Prize for best research paper at Romancing Print

With technologies changing fast and furious, it is difficult to foresee where exactly the print market is heading. How printing units will survive the onslaught of internet? How will they fight the increasing global competition? These are but a few questions that every printer should understand and answer, for future survival.

28 Jan 2015 | By Dibyajyoti Sarma

This is one of the aims behind the annual event, Romancing Print, organised by the All India Federation of Master Printers (AIFMP), to be held on 24 and 25 February, 2015, at Hisar, Haryana. Organised in collaboration with the Department of Printing Technology, Guru Jambheshwar University of Science & Technology (GJUS&T) at Hisar, the theme of this year’s event will be ‘21st Century Printing.’

According to Anand Limaye, HGS, AIFMP, the event will have presentations by resource persons from India and abroad and research paper presentations by faculty members, researchers, industry experts, and students from all over India.

Limaye said the best research paper received from a print technology student, and the best paper from a print teacher will be awarded Rs 1,00,000 each. The international experts will evaluate the papers.

“All the papers received and presented during the two-day conference will be collected in a book with ISBN number, so that further studies and research is possible on the subject,” Limaye added.

At the research-oriented international conference, technologists and ‘print pundits’ from across the globe will share their views on the future trends in printing and packaging. The invited experts include: Wang Yongsheng, vice-chancellor, Beijing Institute of Graphic Communication; Sidney Bobb, chairman, British Association for Print & Communication; Yen Chen, president, China Print Academy; Håvard Grjotheim, CEO, 07 Media and president of Intergraf; Beatrice Klause, secretary general, Intergraf.

There will also be experts from the country, including names like Dr Rajendrakumar Anayath, CN Ashok and Kiran Prayagi who present industry stories.

Kamal Chopra, chairman, international relations, AIFMP, said, “Innovative business models pave the way for a secure future. At this must-attend conference, the experts will share their views and insights on how to withstand the challenges technology and competition pose to the print business.”

Guru Jambheshwar University of Science & Technology, Hisar, the venue of the conference, is located 159 km from Delhi on Delhi-Rohtak-Fazilka Road (NH-10). A fast developing city in Haryana, the nearest airports for Hisar are New Delhi (159 km) and Chandigarh (231 km). Hisar is connected with road and rail with rest of the country. Besides taxies, buses are available from ISBT, Kashmiri Gate, New Delhi.