Replika Press marks a huge leap in book printing with investment in kit and site
Replika Press celebrated the printing of its most cherished book River of Smoke this year by moving and integrating the existing fleet of new post-press machines, in its extended 66,000 sq/ft premise in the Export Promotion Industrial Park (EPIP) in Kundli, Sonepat in Haryana.
06 Jul 2011 | By Rahul Kumar
Replika Press marks a huge leap in book printing with investment in kit and site
The River of Smoke was launched by author Amitav Ghosh on 2 June 2011 in New Delhi. This is the second book in the trilogy of Ibis, published by Hamish Hamilton, an imprint of Penguin Books.
Replika Press exemplifies a gigantic book printing infrastructure. The 1,32,000 sq/ft sprawling print production facility has been inter graded from end-to-end with SAP ERP application across all verticals of pre-press, press and post-press.
Sanandan Seth, one of the directors at Replika, said: "We have invested Rs 15-cr in new building and machinery, mix and matching some of the best first machine in India to complement the fleet of 17 offset machines."
The Replika’s post-press has infrastructure that boasts of Heidelberg Stahlfolder TH 82; Multiplex In-Line, a 24 stations machine featuring 24 SignalLynx systems with optic controls; Kolbus Casemaker DA 260 with facilities of flexi bind, flat back and eccentrics binding; Kolbus book production Line BF 527; Kolbus FE 604 book forming and pressing machine with Kolbus DS 391 book stacker.
Besides, Replika has Aster and Muller Martini sewing machines, Sigloch book block processing machines, MBO combi-folders, Heidelberg and Bremer Mc Cain folders, Wohlenberg and Muller Martini perfect binders.
Replika, which prints 3,000 book titles per year, will soon announce a slew of further investments it has made. Bhuvnesh Seth, managing, director, said: "A KBA Rapida 105 (U) eight-colour kit is under installation. And the process for ISO 12647 certification for prepress and printing by Fogra should be in place by end of the year."
Replika Press exemplifies a gigantic book printing infrastructure. The 1,32,000 sq/ft sprawling print production facility has been inter graded from end-to-end with SAP ERP application across all verticals of pre-press, press and post-press.
Sanandan Seth, one of the directors at Replika, said: "We have invested Rs 15-cr in new building and machinery, mix and matching some of the best first machine in India to complement the fleet of 17 offset machines."
The Replika’s post-press has infrastructure that boasts of Heidelberg Stahlfolder TH 82; Multiplex In-Line, a 24 stations machine featuring 24 SignalLynx systems with optic controls; Kolbus Casemaker DA 260 with facilities of flexi bind, flat back and eccentrics binding; Kolbus book production Line BF 527; Kolbus FE 604 book forming and pressing machine with Kolbus DS 391 book stacker.
Besides, Replika has Aster and Muller Martini sewing machines, Sigloch book block processing machines, MBO combi-folders, Heidelberg and Bremer Mc Cain folders, Wohlenberg and Muller Martini perfect binders.
Replika, which prints 3,000 book titles per year, will soon announce a slew of further investments it has made. Bhuvnesh Seth, managing, director, said: "A KBA Rapida 105 (U) eight-colour kit is under installation. And the process for ISO 12647 certification for prepress and printing by Fogra should be in place by end of the year."
| FACTFILE |
| Location EPIP Kundli, Sonepat, Haryana Founded in 1948 and renamed in 1996 Strength 3000+ titles, 6500 MT of paper per annum, 18,000 hard case and 40,000 soft case books per day, Equipment 17 offset machines from KBA Rapida, Roland, Heidelberg and Mitsubishi; Two Screen CTP; two HP and one Epson proofers; Techkon SpectroPlate reader and SpectroDrive spectrodensitometer; a raft of MBO, Stahl, Bremer, Aster, Muller Martini, Astronic, Multiplex, Wohlenberg, Kolbus, Perfecta, Kluge post-press kit Staff 450+ |
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