PrintWeek India Awards 2018: Manipal Technologies is the Magazine Printer of the Year (Joint Winner)

Manipal Technologies was adjusted the Joint Winner in the category, along with Silverpoint Press, during the 10th edition of the Awards held in Mumbai on 29 November 2018.

29 Nov 2018 | By PrintWeek India

The highlight of the AD The Craftsmanship issue is the cloth-embedded cover design fitted with precision without letting the fibres loose along the edges. Total 16,000 copies have been printed on Novapress gloss 80gsm for text and Lumi art gloss 200gsm for cover on the Komori S38 for text and Komori L840 eight-colour press for cover.

The highlight of the Architectural Digest Concrete edition is the concrete-embedded cover artwork, where concrete sheets are die-cut and pasted manually. It also features a pop-up artwork on 200gsm board.

The National Geographic Traveller, with a run length of 9,000, features a vibrant colour output on cover with fine gloss lamination printed on ITC Cyber XL 200 gsm. Esko workflow and colour separation tools have been used for the pre-press operations.     

The Vogue Happy Issue also features a vibrant cover design with UV varnish.

The shortlisted companies in this category were

Archana Advertising

Dhote Offset Technokrafts

MM Publications

Thomson Press