Despite the effects of demonetisation, 2016 was a landmark year for the industry. It was a Drupa year, so we saw a lot of investments in machines, equipment and software. Closer home, we had Labelexpo India, and host of other major exhibitions, besides numerous product launches, seminars and conferences.
In this two-part gallery to celebrate the industry at its peak, we bring you the best of the pictures featured on the pages of PrintWeek India. Stay tuned for the next instalment
Pragati in SBL automatic foil stamping kit buy at Drupa 2016
At Drupa, Newspaper group Sakal’s packaging move gets KBA, Bobst boost
Kanpur’s Ramji Press invests in Heiber + Schroeder machines
Noida-based Nutech Packagings buys India’s first Scodix E106
It is "guesstimated" that there could be at least 28,000 Indian visitors at Drupa by the end of the show. India zindabad
This year marks Huber Group’s 250 years of existence, 25 years of Micro Ink and 10 years of Micro-Huber partnership
Packaging: The eight-colour rotogravure printing machine at Uflex's Packaging Plant in Noida
Replika’s expansion, which includes a new factory near its existing plant in Sonepat, with a floor space of more than 4,80,000 sq/ft
Established in 1991, Vijayshri Packaging celebrated its silver jubilee on 21 October by launching a new 2-lakh sq/ft plant in Indore
Established in 1961, Lovely Offset is Sivakasi’s biggest print firm
The core team of Flex Films (USA), from left, Praveen Murlidharan, responsible for IT; RatneshwarJha, responsible for accounts and finance; Wayne Morris, chief financial officer; KK Sharma responsible for production and Deepak Chopra, who take cares of sales and marketing
Kap Cones is one of the biggest manufacturers of sugar rolled cones, cone-sleeves, cups, tubs, laminated tubes, transparent soft-creased boxes, and food packaging. The company invested in a Bobst M6 line and OmetXflex X6 flexo press during Labelexpo Europe 2015
Located in Greater Noida, the Burda Druck India book factory is going flat out 24x7. The mantra is: Competitive pricing, quality of printing and meeting delivery timeliness with strict schedules
At Pragati’s Lakdi Ka Pool unit, a squad of engineers from Indo Polygraph Machinery completed the installation of a brand new seven-colour plus coater KBA Rapida 105 full UV press
Nice Prints, the 32,000 sq/ft factory located in Harohalli in Kanakpura where a team of 110 professionals caters to the pharma industry
Aakruti Digipress unwraps Secunderabad store with new HP Indigo 5600
Pragati prints 10mn unique cartons in a packaging tour de force
B H Srinivas of Usha Prints entered the print industry at the age of 13 when like India's PM he served tea at a printing press. From those humble origins he has created a brand which is respected
Mumbai-based Indigo Press, which specialises in magazine printing, had invested in a pre-owned KBA Rapida 105 in 2013
Tamil Nadu-based Subam Printers has invested in a brand new Heidelberg Speedmaster SM74 four-colour press
SRK Creative’s offset business, Shine Image, brought in a brand new Komori Lithrone A37, a four-colour plus coater. This is two years after it installed its first refurbished Komori 528 five-colour plus coater
All about the man behind the machine: Sandip Thanawala of Neat Graphics (c) has returned to Thane where he had begun his pre-press journey two decades ago in a brand new segment. “We have been traditionally producing CTP plates, but we recently considered the introduction of a digital wide-format printer to cater to the market in displays, signs and labels"
Jak Printers has created and maintained a mighty fine press in the heart of Mumbai is most enviable. It’s the little things about Jak’s plant that makes it special : a visually impaired employee at the front-desk and the collection of customer comments on a noticeboard. Environmentally friendly, they haven’t felled the pipal tree around which the unit has been constructed
KGN Xerox has six strategically placed retail print outlets in Hyderabad with the seventh one being readied for launch at Manikonda. In picture is the Gachibowli store
A print service provider by roots, Amit Shah of Spectrum Scan (r) likes to introduce his company as a ‘brand building specialist’. “Print is the final touchpoint but fabrication is the key,” Shah said. The PrintWeek India team along with 13 designers from Wow Design, visited Spectrum in Vasai
The main brains of the tenth BMPA Print Summit 2016
While earlier the Taxi Fabric team used to get in touch with a set of graphic designer friends, they now work with people who get in touch with them
Mumbai-based label specialist, Mudrika Labels has invested in a Vinsak 330 slitter review with an EyeC inspection system. Vinsak's Pailwan with Mudrika's Desai at Labelexpo India 2016
Guru Ji Graphics, a well known CTP house in Patparganj Industrial Area in New Delhi made an investment in Kodak Flexcel NX flexo CTP through Monotech Systems during Labelexpo India 2016. Vimal Paliwal of Guru Ji Graphics (fourth from left) and others at Labelexpo
Parksons Packaging is the PrintWeek India Printing Company of the Year 2016
(r) Noel D'Cunha of PrintWeek India, says, that "only 25% of the Drupa visitors from India were genuinely serious about the show." With Rushikesh Aravkar at the show
