Installation updates: Canon, Muller Martini, Xerox, Komori and Swifts
A round-up of the most recent installations around the country.
12 Feb 2015 | By PrintWeek India
Installation updates: Canon, Muller Martini, Xerox, Komori and Swifts
Canon announces two ImagePress C800 installations in Mumbai
Canon (Hall 7 /Stall D-14) has announced two more installation of its ImagePress C800, the kit which Canon, at the time of its launch in September last year, had claimed is designed to help print firms earn profit.
The two installations are in Mumbai, one each at Jumbo Xerox and Digital Plus. With these two installations, the total number of C800 installations is close to 30. Along with the C800, Canon had also launched C700, both colour production cutsheet presses featuring new toner, laser imaging and colour calibration technology.
The C800 device operates at 80ppm, has a duty cycle of 5,00,000 pages, while the C700 runs at 70ppm and has a duty cycle of 4,00,000 pages.
Vishwakala Printers opts for Muller Martini kit for finishing
Bengaluru-based Vishwakala Printers along with its new Heidelberg investments has gone in for three new Muller-Martini (Hall 5/ Stall C-20) kits to strengthen its finishing capabilities.
The new kit, a hefty investment, as Vishwanath Babu, director at the firm claimed, has been bought in to focus a shift towards finishing. According to him, this investment will boost and enhance their quality work which they used to do manually.
The new set of machines include a Solo-Gatherer 3692, a four-clamp perfect binding machine and a six-station stitching line.
Allwyn Jumbo says yes to the Xerox 1000
With the addition of the Xerox 1000 (Hall 7 / Stall D-18), Mumbai-based retail print shop, Allwyn Jumbo Xerox is expecting a business growth of 25 to 30%.
Operating out of a 2500 sq/ft area, Allwyn specialises in POD solutions. “It can be on any media or in any format,” said Kirti Karia, proprietor at Allwyn.
“The reason to buy the Xerox 1000,” explained Karia, “was because of its speed, duty cycle and capability to run continuous jobs. ”
Komori backs Paras's 50% growth target
Three years after the company installed a four-colour Komori Enthrone 429, Delhi-based commercial printer Paras Printers has placed an order for another Komori machine with the same specifications.
Vijay Jain, the owner, who started his career as a stationery supplier from Dariyaganj, the book publishers’ hub in Old Delhi, said the reason he opted for another Komori was because he wanted to phase out the Dominant printing machines on his shopfloor and to meet his customers’ demand of quick delivery.
Insight (Hall 3 / Stall B-16) is Komori's Indian representative.
Swifts' newly launch kit to go to Colombo, Sri Lanka
The sixty-year old, Swifts, has diversified into digital printing with the launch of two variable digital printing machines – VDP Max, an A2 sized machine, and an VDP Compact, is the A4 size kit. The first VDP max will be installed at Ceylon Business Appliances, Colombo in Sri Lanka. The first VDP Compact will be installed at Computer Appliances in Ajmer, Rajasthan.
“The Swifts VDP is a combination press with piezoelectric inkjet head plus a bulking system and our traditional offset technology,” said Om Marathe (in the picture), incharge of business development at Swifts. “The equipment is low on cost, both in initial investment as well as running; has smaller footprint and is easy to use too.”
Marathe explained, “Our presses have been used by the print industry for several years, and when the operator sees this machine, he would have the confidence of having run the press before, and would run it without hesitation." The VDP Max is ideal for printing recharge coupon, barcodes, RFID, marking and coding.
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