowing an easier path to entry,” he further added. “The speed, great colour range and ability to print on regular offset coated stock with no pre-or post-treatment makes the Trivor 2400 High Fusion Inkjet Press a breakthrough innovation in production inkjet,”said David Zwang, principal consultant, Zwang& Co. While High Fusion Ink is optimized for commodity Offset coated papers, it also runs on a range of uncoated media, providing cost-effective redundancy for a versatile set of print jobs. The Xerox Trivor 2400 High Fusion Inkjet Press will be available for installs starting in October worldwide.

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Siemens and HP partner to advance 3D printing HP’s Multi Jet Fusion 3D printing technology integrated with Siemens’ flagship NX software for product development and manufacturing

With the creation of HP-certified Additive Manufacturing (AM) software module from Siemens, HP and Siemens have decided to accelerate 3D printing for industrial production. The new software module, Siemens NX AM for HP Multi Jet Fusion, is now available from Siemens PLM Software as an extension to Siemens’ end-to-end design-toproduction solution for additive manufacturing.

Siemens NX users can maximize the number of prints to be executed within the HP Multi Jet Fusion 3D printer build volume by loading multiple 3D part models into NX, and then auto nesting and submitting them (powered by integrated Materialise capabilities) directly to the HP 3D printer.

Key Notes : > HP Siemens join hands for productionscale industrial 3D printing. > New Siemens’ NX AM for HP Multi Jet Fusion software module officially certified by HP. > Partnership aligns technology roadmaps for next generation HP Multi Jet Fusion 3D printers.

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The NX software module will allow customers to develop and manage parts in a single software environment for their HP 3D printing projects, avoid costly and time-consuming data conversions and third-party tools, and improve their overall design-tofinished-part workflow efficiency. Siemens and HP are also aligning future technology roadmaps to enable designers and engineers to completely re-imagine products to take advantage of HP’s 3D printing capabilities, escape the limitations of conventional manufacturing, and cost-effectively produce new products at faster speeds. This in turn will lead to greatly expanded opportunities for the industrial 3D printing of innovative designs. Siemens’ new software module will enable NX customers to combine design, optimization, simulation, preparation of print jobs, and inspection processes for HP Multi Jet Fusion 3D printed parts in a managed environment. Users can now load multiple 3D part models into NX, and auto nest and submit them to an HP 3D printer, all in a single environment and with a minimum of steps. The NX and Multi Jet Fusion integration also eliminates the need for data conversion between software applications or process steps and, in the future, is intended to allow unprecedented control, including material characteristics down to the individual voxellevel. This will result in the ability to print parts with variable textures, density, strength and friction, as well as thermal, electrical, and conductivity characteristics. “HP and Siemens are bringing together the best in design and manufacturing workflow software for the best in 3D printing, unleashing a wave of new product possibilities with the speed, quality, and economics required for the modern digital industrial era,” said Michelle Bockman, global head of 3D Printing Commercial Expansion and Development, HP Inc. “We look forward to collaborating with Siemens to continually raise the industry bar on what’s possible

for customers with the voxel-level design capabilities of our Multi Jet Fusion 3D printing solutions.” Siemens and HP share the objective to industrialize additive manufacturing. HP’s award-winning Multi Jet Fusion 3D printing solution is a production-ready commercial 3D printing system that delivers superior quality physical parts up to 10 times faster and at nearly half the cost. With Siemens’ comprehensive offering covering product lifecycle management (PLM) and electronic design automation (EDA) software, integrated automation and manufacturing operations management, combined with HP’s 3D printing solutions, manufacturers have the tools to establish additive manufacturing as a truly industrial production process. Both companies continue to work together and with other industry leaders to create an important ecosystem of partners who can help realize the goal of additive manufacturing as a viable production alternative. “At Siemens, we see additive manufacturing as a transformative digital force that is empowering companies to re-imagine their products and factories to achieve new levels of business performance,” said Zvi Feuer, senior vice president of Manufacturing

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As products become more complex and individualized, we look forward to the next frontier of 3D printed parts with multiple materials, tunable mechanical properties and integrated electronics.”

Engineering Software, Siemens PLM Software. “Deepening our partnership with HP and driving their innovative 3D printing technology is especially important as companies look to increase speed to market, differentiate on product performance, simplify production and supply chain operations, and implement new business models.

In October 2016 Siemens introduced a new comprehensive solution to unleash the full potential of the burgeoning additive manufacturing revolution. The solution is comprised of integrated design, simulation, digital manufacturing, data and process management software. The set of offerings helps companies fully leverage the benefits of the latest additive manufacturing technology. In the past 12 months Siemens also delivered a baseline of eight new NX based Additive

Manufacturing software modules. Their customers now have access to AM modules for AM design, lattice design, topology optimization, NASTRAN optimization, simulation, and printing – including build tray configuration, support structures and nesting (2D+3D). They are working closely on many AM projects with NX customers to integrate modules designed for their businesses.

Canon India sells all Print Expo products on display Putting up an excellent show at PrintExpo 2017, Canon India succeeded in selling all the products on display. The 9th edition of the Print Expo exhibition witnessed active participation from Canon, where the brand reinforced its range of digital offerings byshowcasing its new range of products. The company displayed its latest range of technology, including imagePRESSC8000VP, imagePRESSC650, imageRUNNER ADVANCE 8585 PRO, imagePROGRAF PRO-540S, imagePROGRAF771 with MFP L36 scanner. Equipped with industry-defining features and technology, these machines signify remarkable quality, productivity and versatility across a vast variety of applications. Canon succeeded in selling all of its products on display with an impressive footfall at the stall this year. Visitors to the Canon stall were amazed with an interactive print gallery, where different applications of the products were brought to life. The gallery provided them the platform to elaborately understand the product techniques and utility, which all the displayed Canon products can offer. Mr. Puneet Datta, Director, Professional Printing Products, Canon India, was invited by the organisers to inaugurate the exhibition. While commenting on the success of the event, Mr. Datta, said, “Print Expo has always been an excellent platform to

showcase the best and innovative product line-up in the digital printing domain. At Canon India, we are committed to reach the farthest geographies of the country, with our state-of-the-art technologies and solutions. Such platforms enable this outreach by connecting us to the right set of audience. All the products showcased at Print Expo signify versatility, quality and performance which is best suited for the evolving needs of commercial printing environments.”

“Over the years, South India has emerged as the fastest growing market and a hub for superior image quality printing. Our varied product portfolio and innovative solutions successfully meet the needs of this market by providing business efficiency, productivity and infrastructure optimization. Platforms like Print Expo provide a perfect medium to connect with our customers along with getting an overview of the industry progress.” he further added.

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Konica Minolta at Print Expo 2017 Exhibits its cutting edge printing solutions at the recent Chennai exhibition.

Business Unit, Konica Minolta Business Solutions India at the expo. Konica Minolta also showcased several other high-potential digital presses like bizhub Press C1100/ C1085, bizhub PRO 1100 & KIP 7170, wide format printing solution at the Expo. Some of the key features which these solutions incorporate are as follows:

Konica Minolta showcased its comprehensive line up of printing solutions at Print Expo India 2017 organised at Chennai Trade Centre, Chennai. The exhibition witnessed the presence of more than 3000 visitors who garnered a detailed understanding of Konica Minolta’s KIP range, MGI line-up, Web 2 P1rint solutions and Accurio Pro series. Konica Minolta’s printing line-up gathered an overwhelming response from the attendees which included several bookings from the recently showcased wide format printing

solution, KIP 7170 at Print Expo. Apart from that the attendees were also attracted to other Konica Minolta presses including the recently launched Accurio Press C2070/2060 and MGI Jet Varnish. ‘’Our printing solutions are specifically tailored for mid-range businesses which are witnessing a rapid demand of scalability in their operations. With our proprietary technologies such as the Simitri HDE toner and S.E.A.D. IV image processing, we have ushered a new era in the printing segment,’’ said Yoshinori Koide, Marketing Head, PP

bizhub PRESS C1100/ C1085 comes as an ideal solution for small as well as mid-range printing businesses which deal in small volume orders and variable data printing jobs while the KIP 7170 machine by Konica Minolta is a powerful, modular solution for wide-format printing in any production environment. The Accurio Press C2070/ C2060 solutions showcased by Konica Minolta features a high speed dual scanning at speeds up to 240 ipm for hard-copy originals; 1200 x 1200 DPI resolution with 8-bit processing for smoother, more realistic images. The bizhub PRO 1100 on the other hand delivers real value to any print production environment – with high-speed 100 ppm B&W output, high paper and toner capacity, standard built-in print controller and compact footprint to save space on production floors. Detailing more on the growth of printing industry in India, Kuldeep Malhotra, Vice President (Sales Planning & Communication), Konica Minolta India said, ‘’We at Konica Minolta are committed to maintain our leadership position in the Digital Professional printing division. We are glad to be a part of Print Expo 2017 which comes as a strategic platform for us to showcase our cutting edge solutions embedded with trend setting technologies which are helping printing businesses garner high quality outputs in stringent deadlines.’’

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Monotech Systems installed JETSCI VSRI in Philippines DTM solution is a uniquely designed Slitter rewinder, JETSCI YUV Inkjet printing and UV Curing system capable of printing Variable data at 150 m/min. Monotech Systems, one of India’s leading equipment manufacturers, has installed the flagship JETSCI VSRI solution integrated with the YUV Inkjet system at one of the leading label printers in the Philippines- DTM Print and Labels Specialist. Inc. Neeraj Thappa, GM – International Sales, Monotech Systems, says, “We offer state of the art technology solutions to the label printing industry based on the customized requirements of customers. Monotech Systems specializes in providing bespoke turnkey end-to-end solutions to the customers integrated with our own manufactured Industrial Inkjet printing systems. We have wide range of inkjet printing systems covering most of the customer requirements, whether it is related to budget, speed, resolutions, quality and as per application workflow on different substrates. All JETSCI inkjet printing systems are made reviewing minute/fine details of requirements so that customers can get the most benefits out of the systems, we care

for customers.” The JETSCI VSRI Installed at DTM has complete solution with uniquely designed Slitter rewinder, JETSCI YUV Inkjet printing system of 330 mm, UV Curing system, and printing Variable data at the speeds of up to 150 m/min. It’s a modular unit and can be upgraded to next levels on field any time later if required like to add the camera inspection and verification system. Mr. Kingsley- Director at DTM says, “We were looking for the Hi-speed Inkjet Systems for some time now and Monotech System’ JETSCI was one of them. I visited the ‘JETSCI Center of Excellence’ in India for a live Demonstration scheduled for few days,

but after arriving at the New Delhi facility, I was clear in 6 hours as to what solution and configuration I need for the same. I was delighted with the sales and the post sales experience as all the commitments were met, plus the installation process planned was smooth. The system was installed – up and was running as per schedule. The Production and Operations team was trained for 2 days’ time and the JETSCI VSRI was put into production. Since the system is modular and upgradable, we do look to various options by which new applications can be addressed and developed.” DTM is one of the major supplier and manufacturer of Quality Printed Labels, Printed Stickers, Printed Tags and Tickets, License Plate, Barcode Labels and Barcode hardware in the Philippines market. DTM has invested on advance printing technology such as multi-color flexography, Roto interletter press and CTP machines.

Konica Minolta showcases state of the art production printing solutions Konica Minolta showcases its future ready production printing line-up in major cities of India. Konica Minolta Business Solutions, a global provider of advanced imaging and networking technologies showcased its state of the art production printing solutions across major urban centres including Cochin, Delhi, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad and Mumbai. The customer meet received an overwhelming response from the attendees wherein more than 100 customers in each city were briefed about the benefits of Konica Minolta’s cutting edge production printing solutions. The aim of the customer meet was to strengthen customer connect across cities and to serve sheer requirements of the customers in the Production& Industrial Printing segment. The meet was based on the theme “Future of Printing” wherein Konica Minolta showcased its product line in the

Production Printing segment and is now gearing up to showcase its industrial presses in the upcoming customer meets. With the event KM shared their future growth path with the products and solutions. Konica Minolta India has successfully emerged as one stop solution provider for printing needs right from foil preparation to output delivery including Pre Press, Press & Post Press operations. Konica Minolta’s portfolio of Production Print solutions includes presses like; bizhub PRO 1100; MGI JETvarnish series; KIP 800 Colour Series; KIP 7170; KIP 770 and Accurio Press C2070/ C2060, Bizhub Press C1100/C1085 The company recently also participated in Print Expo, 2017 in Chennai showcasing numerous high-Potential digital presses like bizhub Press C1100/C1085, Accurio Press

C2070/ C2060, bizhub PRO 1100 & KIP 7170, wide format printing solution and the Web2Print solutions at the Expo. ‘’With India witnessing rapid changes in the industrial printing segment, the need for cutting edge digital printing solutions is at an all time high to stay in the competition. Our solutions come as a reflection of our commitment to set new standards in this lucrative and demanding industry,’’ said Daisuke Mori, Managing Director Konica Minolta Business Solutions India. The five city customer meet was flagged off from Cochin and has been organised in Delhi, Hyderabad, and Ahmedabad and was recently held in Mumbai where Konica Minolta focused on reinforcing the success of its previous customer meet by bringing the best of solutions.

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ContiTech at LabelExpo: Comprehensive print solutions for labels and packaging Offers high-performance portfolio for the label and packaging industry with three proven brands – Conti Laserline, Conti-Air and Phoenix Xtra Blankets. ContiTech showcased current highlights from its three brands at its booth (hall 11, booth B51) at the LabelExpo international trade show in Brussels (September 25–28). ContiTech offered a high-performance portfolio for the label and packaging industry with its three proven brands – Conti Laserline, Conti-Air and Phoenix Xtra Blankets. Irrespective of whether flexo printing plates, sleeves or printing blankets are being used, the technology company has the appropriate solution in its range for almost every kind of label printing operation.

In addition to many other printing blankets, the company is also unveiling a self-adhesive version of its Ruby product under the brand name Phoenix Xtra Blankets. The flagship product in UV offset printing delivers top-quality results when printing on packaging materials, sheet metal and tubes.

“Innovations are right at the top of our list of priorities,” says Jens Löschner, the new head of the Flexoprinting product unit. He has been responsible for the Conti Laserline brand since April 2017, and this is the first trade show at which he has been in charge of presenting his product line. “As a former developer, I see great protential for new products in flexo printing,” says Löschner. “The field of printed electronics in particular will be a major issue for our product portfolio in the future.”

Products for every application ContiTech’s Laserline flexo printing plate brand has the whole packaging industry covered. “Thanks to

their resistance to swelling and low abrasion, all our printing plates are significantly more robust than many comparable products and therefore have very long service lives. The printing plates deliver firstclass print quality in the various application fields. Even extremely fine lines, high screen rulings and engraving resolutions of up to 5080 dpi are possible on any material. “Flexo printing is a key market for us. We therefore are demonstrating our expertise with our extensive product portfolio,” says Löschner. ContiTech presented the Conti Laserline CSX and CSC printing plates with their integral compressible layer at the show since these are excellently suited to flexible packaging materials and labels. Conti Laserline CSL and CAL are ideal for ink applications. Direct printing on corrugated cardboard is also possible; Conti Laserline CCX can be used for all the common corrugated types. Conti Laserline CML was specially developed for printing on tubes, cups and metals.

Printing blankets for the packaging industry ContiTech also unveiled its latest technical developments for high-end label and packaging printing. Both the classic, market-proven solutions and the further developments of the top faces are of

Key Notes : >

Versatile flexo printing plates impress with their first-class print quality.

> Robust and highly compressible printing blankets for packaging. > The Laserline flexo printing plate brand has the whole packaging industry covered.

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Quality test on a flexo printing plate engraved using a state-of-the-art fiber laser.

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interest to the printing industry in this regard. In addition to their chemical properties, such as resistance to swelling and outstanding ink laydown, even on demanding substrates, the printing blankets in particular feature long service lives and excellent abrasion resistance. “We consult regularly with machinery manufacturers to ensure the best possible response to current and future market trends,” says Conti-Air sales manager

Rodolfo Stephanus. “We were able to feed these close contacts and our many years of production technology know-how into the development of the self-adhesive printing blankets.” In addition to many other printing blankets, the company also unveiled a self-adhesive version of its Ruby product under the brand name Phoenix Xtra Blankets. The flagship

product in UV offset printing delivers topquality results when printing on packaging materials, sheet metal and tubes. “We have been impressing our customers for more than 20 years with this product,” says Tony Tilocca from Phoenix Xtra Blankets’ Technical Sales department. “And not just in the packaging industry.”

VINSAK confirms triple investment @ Label Expo Europe 2017 VINSAK confirmed sales of three Lombardi Synchroline press during the show. A number of orders for ABG finishing equipment were also received. Print equipment supplier VINSAK demonstrated the VINSAK USAR 330 (Universal Slitter Rewinder) at its Label Expo Europe 2017 stand. The machine was equipped with Inkjet system with UV Drying & 100% inspection system. Along with VINSAK, it allied principles i.e. Lombardi, ABG, Iwasaki, Pantec, Schober & Jet Europe also showcased their machines at the show. The solutions showcased included TR2 Intermittent offset press, Synchroline UV Flexo Press, RHINO 2 Hot Foil Embossing machine, Digicon series 3 short run label converting machine etc.

Mold-Tek Packaging invests in Synchroline 430 Flexo Press for IML Packaging Hyderabad based, Mold-Tek Packaging Limited (MTPL) is one of the leading names in rigid plastic packaging, inmold label decoration and is involved in the manufacturing of injection molded containers for lubes, paints, food and other products. MTPL introduced the concept of IML packaging in India & they are the first company to have completely integrated facilities ranging from Label printing and mold adaptations to make in-house robots. To strengthen IN-MOLD Packaging division, MTPL has invested in Synchroline 430 8-colours Fully servo UV Flexo press. The multi-substrate press is equipped with movable cold foil, chiller, two die-cutting stations, slitter, turn bar, relam, delam, sheeter, conveyor, and lamination. Mr. Janumahanti Lakshmana Rao- Chairman & Managing Director-MTPL said: “The main agenda behind purchasing Synchroline is to lower the prices of IN-MOLD label printing while complying with high-quality

international standards.” Mr. Lakshmana Rao-Deputy Director, MTPL added” The Flexo press will provide high-quality printing on In-MOLD Labels at a speed of 220m/ minute and this will help us to strengthen our capabilities of IML packaging division and deliver jobs on a record time”

Manipal International Printing Press invests in Lombardi Synchroline 530 Pritam Choudhary, managing director at Manipal Africa, said, “We are moving to a new city and have invested in 10000 sq. meters. Printing plant as our production capacity has increased by 50%. As of now, we are having three Flexo and two gravure machines producing 550000 linear meters a day. The new Lombardi Synchroline midweb Flexo press will be a perfect fit with our existing infrastructure and is meant to print short-run jobs of 10,000 linear meters and less. We will be installing it in our Nairobi plant,” Pritam Choudhary added, “This will be the first Synchroline in eastern Africa and after this, we will bring in a range of label finishing machines to accommodate our growing production requirements.”

Citrus Packaging invests in Lombardi Synchroline 330 Hyderabad based start-up CITRUS packaging have invested in Synchroline 330, an eight-colour UV press with the chill drum, rotary die-cutting, inline sheeting and the ability to print on substrate thickness of 12-500 micron. Mr. Chenga Reddy, CITRUS Packaging has said” I was working with Pragati offset from a long time. As one of the key partner, we have always focused on printing quality and delivering jobs on

time. Parting from the company was difficult but there is a huge space is in the printing industry to accommodate new players who can pitch to a range of customers. I was well versed with the business set up of Pragati offset and hoping to replicate it here. Mr. Reddy added” Apart from Synchroline, CITRUS has invested in VINSAK’s digital label printing and finishing solutions, To stay ahead of the competition we will be adding security and VDP label printing to our portfolio, multi-layer labels, short-run shrink sleeves.” Mr. Ranesh Bajaj, Director-VINSAK said “Overall it was a great exhibition for VINSAK and our partners. We have witnessed a record crowd this year. We would like to congratulate all three companies on the purchase of Synchroline presses. The machine is technologically sound and can print a range of substrates. It will help them to foray into newer packaging segment as well. Soon, we will install the machines at their plants: Mr. Ranesh Bajaj added, ”we are keen to bring machines which are of high quality, rich in feature & have more automated functions backed with our strong support system which can ease the operations of Printers & Converters.”

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Esko takes Packaging Simplified to a new level At Label Expo Esko demonstrates turnkey workflow solutions for fast start-up, increased automation, enhanced collaboration and more.

“With our new flexo platemaking solutions, we ensure that flexo printing maintains its prominent position and is ready for the business challenges of label and flexo converters today.” - Geert de Proost

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Demonstrates its ongoing investment in the labels & packaging market.

> WebCenter QuickStart for Labels and Automation Engine QuickStart for Labels. > Introduces XPS Crystal 4835 UV exposure unit & CDI Crystal 4835 imaging unit.

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Esko has expanded its portfolio and showcases a broad array of new and powerful flexo platemaking solutions at Labelexpo 2017: • WebCenter QuickStart for Labels and Automation Engine QuickStart for Labels - two new turnkey workflow solutions to streamline the entire process from order to production and facilitate simpler label production. • Automated flexo platemaking integrated into the Automation Engine prepress workflow; as Automation Engine customers look to expand capabilities, this option is available as an upgrade. • The introduction of the Esko XPS Crystal 4835 UV exposure unit and the Esko CDI Crystal 4835 imaging unit for narrow to mid-web flexo applications including flexible packaging.

Geert de Proost, Director Solutions Marketing states, “With our new flexo platemaking solutions, we ensure that flexo printing maintains its prominent position and is ready for the business challenges of label and flexo converters today.”

Award winning technologies bring clear advantages and address the needs of the industry for faster turnarounds and superior, consistent quality

Turnkey workflow bundles address essential tasks

Today, label converters are increasingly challenged. Shorter runs, shorter lead times, higher and more consistent print quality, and 100% regulatory compliance are a given. These parameters are driving ever-faster adoption of digital label technologies by label converters. The logical result is that more converters are recognizing the need to bring prepress in house. This is the only way to efficiently feed their digital presses, take time out of the production process, and gain greater control over the production of flexo plates. Esko offers solutions that remove the hurdles at each step of the workflow and automate as many repetitive tasks as possible, thus helping converters reduce waste, and improve the predictability and reliability of consistently superior quality plates. The daily challenge of workflow automation is the key. Shorter print run lengths and shortened delivery times require flexo plates to be ready faster within a reliable delivery window – this is the ultimate solution to ensure print production is not jeopardized by press downtime waiting for plates. To support this, Esko has taken the innovative approach of moving operational control further upstream to the prepress department by integrating the platemaking process with the prepress workflow.

This is accomplished by the introduction of Automation Engine Quick Start for Labels, a turnkey workflow solution for label converters that includes a subset of the full Automation Engine capabilities, enabling implementation of a proven automated workflow in just 1 week. In addition, the full Automation Engine solution now includes a platemaking module that enables control of the platemaking process from prepress, further streamlining the label production process while reducing labour requirements and plate waste.

Automation Engine QuickStart for Labels is an out-of-the-box pre-configured workflow bundle that addresses the majority of the essential prepress tasks for labels, no matter what printing technology is used – digital (toner & inkjet), flexo, offset or gravure.

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It is the ideal solution for label converters that want to start prepress automation without the need for an extensive implementation process or in-house workflow specialists. It includes tasks such as preflighting, adding and checking barcodes and content, trapping, step-and-repeat, marks and control strips as well as automated reports.

on interactive and time-consuming tasks, but it virtually eliminates errors in the platemaking process and speeds time to press. Most importantly, this automated platemaking workflow enables converting operations to better meet growing customer demand for higher quality and shorter cycle times, increasing customer service levels.

Another new turnkey solution, WebCenter QuickStart for Labels, controls the management of data within the system and fully digitizes and streamlines communication and collaboration from project briefing to the production floor. With full automation and visibility, it allows users to follow the audit trail of existing printed and digital assets, speeding the approval cycle with a built-in graphic viewer for both 2D and 3D assets. Work in progress, status and device queues are monitored and presented visually in an easy-to-understand browser-based dashboard.

Platemaking - cutting the number of manual handling steps from 5 to 1

Automation Engine Now Manages Flexo Platemaking Automation Engine enables a fully-automated platemaking workflow, from RIPped files all the way to the exposed plate on the CDI Crystal XPS, without operator intervention. With Device Manager, anyone that needs to know what the status of a job is in the device queue can do this from the comfort of their desks, eliminating the need to check on progress at the device itself. Jobs can quickly and easily be placed in queues, and queues can be modified as needed. This automation not only saves valuable operator time, minimizing the need for them to spend time

The new and award-winning Esko XPS Crystal technology is a digitally controlled UV LED exposure device that provides near simultaneous main and back exposure in a single operation. As part of a complete automated platemaking system linking to a CDI imaging unit, the new XPS Crystal 4835 delivers a superior flexo plate for the narrow web market, capable of imaging at the highest quality levels. The plates are placed onto the glass surface, where accurate back and main exposures by patented LED UV light technology allow precise control with no further operator intervention. The consistent light source delivers unmatched image consistency and perfectly formed dots.

Innovation Award for PrePress Graphics, but also received the respected Printing Industries of America (PIA) InterTech Technology Award. Furthermore it was also recognized with a Red Dot award for Product Design 2017 organized by Design Zentrum Nordrhein Westfalen in Germany.

Shining performance from Crystal technology Thomas concludes, “Our Crystal technology is being welcomed around the world. First customer installs reflect excellent performance with exceptional print results. With the introduction of our new XPS Crystal 4835 UV LED exposure unit and CDI Crystal 4835 imaging unit together with our latest turnkey workflows dedicated to label production, we continue to address the needs of the packaging and label community. With our 30 years of packaging and label industry experience and development, we continue to lead the way.

Pascal Thomas, Director Flexo Business, says, “One of the primary factors influencing plate stability is fast UV exposure that holds the finest lines and text onto the plate. Full automation is achieved by linking the XPS to the CDI and thus reducing the process from five manual steps to just one.”Earlier this year, Esko’s innovative Crystal technology not only was recognized with the prestigious Flexographic Technical Association (FTA)

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BOBST M1 and M5X inline flexo presses now offer even more The M1 and M5X inline flexo presses demonstrated on the BOBST stand at Labelexpo Europe 2017, are the latest configurations of the existing presses.

A host of accessories allows flexibility for multiple press configurations to suit all label printers’ production requirements. These include the Ready cart for fast interchangeability of flexo, screen and hot foil heads; and the Snowball and Bambi systems for high speed waste stripping of PS labels of any type.

Key Notes : >

M1 - sustainable operation, fast return on the investment and TCO.

> Semi-automatic preregister setting with LaserSet system & automatic register control with Print Tutor. > M5 brings the benefits of advanced technology production line within the reach of a wider number of printing and converting companies.

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The best Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) delivered by the M1 has sealed the success of the line, which over the years has established a solid reputation as “the” press for label converters searching for repeatable high print quality, operational efficiency and flexibility in press configuration so as to handle a great variety of label applications and substrates.

have succeeded in engineering an optimized fixed configuration line that encompass the technologies and performance of the M5 in terms of output quality and press efficiency, albeit featuring a limited number of options. This has enabled us to optimize two other aspects of the M5X line: the delivery time and the level of investment.”

“The latest M1 configuration with mechanical line shaft and technical upgrades will further enhance the press’ advantages in terms of sustainable operation, fast return on the investment and TCO,” explained Matteo Cardinotti, Managing Director of Bobst Firenze and Head of Narrow & mid-web multi-process Product Line.

Available in 370 and 430 mm web widths, the M5X is a full servo press whose capability to handle all types of substrates, from self-adhesive stock through to glossy paper, unsupported film, aluminum foil, laminated tubes and light cardboard up to 350 gsm, makes it suitable for labels and packaging production. This also makes it ideal for companies that look ahead to the opportunities of entering different business segments and differentiating their production.

The LaserSet system provides semi-automatic pre-register setting, and with the Print Tutor high definition digital camera-based system now also available on the M1, the machine affords automatic register control. Continual reading of register marks by the Print Tutor cameras installed on every print unit ensures consistent print quality during production. This, combined with the rapidity of the register correction at speed variations, enables the new M1 to deliver improved performance in waste cutting and overall press efficiency. Just like the original M1, the latest M1 features an open architecture providing ease of access to the Flower print unit. A host of accessories allows flexibility for multiple press configurations to suit all label printers’ production requirements, even for the most complex labels and label shapes. These include the Ready cart for fast interchangeability of flexo, screen and hot foil heads; and the Snowball and Bambi systems for high speed waste stripping of PS labels of any type. “In the case of the M5X, the focus has not been on specific technology updates but on the willingness to bring the benefits of the M5 advanced technology production line within the reach of a wider number of printing and converting companies,” said Matteo Cardinotti. “We

Options include the use of the REVO 7-colour Extended Color Gamut process, and Digital Flexo automation for the automated pre-register and adjustment of the print pressure and register during production. “The M1 and the M5X exemplify how we continue to move forward in our commitment not only to innovation, but also to ensure that with the solutions we offer, whatever the level of investment, our clients can achieve the optimum balance between quality and economy that enables them to meet their clients’ requirements whilst ensuring a steady growth for their company.”

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New MicroTip enhancement on display at Labelexpo Europe 2017 (stand 7B20) Flexo Concepts introduced a new refinement to its doctor blade MicroTip technology at Labelexpo Europe 2017. The modification to the MicroTip design doubles the tip’s stiffness at the contact point to further enhance metering precision on high line screen anilox rolls. An improvement to the manufacturing process also produces a smoother contact edge, eliminating start-up lines, an issue sometimes faced by nonmetallic doctor blade users. Lab and field testing has yielded positive results and the company is excited to share its latest doctor blade innovation with the European label printing market. Since its release to the market in 2013, TruPoint Orange polymer doctor blade with a MicroTip has been endorsed by numerous press manufacturers and is currently shipping as the standard blade on many new machine installations. At Labelexpo, Orange featured on equipment by AB Graphic, Cartes, Domino, Edale, Focus, Werosys and others.

Flexo Concepts and partners feature Liqueur Label and Tasting Flexo Concepts and fellow flexo suppliers banded together once again to showcase their latest product advancements at Labelexpo Europe 2017. The project was a collaboration between Esko, Flexo Concepts, Harper, MacDermid, Siegwerk, Raflatac, Dirty Water Distillery and Clemson’s Sonoco Institute of Packaging.

exposed on Esko’s new Crystal XPS System, and VANISH label stock from Raflatac, the label was printed at the Sonoco Institute of Packaging on an OMET VaryFlex 530 press. Dirty Water Distillery provided bottles of their honey liqueur from their micro-distillery located in the heart of Flexo Concepts’ hometown, Plymouth, Massachusetts. This liqueur was handcrafted from the finest ingredients, local honey and a variety of spices, to provide a delicious cordial for visitors to taste at Labelexpo Europe.

Each supplier offered tastings of this exclusive “Bee Sting” honey liqueur at their Labelexpo stands while showcasing the label. Visitors could see the label and tried a sample at the following stands at the show: Esko-Stand 3C50; Flexo Concepts-Stand 7B20; Harper Corporation of America-Stand 7B21; MacDermid Graphics Solutions-Stand 5A17; Siegwerk Switzerland AG-Stand 6A17; UPM Raflatac-Stands 5E37 & 5D41.

This year, the group produced a unique bottle label featuring five-colour modified process printing, metallic ink, custom die lines and high-quality print. Utilizing UV Flexo L39-5 inks from Siegwerk, TruPoint Orange doctor blades from Flexo Concepts, a Konsberg digital cutter from Esko, 1200-line screen aniloxes from Harper, Digital Rave printing plates from MacDermid

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HP at Labelexpo 2017: New opportunities to grow and innovate HP introduces breakthrough solutions to enable converters to digitally print any Label.

At Label Expo 2017, HP announced a new portfolio of solutions for digital printing and embellishment of labels in high quantity for diverse applications, in another move to transform labels and packaging printing from analogue to digital, enabling converters to profitably grow their businesses into new markets. HP also announced the HP Indigo GEM, the breakthrough one-pass digital embellishments solution, is now available for pre-ordering at Label Expo. Integrated with the HP Indigo WS6800 Digital Press, the GEM produces highly decorated labels simply and efficiently.

At Labelexpo 2017 from September 25-28, HP demonstrated all its new capabilities, including the HP Indigo WS6800 Digital Press integrated with the HP Indigo GEM, HP Indigo 20000 Digital Press with HP Indigo Pack Ready Lamination for flexible packaging production enabling immediate time to market, and the HP Indigo 8000 Digital Press, one of the most productive narrow-web presses in the industry. In a store-environment experience, HP Specialty Printing Systems (SPS) OEM partners demonstrated solutions based on the new SI-1300desktop labeling print engine and other technology.

Any label for any job, printed digitally The new solutions come only 15 months after the extensive drupa 2016 technology rollout. Customers are already benefitting from these new capabilities in colour accuracy and consistency, higher productivity, and a widened range of applications.

HP Indigo 8000 installations growing to support high-volume printing of any label; strong Series 4 format momentum with sale of the 100th HP Indigo 20000 and 50th HP Indigo 30000; and new HP Indigo ElectroInk Silver starts beta testing.

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HP Indigo GEM, the first fully digital, onepass embellishment solution.

> HP Production Pro for Indigo Labels and Packaging –a five times faster and more powerful DFE. > PrintOS features and apps optimized for labels and packaging, to accelerate the adoption of digital.

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“Our LEP technology unveiled at drupa last year was a leap forward, and fully launched to customers. The innovation now continues, as we expand our capabilities and bring the industry’s most powerful digital label printing solutions that will help converters double their digital business over the next few years,” said Alon Bar-Shany, general manager, HP Indigo, HP Inc.“With these solutions converters can streamline and reinvent the production floor and print any label, no matter the complexity, to successfully help meet new market demands.”

Inline with the HP Indigo WS6800, the HP Indigo GEM is a fully digital one-pass printing press for embellishing with foil, screen, tactile, varnish and other special effects, using one workflow, one operator, and one design file without the need for tooling. The HP Indigo GEM utilizes GEM Coat and GEM Clear, sold by HP Indigo. Developed with JetFX, shipping of the GEM is expected to begin in the spring of 2018.

New opportunities with high-resistance labels Pack Ready for Labels is a new solution supporting the production of high performance, high-resistance labels to help meet the industry’s highest standards, including for household and chemical products. It

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includes an upgraded Inline Priming Unit as an option on the HP Indigo WS6800 Digital Press and supplies including varnish and primer that will be sold by Michelman. The new Inline Priming Unit also delivers enhanced press utilization, and better serviceability.

Innovation in inks HP Indigo also announced a new HP Indigo ElectroInk Silver, now in beta customer testing. The new ink formula is capable of generating a wide gamut of metallic colours, combining metallic effects with digital capabilities in one printing process. The new ink is set to expand the application capabilities enabled by HP Indigo’s technology, and open a new field of package design opportunities for converters and brands to stand out on the shelf.

New tools for workflow and automation The HP Indigo WS6800 together with the HP Indigo GEM was powered by the new HP Production Pro for Indigo Labels and Packaging. With five times faster processing, HP Production Pro delivers higher productivity, scalability and simplicity for any job, including handling large volumes of variable data printing. HP Production Pro enables converters for the first time to scale their business, and centrally manage fleets of HP Indigo label presses, while connecting the press to automation tools including HP PrintOS, MIS systems and

the Esko Automation Engine QuickStart for Labels. Also announced today, HP Indigo and Esko are beginning an enhanced cooperation following a successful 10-year relationship. HP and Esko have incorporated the Esko Color Engine into HP Production Pro and are extending the cooperation to resell the new Esko Automation Engine QuickStart for Labels, an entry-level solution that optimizes printing and allows converters to ramp up prepress productivity in a simple and costeffective manner. HP PrintOS new applications and features for labels and packaging released at Labelexpo include: • PrintOS Jobs, for production monitoring and jobs’ tracking • PrintOS Site Flow, for production of high-volume of short runs and personalized labeling • PrintOS Box, a file exchange which simplifies print file receipt and content validation • PrintOS Service Center, a single point of access to all service tools

HP labels and packaging momentum With more than 1500 labels and packaging presses installed worldwide, HP is among the top enabling industry’s transformation. The

latest installation of an HP Indigo 8000 Digital Press for labels at Belmark underscores the move by converters toward fully digital production. HP also announced the sale of the 100th HP Indigo 20000Digital Press for flexible packaging. The 50th HP Indigo 30000 for folding cartons was recently installed at Cartoffset in France. Brands around the world are enjoying the benefits of HP Indigo customer’s capabilities: • Eat the Bear. US converter Toflight produced a Digital Excellence Award winning label for the launch of Eat the Bear’s Cinco de Mayo special flavour. The label was printed on metalized polypropylene substrate with matt and gloss varnish, causing maximum shelfappeal. • Tang. In a campaign that connects family moments with the flavoured drink, Tang printed flexible packages featuring 110 different family photos submitted by customers on a total of 15 million sachets of 5 different flavours, using Camargo Cia de Embalagens’ HP Indigo 20000. • Romantics, a brand of fresh juices and vegetables drinks with 140 different and frequently changing designs, each with a different story, picture and creative message, is benefitting from exact runlengths and value for on-time delivery.

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Global Graphics extends relationship with HP Indigo Harlequin RIP engine chosen inside HP Production Pro for Indigo Labels & Packaging presses. Global Graphics, developer of platforms for digital printing including the Harlequin RIP, has announced that it has extended its relationship with HP Indigo to include the HP Indigo range of labels and packaging presses. The Harlequin RIP has been chosen as the RIP engine inside the HP Production Pro for Indigo Labels & Packaging. This is the new HP digital front end (DFE) designed to drive all HP Indigo digital labels and packaging presses. The HP Indigo WS6800 will be the first press that comes optionally equipped with the HP Production Pro and this will later be extended to the HP Indigo 8000, the HP Indigo 20000 and the HP Indigo 30000 presses. These presses produce labels, folding cartons, flexible packaging and shrink sleeves, and require a powerful digital front end to produce the performance and versatility that converters print shops need, especially as more and more variability is used in this sector. The Harlequin RIP already provides the RIPping power for the DFE that is used across the entire HP Indigo commercial press range. These presses, known for their exceptional “digital offset” quality and high productivity, are used for a wide variety of applications such as photobooks, direct marketing and publishing. Gary Fry, Global Graphics’ CEO comments, “We enjoy a longstanding relationship with HP Indigo. We are delighted that the Harlequin RIP, as well as our partnership approach to engineering and support, has so

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impressed HP Indigo in the commercial print space that they are now expanding its use into their labels and packaging presses.”

basic configuration to increase RIP capacity even further and control multiple presses from a single server.

Roy Faigenbloom, HP Indigo product manager says, “Global Graphics technology is proven in the field. We have thousands of customers today whose commercial presses use the Harlequin-based HP Production Pro. Harlequin offers the needed processing power to drive labels and packaging workflows and Global Graphics has proved itself to be a very responsive technology partner.”

Global Graphics first announced its partnership with HP to provide printing software for HP Indigo print servers in 2002 with the introduction of the HP Production Pro. The two companies’ collaboration was expanded again in 2004 when Global Graphics partnered with HP to provide the Harlequin RIP as the standard on-board RIP that shipped with every HP Indigo 5000 digital press. At IPEX 2010 a new agreement was signed to provide Harlequin for the DFEs that drive all HP Indigo commercial presses and IHPS devices (HP PageWide Industrial).

Global Graphics and HP Indigo have collaborated to ensure that converters who install a new press alongside an existing model will be able to match the weight of output, regardless of their pre-existing HP solution, an important factor for regulated markets. They will also be able to achieve the same colour, including emulated brand colours, while benefiting from the speed advantages that the Harlequin RIP brings. HP Production Pro is built on the fieldproven foundations of Production Pro with the Harlequin RIP, Esko Color Engine, and PrintOS cloud connectivity. The Production Pro provides a single point of control to the press operator to streamline and manage the print workflow. It allows extra performance to be added to HP Indigo digital presses when required because it offers a unique capability of scaling up the RIP hardware up to 8x the

The Harlequin RIP is known for its highperformance and reliability, notably in production intensive environments. It is the industry benchmark for speed even as workflows become more complex, carrying larger amounts of data than ever before. While the use of variable data is still a relatively small proportion of label and packaging print it is expected to grow and Harlequin’s feature for processing these files – Harlequin VariData – will ensure that print jobs continue to be RIPped at speed. Global Graphics was present at the Label Expo stand 9B17.

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A focus on Fixed Colour Palette printing: The future of flexography Asahi Photoproducts (stand 5A34) brings innovation, education to Labelexpo Europe 2017. Asahi Photoproducts, a pioneer in flexographic photopolymer plate development, showcased its AWP waterwashable flexographic plate solutions featuring Pinning Technology for Clean Transfer at Labelexpo Europe 2017. “Labelexpo Europe is always a highlight in our show schedule,” states Akihiro Kato, Managing Director of Asahi Photoproducts Europe. “That is especially true this year as interest in higher quality and more efficient production of labels and packaging is heating up across Europe. At the show, our experts were on hand to help visitors better understand how Asahi AWP plates can improve OEE and profitability without any compromise in quality. Visitors to our stand saw printed application examples and got advice from our experts about the best plates for their individual needs.” Asahi experts also spoke with visitors about fixed colour palette printing, which uses a fixed palette of up to seven inks to virtually eliminate the need for spot colour inks. Because it uses a fixed set of inks, there is no wash-up required between jobs, and combo jobs are made easier. Asahi plates with Pinning Technology for Clean Transfer deliver the precise plate-to-plate register required to implement this printing process successfully. “In our opinion,” adds Mr. Kato “this is the future of flexography, especially for flexible packaging, and favourably positions flexography to compete with digital printing for all but the very shortest runs.” New at Labelexpo from Asahi Photoproducts was the AWP-DEW plate solution, incorporating the renowned quality properties of AWP-DEF plates with the addition of a faster plate processing speed, making this plate ideal for labels and packaging

operations with higher plate throughput looking to achieve significant quality and OEE benefits.

Voice of the Customer “Converters looking to move away from gravure and offset are truly surprised by what AWP can achieve,” according to Matt Francklow, Managing Director, Creation Reprographics. “We pioneered the Asahi AWP water washable plates technology in the UK from the outset. The plate delivers outstanding performance compared to other photopolymer plates on the market; … the number of repeat clients we now have on board all utilising the technology proves that its exceptional print accuracy and quality is appreciated.” Another satisfied Asahi customer is Colognia Press, a Czech-based label converter, who needed to find a way to improve OEE. “With the flexo plates we were using, we had excessive stop times to clean or replace plates,” says Bohdan Holona, Manager of Desktop Publishing. “For long-run jobs, this meant half of the time to produce the job was downtime. And even for shorter runs, we were not happy with the consistency from beginning to end of the job, often requiring press stops to clean plates or otherwise adjust quality.” After looking at several alternate solutions, Holona reports

the company chose to implement the Asahi AWP platemaking system. “Now,” he says, “We can run a full 10 kilometre job without stopping. We even ran a 22-hour job with one set of plates, no stops, and very consistent quality from beginning to end. It’s been amazing!”

Pinning Technology for Clean Transfer A feature of many of Asahi’s flexographic printing plates, Pinning Technology for Clean Transfer enables a clean ink transfer and prevents ink accumulating on the plate surfaces and shoulders in screen areas. This leads to fewer cleaning intervals and reduced press downtime, as well as significant quality improvements. Precise plate register achieved with Asahi plates ensures very high quality process printing with a fixed colour palette, minimizing the need to use and manage spot colour inks. Pinning Technology for Clean Transfer allows a kiss-touch printing pressure setting. It makes use of low plate surface tension, made possible by a specially engineered Asahi polymer chemistry, to inhibit liquid flow. The ink forms a globule, with a large contact angle and high pinning point. This results in a cleaner and more homogeneous ink transfer from plate to substrate, helping flexographic printers meet the ever-increasing quality demands of their customers.

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Pulse Roll Label products verified by RIT for overprint varnishes Narrow web ink and varnish specialist Pulse Roll Label Products has received verification for two of its core UV flexo overprint varnishes (OPV) by the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) as part of the HP Overprint Varnish Performance Program. The company’s best-selling OPV products for the digital narrow web label printing sector include a UV flexo gloss and matt varnish, both formulated with the high resistance properties required for use over digital

inks which are suitable for overprinting on HP Indigo and other digital label printing presses. The verified products, IV044 gloss varnish and IV047 matt varnish, are already well established in the market and offer high adhesion, low shrinkage, high heat resistance, and unparalleled chemical resistance. However it is only recently that they have been tested and independently evaluated at the RIT under the HP OPV

programme. Mikaela Harding, Product Manager, Pulse Roll Label Products said, “We are delighted that our market leading matt and gloss overprintable varnishes have been verified by a globally recognised programme for best performance in terms of peeling and adhesion, solvent resistance and optical tests. These independent results prove exactly why these products are so popular with digital label printers around the world!” RIT’s HP Indigo Overprint Varnish Performance Program enables manufacturers, suppliers and HP Indigo digital press owners to have both waterbased and UV coatings evaluated. The OPV Performance procedure incorporates several tests in accordance with the stated protective uses for the coatings. Visitors to Labelexpo Europe 2017 can see these products used on ABG International’s Digicon finishing equipment demonstrated on its stand and on the HP stand in the PATIO area. Pulse Roll Label Products will be exhibiting at Labelexpo 2017.

IEEC brings latest corona treater to Labelexpo(stand 7A22) IEEC displayed its latest model of corona treater for the narrow web segment at Labelexpo Europe. IEEC integrated 4.5in colour HMI on treating station for ease of operation and control. Pullout cartridge of ceramic electrode is designed for web threading and easy maintenance which reduces the downtime of machine. The

compact design of treating station allows it to mount in a limited space on any narrow web press. IEEC corona treatment systems are CE marked confirming to the American and European safety standards. The company was awarded the India Design Mark award from the Government of India for best design category of narrow web treater.

Multitec launches S2 label press (stand 5C10) Faridabad based Indian machine manufacturer Multitech Aids, exhibiting at the recent Label Expo Europe 2017, launched the S2 label printing press at the show. The machine features newly developed sleeve concept which means the print cylinder has been converted into a metal sleeve with side bearers. The self sufficient sleeve does not need an air mandrel to be mounted. The metal sleeve is more rugged than the conventional sleeve and doesn’t also feature the notch system for locking,

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prone to damage. The metal sleeve can be produced by any print cylinder manufacturer. In addition, it has direct servo drives on both print sleeve as well as impression cylinder of each print unit. Ecoflex VSi ELS and Ecosmart are two new presses from Multitech. Ecoflex VSi ELS is a full servo version of the Ecoflex VSi with metal sleeve/cylinder concept while Ecosmart is suitable for PS labels and light cartons. The modern narrow web flexo press have all print

units servo controlled. With servo infeed, open access, quick-change print cylinders and short web path UV configuration, users are assured of fine print quality with minimum wastage. Zero-breakLite matrix stripping ensures that the most complicated die cut shapes can be produced at high speeds.

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Edale launches the EFX Print Bar at Label Expo The EFX Print Bar can be part of a total Edale solution or retrofitted to any existing web press up to 560mm wide. At Label Expo 2017, Edale showcased the new EFX Print Bar, a digital solution for added value embellishment of labels and packaging. Using the EFX Print Bar offers 4 different digital embellishment solutions being: EFX DF (Digital foil), EFX DW (Digital white), EFX HB (High build Varnish and EFX PR (Digital peal and read). EFX DF is a digital foils and varnish solution that produces highly detailed and tactile foil effects and achieves results not yet seen with conventional cold foiling. EFX DW is a digital alternative to traditional opaque white screen printing. Matching both tactile effect and opacity, the EFX DW has the added benefit of eliminating the need to produce or replace costly rotary screens. EFX HB is a High Build Varnish System a digital alternative to traditional screen print embellishment for printing a range of textured effects on labels and folding cartons. Such high-build, textured/tactile effects can be

used to significantly enhance the shelf appeal of products and ensure that they stand out when on display. Combining the EFX HB Varnish system with Edale’s foiling system expands the capability to produce Digi-Foil. EFX PR is a digital solution for the manufacture of peel and reveal labels. The EFX PR can print black or grey text directly on to the adhesive, thus eliminating the need for flexo plates. Digitalising the peel and reveal process significantly reduces setup times and enables variable data to be included with the booklet. Lee Deyes, Technical Specialist Hybrid Print for Edale, comments, “Following extensive market trials we are excited to launch a new range of digital embellishment solutions to the Labels and Packaging industry. This digital embellishment technology will reduce set up times and because they are digital they can print variable data so every image can be unique. I am confident with our

solutions and with the imagination of our customers this will take label and packaging enhancements to an unsurpassed level’. The EFX Print Bar on the company’s stand at Label Expo 2017 was integrated onto the Edale FL3 Graphium.

New sustainable materials from Avery Dennison Avery Dennison (stand 5A31) introduced a number of significant innovations designed to drive sustainable growth at Labelexpo Europe 2017. The exhibition stand featured five interactive zones, focusing on the key benefits of enhanced shelf appeal, performance, sustainability, intelligent solutions and compliance and services. Avery Dennison demonstrated its latest solutions including MC FSC recycled paper facestock, Sensorial Collection of textured label materials and Clear Hotmelt adhesive for chilled food labels. Thanks to a careful selection from postconsumer waste streams and modern paper manufacturing processes, MC FSC Recycled facestock enables label converters to help customers meet sustainability targets while still

delivering exceptional print results. Offering similar whiteness, brightness and opacity to conventional facestock, it converts fast and is manufactured without chlorine bleaching. An attractive label is part of a consumer’s impression of a bottle and its contents. But communicating brand values properly means going further. How does the label feel? What sound does it make when touched? Is there a hint of a scent? The Avery Dennison Sensorial Collection gives designers a broad toolset to create soft, textured or patterned papers that give a premium, vintage or artisanal feel. These diverse label surfaces can give consumers subtle messages about the bottle’s contents while still delivering an outstanding visual impact.

both the tack and application temperature of a conventional hot melt adhesive without the yellowing. Offering a straightforward and competitive solution for a “no label” look for chilled foods, the S2045C adhesive also delivers a lower total applied cost as it does not require a barrier-film facestock.

The shelf appeal of chilled food applications has been limited when using clear films, largely due to the inherent ‘yellowing’ effect of hotmelt adhesives. The ultra-clear, nonyellowing S2405C hotmelt adhesive offers

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Cosmo Films showcases speciality PSA labeling films (stand 3C70) Cosmo Films, global provider of films for packaging, labeling and lamination applications showcased its speciality PSA labelling products at the recent four days long Labelexpo Europe beginning 25th September 2017 at Brussels Expo, Belgium. The speciality portfolio included specialized films for PS self-adhesive labelling as well as direct thermal printable top coated films and universal printable synthetic paper for labelling applications. The products highlighted include:

Universal Printable Coated BOPP Label Facestock Films: These films which go in for label facestock applications are available in transparent, white and metalized varieties (both coated and uncoated options). The films are compatible with UV, water based and solvent based ink systems and deliver spectacular print performance across wide variety of printing processes which include flexography, gravure, letterpress, offset, screen, thermal transfer and HP Indigo digital. The films also offer high stiffness for conversion and dispensing.

Label over Lamination Films: Standard over Lamination Films• Gloss and Matte- The Company offers both transparent gloss and matte films for over laminating PS labels for print protection. Premium Label over Lamination Films • Velvet Film- Engineered on a special matte base, the film is used for over lamination of labels. This film offers rich velvet finish to the printed labels. • Scuff Free Matte Film- This over lamination film for labels provides excellent scuff/ scratch resistance which could develop during transportation and handling of the pack. • Black Velvet Films- Recently launched black velvet film offers an intense black colour along with a velvet touch to the package thereby enhancing overall aesthetics.

Direct Thermal Printable films: The Company’s just launched top coated direct thermal printable film which goes in for all information, track & trace labelling

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applications. The product is water and solvent resistant, has matte paper like appearance and can endure temperature range of -20 to 70 degrees. The product is available in 60/75/87/100 microns. A high temperature variety which can endure temperatures of -20 to 130 degrees has also been launched. This variety is mainly used for carcass tagging and deep freeze labelling. Economic non top coated variety is also available.

Universal Printable Synthetic Paper: It is a white opaque polypropylene based film which resembles paper in appearance. The film is printable with most available printing technologies which include wet & UV offset, wet & UV flexo, letterpress, screen, thermal transfer and most of the digital toner technologies. It is a replacement of paper in applications where durability and longevity is desired. It is non-tearable, has moisture & chemical resistance and excellent lay flatness. The versatility of synthetic paper is reflected in the vast number of applications where it can be used which includes labeling

in retail environment, outdoors as well. The product is available both in sheet and rolls format from 75 to 430 microns.

United Specialty Inks presents label inks (stand3E62) Indian Ink manufacturing veteran, United Inks displayed its latest range of inks for the label industry at the Label Expo Europe. The displayed products included UV flexo opaque white, jet black, specialty and security solutions in inks. The company focused on speciality inks and security inks. Also on display were scented inks, temperature sensitive inks, UV and acqua chromic inks, invisible inks, resins and varnishes.

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Diehard Dies showcases flexible dies (stand7A46)

Diehard Dies, established in 2007 is a subsidiary of Tulasi Group of companies and manufacturers all kind of dies for the printing, packaging and label industry. Sophisticated machinery and qualified technicians produce solutions for Rotary, Flat and all other Dies including flexible dies for the printing, packaging, envelope and label industry. Exhibiting for the third time at Label Expo, the company this time displayed a range of premium flexible dies, laser hardened flexible dies, brass and magnesium embossing blocks, rotary dies and foiling blocks, among others.

Garware Polyester showcases range of PET films (stand 3E70)

Garware Polyester showcased a range of PET films at Label Expo. The range of products by Garware include In-mold label materials, Pressure-sensitive films, Release liners, Shrink/stretch films, Silicone release coatings, Sleeve systems, and Wraparound films etc. for . a wide range of flexible packaging and Label applications. Visitors saw a range of PET high shrink films with features like optical brightener and UV inhibitor etc.

SMI Coated Products launches SMI Clarity (stand11A27) 2017 offered a wide range of label stocks for Indian as well as international markets. The company launched two new products at the Brussels Expo. SMI Clarity is a Clear on Clear and the other launch is a peelable label stock for wet wipes. The Clear on Clear uses HM adhesive while, using a hot melt adhesive, SMI Clarity enables printers produce high clarity labels for application on a wide variety of substrates.

Indian label stock manufacturer SMI Coated Products, participating at Labelexpo Europe

SMI claims that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the first Indian manufacturer to have introduced a label stock solution for the wet wipes market. SMI 46300Y is a UV curable adhesive specially designed for wet wipes application.

Monotech Systems information booth at Label Expo (stand 9A42)

Monotech Systems had an information booth at the Label Expo Europe. The company promoted its range of products through print samples, brochures and interactive session with visitors. The key highlight remained its recently launched ColorNovo UV Inkjet label production press. Other products highlighted from its wide range included variable data printing solutions, VSRI machine, slitter rewinder, inspection system, UV Inkjet and

hybrid press, track and trace workflow and other security printing solutions. Monotech has also tied up with Grafisk Maskinfabrik (GM) Denmark for their full colour digital label production press. As per the association GM will be providing very high quality converting line for labels which will be integrated with ColorNovo UV Inkjet by Monotech.

Globus International Coaters presents release liners (stand4 A38) Globus International, manufacturer of silicone coated release liners based in Khopoli near Mumbai, exhibited its range of release liner products at the Label Expo. It showcased Fluoro liner, HDPE, LDPE, non silicone coated liners and temperature resistant liners.

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TCPL installs KBA special press Indian packaging printing major again puts KBA Rapida 106 into operation.

A total of six Rapida 106 high-performance presses are in operation at TCPL – two each at Haridwar, Silvassa and Guwahati. The seventh is expected to arrive shortly.

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Second long special press.

> Six Rapida sheetfed offset presses at three locations in production. > High level of satisfaction with automation and productivity.

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At the drupa, TCPL Packaging, one of the largest packaging printing companies in India, ordered three Rapida 106 presses from KBA-Sheetfed. One of them already started its journey to the TCPL Silvassa plant in autumn 2016. The second started production in the Guwahati plant at the end of August. This is a special press with six inking units, coating tower, two intermediate drying units, each with a further inking unit and coating tower, and a three-fold delivery extension. It has a UV function, pile logistics and has been set 450 mm higher for packaging production. Now a total of six Rapida 106 high-performance presses are in operation at TCPL – two at each of the locations Haridwar, Silvassa and Guwahati. A

seventh and thus the third from the drupa package is expected to arrive shortly.

Complex configurations The new Rapida 106 is already the company’s second with a very special configuration. In Haridwar, a long Rapida 106 with eight inking units, coating tower and extended delivery, as well as a cold foil module, has been in production for two years. It has additional packages for printing cardboard and foils, is equipped for UV/mixed operation and, among other things, is automated with pile logistics, a non-stop automatic function and FAPC plate changing.

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The six Rapida 106 presses at TCPL have a total of 50 printing and finishing units, including seven coating towers for conventional and UV production, a corona unit and many further details for high-quality inline finishing. They were all installed between 2012 and 2017. With this very modern and automated pool of presses, TCPL produces economically and offers top quality.

High level of customer satisfaction The most recent installations show that the management of TCPL is very satisfied with the automation and productivity of the Rapida presses as well as the service provided by the KBA sales partner Indo Polygraph Machinery. For medium-format sheetfed offset presses, TCPL invested exclusively in Rapida technology in the last few years.

The company was only established in 1990, and today employs a workforce of 1,200 employees. It has all of the standard certifications for quality management and the production of food packaging. In addition, TCPL produces a whole range of other packaging – through to cigarettes and premium packaging. Many of the products of TCPL have won international awards.

EPS at Pack Expo 2017 Launches advanced object printing machine with XAAR technology Xaar has announced the launch of the RotoJET, the latest advancement in cylindrical object inkjet printing from its company in the US, Engineered Printing Solutions (EPS). The launch will take place at Pack Expo 2017 (Las Vegas Convention Centre – September 25-27, 2017). The Roto-Jet from EPS, provider of product printing equipment, is a multi-colour, UV-LED, high-resolution printer that offers state-of-theart digital printing technology. Print reliability in the Roto-JET is assured with its use of the

Xaar 1003 printheads featuring Xaar’s unique TF Technology. Ink is recirculated within the printhead, directly past the back of the nozzle during drop ejection, at the highest flow rates in the industry. This ensures unrivalled reliability even in the harshest environments. The Roto-JET is designed specifically for decorating cylindrical objects in vertical mode – including those that are flat walled or tapered – and is therefore the ideal printer for companies producing promotional products, craft brewers, wineries and Ad Specialty

companies looking to offer their customers a short run option at high production rates. Xaar’s TF Technology is essential for printing in vertical mode, as it ensures the ink is in constant motion inside the printheads so that sedimentation and subsequent nozzle blocking when jetting is avoided. With average speeds of 800 parts per hour (pph), it features a synchronised printing and curing operation which prints full CMYKWW, with optional primer and varnish printheads available. Easy to load and unload, this new system can accommodate either manual or automatic operation. In addition, the ellipticalstyle race track conveyance and vertical design keeps the printer within a manageable footprint. “We are very excited about the launch of the Roto-JET at Pack Expo, which is in response to market demand,” comments Oscar Planas, Xaar’s Director of Global Marketing. “EPS chose the Xaar 1003 for its excellent overall performance and specifically because no other technology can match Xaar’s TF Technology when printing vertically. The combination of the EPS product printing expertise and Xaar technology in one solution provides a great return on investment for manufacturers in search of an object printing system.” Visitors will see the Roto-JET in action during Pack Expo at the EPS booth.

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Xaar is strengthening business in India Xaar strengthens Indian position with a wide portfolio of inkjet printheads and new technology for a variety of print applications. Xaar’s CEO, Doug Edwards confirmed that Xaar is strengthening its business in India with its wide portfolio of inkjet printheads and new technology for a variety of print applications. Edwards also outlined the importance of the Indian market to the company’s global goal to reach annual sales of £220m by 2020. Speaking at an event at the Hotel Narmada at the Trident, Gurgaon, Edwards gave an update on each of the four strategic pillars to Xaar’s2020 goal. “Our focus for the last two years has been to broaden our horizons into a wider range of print applications, all of which are of significant interest to our customers and partners in India. I am delighted to say that results from the first half of this year show that we are making good progress.” “Product revenues outside of Ceramics are growing by 60%; global sales into the Graphics sector grew by 33%, and we have also made good progress in our Packaging and Product Printing markets, where global sales jumped by 54%. We expect the Packaging and Product Printing area of the business to be about a third larger than Ceramics by the end of this year. In addition, we have seen an increase in our Asian business, which now makes up 47% of the company’s overall sales.”

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New High Laydown Technology for Indian Ceramics and Packaging markets Edwards announced that Xaar’s High Laydown (HL)Technology, initially launched in the Ceramics market, is now available for packaging customers, enabling raised effects to be added to substrates, transforming standard labels and folding cartons into high value packaging for products that can command a premium. In ceramics applications, High Laydown Technology allows effects such as gloss and adhesives to be applied with unprecedented laydown levels – for example, the Xaar 1003 C with HL Technology can achieve a laydown of up to 90 g/m2 at 35 m/min line speed. For labels and packaging, High Laydown Technology with UV varnish enables raised or tactile effects to be printed in single pass and with a single print bar – for example, the Xaar 1003 U with HL Technology can achieve a varnish film thickness of 80 microns at 25 m/ min line speed. Competitor offerings typically require multiple print bars or much lower line speed to achieve the same result.

Extended product range includes aqueous printheads In addition, the recent printhead launches from Xaar are starting to shift the company towards a broader reach. Of particular

interest to the Indian market are the Xaar 1201 and Xaar 5501, both of which are capable of handling aqueous inks. This means that OEMs looking to produce textiles or graphics printers using water-based inks now have access to robust and reliable technologies. Already making a significant impact in Asia, the Xaar 1201 is a Thin Film Piezo Silicon Micro Electrical Mechanical System (MEMS) technology printhead for printing Wideformat Graphics (WFG) and Textiles with dye sublimation, eco-solvent or aqueous inks. To complement the Xaar 1201, Xaar recently announced the Xaar 5501, which previewed in China a few months ago. This compact and lightweight printhead is the first product resulting from Xaar’s collaboration with Xerox, and delivers high print quality combined with low printing costs, whilst integration costs will also be kept to a minimum. For over 13 years, Xaar has been the only printhead manufacturer to have a direct and local presence in India, with its Indian regional office located in New Delhi. “We are very committed to supporting our customers and partners in India,” comments Doug Edwards. “Because we have a regional base in India, our customers and partners benefit from local technical expertise, a quick response and a printhead partner with amore in depth understanding of the Indian marketplace. Our focus is always on helping our customers get to market quickly with a range of products their own customers want and need. Having a local presence is the only way to serve our customers well.”

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7th Manipal Media Congress 2017

7th Manipal Media Congress 2017 is on 14th and 15th December 2017. Conference logo was released recently by Prof. Dr. Gopalakrishna Prabhu, Pro Vice Chancellor (Technology & Management) Manipal University and Director MIT, in the presence of Prof. Dr. BHV Pai, Joint Director, Mr. Sudheesh Rao, VP, R&D and Mr. Shashiranjan, VP & SBU Head, Manipal Technologies Ltd.

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Keeping in view today’s Printing industry’s developing into a multidisciplinary engineering and technology profession the conference provides a platform for the presentation of new advances and research results in the fields of Digital Media Science, Printing Technology and Management.

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Topics of interest for submission include, but not limited to the 4 conference tracks:

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Technological problems and sustainable solutions • Conventional printing processes • Volatile Organic Compounds and Environment • Consumables and raw materials • Storage and hazards • 3D Printing

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Basic and applied science fields for graphic technology Digital printing and imaging technology Colour reproduction and colour management Image reproduction quality Printed Electronics

Innovative trends in Packaging Technology Ergonomics and Design Smart Packaging Medication Packing Folding cartons Paper, Board and Plastics Barrier properties on packing substrates Logistics transport impact Material Science and Engineering

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Maintenance Management Production Planning and Control Product Workflow Just in time or Lean production Automation and its impact

Smart and innovative trends in Digital Media • • • • • • • • •

Advertising and Marketing trends Media in sustainable society Consumer perception and media use Social trends and their impact on media in India Graphical communication and visual design for electronic media Developing media communications and value added systems Online and mobile media development Cross-media publishing Virtual reality and augmented reality

Total Quality Management

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TCPL Packaging installs India’s 100th Kongsberg table 2nd machine goes to Silvassa as three packaging production plants there offer a considerable amount of new packaging development and innovation. TCPL Packaging has installed the Indian carton industry’s 100th Kongsberg – a Kongsberg X20 sample making table. TCPL Packaging is one of the two largest carton manufacturers in the country and the largest Indian carton maker to be publicly listed on the stock exchange. With six plants in four cities, TCPL has recently commissioned its first uniquely configured gravure press to enter the flexible packaging market. The new Kongsberg X20 machine is the same size as an older XL20 installed ten years ago which is still running perfectly. TCPL Packaging’s Managing Director Mr. Saket Kanoria points out that the first Kongsberg is still performing at its optimum at TCPL’s corporate and design office in Mumbai while the second sample maker was purchased for Silvassa simply because the three TCPL packaging production plants there offer a considerable amount of new packaging development and innovation. The Kongsberg X20 new series of upgradable cutting and creasing sample makers delivers a great deal of flexibility and adaptability with newer software and tool options, such as laser-like cutting of extremely delicate and intricate patterns. Mr. Kanoria places great emphasis on the reliability of the Kongsberg, saying, “Our

and new types of openings and closures, the die lines keep changing quite frequently and the new ideas must be turned into samples immediately to get customer feedback. “In fact, we have always had the Kongsberg in our corporate office where our design and prepress are also located. Our customers sometimes use it to try out some of their ideas. In short, the brand owners love the Kongsberg sample making table and they expect you as a carton maker to have it.

first table is ten years old, but it is still like new. Some consumables may have been purchased, but no major repair or maintenance issue has arisen in the last ten years, which is remarkable.” Talking about the performance of the sample maker and the role that it plays in the company, Mr. Kanoria says, “The folding carton industry is so dynamic that brand owners are continuously changing their packaging with marketing offers and formats. We also try to present new types of cartons to them with improvements or innovations. To keep improving the surface finishing, shapes

The biggest customer of course is our own marketing department.” TCPL was also one of the first carton makers to invest in Esko’s packaging design and prepress software as well as the Kongsberg sample making table. Mr. Winderam said, “The Konsgberg tables produce samples as close as possible to actual cartons. We have a huge selection of tools for cutting different materials as well. Adaptability in the hardware, and also in the software, for packaging design is an important part of the solution. Our users spend less time on the table and more in the prepress and design, which is why, apart from innovating on the table, we are constantly improving the features and integration of our software. We don’t really think of the table as a product. We think of the entire prepress design, prototyping and production as a solution where the table should not be a bottleneck.” At a small ceremony at the TCPL Packaging corporate office in Mumbai, Mr. John Winderam, GM, South & South East Asia representing Esko and X-Rite, presented Mr. Kanoria with a memento commemorating the company for installing the 100th Kongsberg in the country. Both Mr. Winderam and Mr. Kanoria agreed that although a reliable sample maker was an invaluable prototype device, the key is really the software and the workflow.

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PrintFair 2018 comes back to Hyderabad

After the success of the 2nd edition of PrintFair in Bengaluru, the PrintFair show has come back to Hyderabad from 9-12 March, 2018 at Hitex Exhibition Centre. This time, the show is occupying Hall 3A and 3B of the centre and is spread across 6000 sqm. This edition of PrintFair gets a further boost by the coming on board of Telengana Offset Printers Association - TOPA as co-organizers. After the formation of Telangana, the

Offset printers from different districts of the state have came together and formed the Telangana Offset Printers Association - TOPA. It strives to take the Printing and Packaging industry to greater heights in business development and customer satisfaction with the active cooperation and participation of all members. TOPA recently organized a conference in Hyderabad where more than 500 Printers attended the event. The Topic focused on the future of the Printing Industry in the country. They also celebrated Printers Day on 1st March, 2017 which hosted senior leaders of the state’s printing industry. “We are confident that PrintFair at Hyderabad will create the required awareness among our Micro, Small and Medium category printers. This show will showcase the latest

technological advances and production techniques in the Printing Industry and will help our members to grow their Business,”said C. Ravinder Reddy, President, TOPA. “Our main goal to change our name from Print-Packaging.com (P) Ltd to Next Events (P) Ltd was to adapt with the everchanging scope of the events we conduct and to “Catch the Next Wave”. With our collaboration with TOPA, we are hoping to bring a better experience to our exhibitors and visitors,” added Anil Arora, President, Next Events.

Chhabra family contributes 7 lakh towards Viren Chhabra Print Leadership Award Viren Chhabra Print Leadership Award was announced at the 236th GC meeting of AIFMP held on 24-25 June 2017 at Ananta Hotel & Resorts, Udaipur. The award has been instituted to pay a tribute to AIFMP member Shri Viren Chhabra commemorating his rich legacy, lifetime of support and accomplishments for AIFMP.

Prof Kamal Chopra, President, AIFMP comments, “Shri Viren Chhabra has contributed immensely to the printing industry. His contributions to AIFMP are exemplary. He is in real term a path maker for the AIFMP.” The award is given to a veteran who has contributed to the development and growth of the printing industry and welfare of printing fraternity. The person is selected for his exceptional achievement during his printing work span and other traits like expertise in the printing field. The award comprises Rs. 1 lakh cash award along with other memorabilia like citation, shawl and memento etc. The Chhabra family has contributed an amount of Rs. 7 lakh and expressed gratitude

Prof Kamal Chopra President, AIFMP receiving the cheque and letter of appreciation from Mrs Rami Chhabra.

for the award’s institution by AIFMP. Earlier, Mr. Vijay Kumar Chopra, Offset Printers Association Ludhiana, Kerala Master Printers Association, Technova Imaging Systems, Mr. Arvind Mardikar, Karnataka Offset Printers Association, Mr. AMSG Ashokan and Mr. V.K Malik too made contributions to the award. The contributions have resulted in an amount of about Rs. 18 lakh for the award so far, informed AIFMP. Mr Ashvin B Chhabra, son of Shri Viren Chhabra expressed his gratitude towards AIFMP for the pioneering efforts in establishing an award in honour of his father. Mrs Rami Chhabra said, “I would like to thank AIFMP and especially Prof Kamal Chopra for his remarkable initiative and leadership in launching the Viren Chhabra Print Leadership Award.”

September 2017

signage printing

Monotech Systems ties-up with AGFA Graphics Monotech to market Agfa’s entire UV flatbed product range in western and southern India. a crucial role in establishing many big global printing brands in India. Agfa graphics supplies to Sign and Display industry top of the line, highly productive and versatile wide-format inkjet printers and specialized inks, in addition to workflow automation software. Monotech Systems has tied up with AGFA GRAPHICS, Belgium and the new association means Monotech will market entire range of Agfa UV flatbed products in western and southern India. Established in 1999, Monotech systems has charted its growth on its commitment to bring new innovations in India and also to a great commitment towards customer service. Today the company is one of the largest products and solutions providers that played

Currently Monotech Systems offers its own branded Pixeljet range of solvent, eco solvent, UV Hybrid flatbed, true flatbed and UV LED roll to roll printers to the Indian wide format market. Agfa range of UV Flatbed printers include Anapurna, Avinci and Jeti for applications such as posters, billboards, POP displays, exhibition panels, stage graphics, construction announcements, ad panels, rigid printing etc.

Manoj Garg, General Manager – Wide Format Graphics, Monotech Systems says, “Market is moving towards UV printing for indoor and outdoor applications where customers are looking for economic, robust and maintenance free machines. We are glad to associate with Agfa Graphics which has a formidable reputation for innovation, quality products and proven expertise to provide solutions to the industry which will strengthen our efforts of bringing the best industrial and wide format printing products in its class to the industry.

Monotech Systems launches Pixeljet POWERPRO at Media Expo roll printing. This option enables to double the productivity when printing on smaller media—whether it is paper, vinyl or polyester.

Monotech Systems has launched latest innovation in Pixeljet range i.e. POWERPRO 3.2 meter soft signage UV LED Roll-to Roll inkjet printer at Media Expo, New Delhi. The Pixeljet POWERPRO is dedicated rollto-roll UV LED-curable printer, which comes in a six colour and a four colour plus white version, handles a broad scope of flexible media for indoor and outdoor applications. The POWERPRO is equipped with UV LED lamps that enable the user to print on a wide media mix and to save energy, costs and time. The four colour plus white version stands out by its ability to print white in different modes, improving the opacity of the printed material as well as increasing colour contrast and readability. The POWERPRO can also handle dual-

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The POWERPRO is ideal for mid-to-high end roll media printing of all types. It features extremely low ink consumption, for faster printing, fewer passes and rich results. This rugged printer can print at a speed of 700 sqft/h and is feature rich e.g. reinforced beam for accurate dot placement, table mounted automated media positioning bar the registration of rigids, Shuttle safety sensors to prevent print heads from touching the substrate, Ionization bar mounted on each side of the carriage to remove electrostatic charges on the substrate, user friendly graphic user interface etc.

The machine is equipped with latest generation of industrial printheads, solid design for great accuracy, UV LED lamps that save time, costs and the environment, flawless media handling, white printing to improve opacity, colour contrast and readability, multilayer printing, dual roll printing to increase productivity and more.

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Azure Press transforms short run production with Kongsberg India’s first Kongsberg X24 cutting table equipped with MultiCut-HP head supports flexible production. Innovative Bahadurgarh commercial print, packaging and sign & display converting specialist Azure Press, chose to invest in India’s first Esko Kongsberg X24 digital cutting table with MultiCupHP to transform its shortrun production. “We now entirely rely on the Kongsberg X24 digital cutting table for short-run production. It’s not just a sample-making table but also a production machine for short-run jobs. For 300 to 500 products, we no longer have to make dies as we can now directly process, cut and crease the products on the table,” says Mr. Sanjay Nagpal of Azure Press. Located 30 kilometers from Delhi, Azure Press is a commercial printer that diversified to rigid box making, signage and POP displays. It uses the versatile Kongsberg X24 table, with ArtiosCAD design software, for finishing and converting rigid boxes, corrugation as well as signage and POP displays. The X24 features a MultiCUT tool head offering milling productivity and a camera system. The table also comes with a LubriCool tool that sprays a light layer of oil to cool difficult substrates like aluminum and assure a good clean cut. “Operating the digital cutter is simple. Even even a layman can become an expert with just three to fours days of training,” says Mr. Nagpal. “This is the first time that we have installed a digital cutting table and we have come to understand the technology and its benefits. We thank the team at Esko for supporting us and helping us choose what was the most suitable for us.”

The Kongsberg X24 was launched at drupa 2016, where Mr. Nagpal and his son saw the clear advantages and benefits of this industry leading solution in comparison with other systems. The Kongsberg X24 comes with advanced tooling, a camera registration system, high-powered milling system with LubriCool for high-speed milling and better bit life. “With Azure Press looking at making a mark in the digital printing and finishing segment, they found the Kongsberg X series a perfect match for their future needs and production requirements. In addition, the Esko Kongsberg X series is upgradable to advanced automation systems,” says Mr. Talwar.

About Esko’s structural design software ArtiosCAD, Mr. Nagpal says, “ArtiosCAD has helped us not only on the design front but also in terms of saving precious time. The productivity of our packaging designers has also increased. Designing a rigid box is not as simple as it seems as the accuracy required is in microns. So ArtiosCAD was the obvious choice for us.” “We are extremely happy with the Azure Press installation of India’s first Kongsberg X24 cutting table with MultiCut-HP head. Azure Press is an innovative printer and we are delighted to see them choose Esko as their trusted partner,” concludes Mr. Talwar.

With support from Esko’s India team, Azure Press has been able to convert a nine-piece display stand into just three sections with ArtiosCAD and V-notch finishing on the Kongsberg table. “This kind of design and finishing integration drives huge savings and adds value for printers and converters. It’s these solutions, driven by application support, that delight customers like Azure Press,” states Mr. Karan Talwar, regional business manager – North & East India, Esko.

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ColorJet to launch VULCAN at Media Expo The 3.2 metre UV LED Roll to Roll Printer comes with many advanced features speeding up operation and maximising productivity.

Indian wide-format inkjet printers manufacturer, ColorJet India is launching its latest innovation VULCAN at Media Expo. The high speed 3.2 metre UV LED Roll to Roll Printer will be the highlight of hall 11, Stall C67 from September 22-24, 2017 at Pragati Maidan in New Delhi. VULCAN will also be exhibited at Visual Impact to be held in October 2017 in Sydney, Australia. VULCAN is empowered with the V8 technology and offers benefits of multitasking and multithreading to speed up the printing operations and maximise productivity. It combines outstanding print quality with smart memory utilization, speedy communication and thermal design technology.

Layer technology and a LED Light Box System. Additionally, its motorized carriage height adjustment, automatic ink regulator, LED lamps, plasma anti-static device, vacuum system, pneumatic press rubber roller, reinforced beams and carriage safety sensor features, make it is a great versatile machine.

The inkjet printer is equipped with an industrial head (Industrial Grade Jetting Assembly) and is expandable to translate into enhanced productivity and profitability for users. Capable of printing at 120 m/hr, VULCAN also offers White Printing, Flexi

The printer is loaded with an Eco Cooling System, in which the water cooling system is embedded which maintains printing temperature as well as removes media wrinkle. The dual-roll option enables customers to install two or more rolls one

after another, thus enabling simultaneous multiple job execution and efficient results with smaller media. Its Media Trimming System feature enables to cut the print media vertically in uni-direction. The ColorJet generation of white inks used by the inkjet printer are opaque which enable low ink consumption for coloured or dark substrates as well as transparent materials like glass for backlit and front-lit applications. Moreover, the white configuration technology can also be used as a spot colour along with white ink circulation system.

Events Calendar IFRA World Publishing Expo Date: 10 OCT 17 to 12 OCT 17 Venue: Messe Berlin Germany

DCX Digital Content Expo Date: 10 OCT 17 to 12 OCT 17 Venue: Messe Berlin Germany

IPEX 2017 Date: 31 OCT 17 to 3 NOV 17 Venue: NEC, Birmingham UK

7th Manipal Media Congress 2017

Print4All 2018

Date: 14 DEC-17 to 15 DEC-17 Venue: MIT, Manipal Karnataka

Date: 29 MAY-18 to 01 JUN-18 Venue: Fiera Milano - Rho (MI) Italy

PAMEX 2017

drupa 2020

Date: 18 DEC-17 to 21 DEC-17 Venue: Bombay Exhibition Centre, Goregaon Mumbai, Maharashtra

Date: 16 JUN -20 to 26 JUN-20 Venue: Dusseldorf Germany

PrintFair 2018 Date: 09 MAR-18 to 12 MAR-18 Venue: Hitex Exhibition Centre Hyderabad

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