Kolkata's RG Printers expands its garment printing capacity
Kolkata-based RG Printers installed its fourth Grafica automatic DTG (direct to garment) screen printing machine at its 30,000sq/ft facility.
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Delhi's Retail Junction mixes and matches with screen and digital
New Delhi-based Retail Junction boasts of an edge in the wide-format printing by investing in a combination of screen and digital printing technologies. Backed by a group of advertising and media professionals, Retail Junction offers, end-to-end printing solutions for indoor and outdoor use, beginning from conceptualisation to designing to printing and site installations.
Ludhiana's Addonz masters the art of colours on cloth
Two brothers Abhishek Soni and Hitesh Mehra armed with Bachelor of Technology degrees in textiles belonged with jewellery business, joined hands for a collective venture into garment printing and established Addonz, which added a Grafica DTG screen printing kit to multiply its production capabilities.
Automation boosted business
Rajesh Kumar, a mechanical engineer and his brother Tanuj Sawhney (B Tech), partners of Faridabad-based Dev Labels/Dev Print N Pack, say that their business dream cannot be achieved unless automation is adopted in screen printing.
Protolab re-shapes the value of industrial printing
In interview with Sanjay Mehta, managing director of Protolab Electro Technologies. Mumbai-based Protolab manufactures printed electronics and human-machine-interface and use of printing machines, colour matching, laser systems, die-cutting and laminating processes combined with environmental life cycle testing.
India bags 24 awards in SGIA Competition
India has bagged as many as 24 awards in the just concluded SGIA Golden Award Competition in USA.Out of these, 23 awards were won by three leading Indian printing companies and one by a Pune-based Engineering and printing technology institute.
Delhi's True Graphics makes inroads into automobile decals
New Delhi-based True Graphics & Ads has added a third Grafica Camshell screen printing kit of size 30x40-inches to meet the growing demand of automobile decals.
Ghaziabad's Feather Graphics proves its mettle with SGIA awards
Ghaziabad-based Feather Graphics India has established itself as a quality oriented screen printing company by bagging two international awards at the SGIA (Screen Graphic Imaging Association) award ceremony of 2016. It includes a gold for screen printing of a membrane switch and a bronze for decals.
Jalandhar's Creative Edge scores in decals for sports goods
Jalandhar-based Creative Edge has invested in seven semi-automatic screen print machines from Grafica Flextronica to capitalise on the demand for industrial stickers and labels.
Surat's Creative Graphics confident about industrial jobs
Creative Graphics with 30 to 35% growth rate has made the right moves. As the business grew in volume and revenue, Piyush Bhootwala, the proprietor of Surat-based Creative Graphics invested in Grafica Flextronica’s cylinder press: a fully automatic screen printing machine of size 20x30-inches with inline UV. After success in value addition, he has ventured into graphics and industrial screen printing by investing in a Grafica Camshell, a 30x40-inches semi automatic screen printing machine.
Surat's Shree MDG Print rolls out luxury packaging
Amidst the textile factories of Surat in the state of Gujarat there lies a creative printing company which rolls out over 50,000 eye-catching packaging boxes for saress, shirts and sweets. What’s so special about these packaging boxes? These are either 100% screen printed with UV special effects or micro embossed or combination of both. The company at the helm of its production is Shree MDG Print Solution, a young printing company headed by Kailash Jain, Prakash Jain, Nitin Jain and Kumarpal Jai
Ghaziabad's Accent Electronics growing at 80%
Ghaziabad-based screen printer Accent Electronics is on the path of growth after having increased its annual revenue figures to 80% from the earlier figures of 60%. These figures are indicative of the good growth of industrial screen printing in India.
Surat-based Creative Graphics is confident about industrial jobs and special effects
Creative Graphics with 30 to 35% growth rate has made the right moves. As the business grew in volume and revenue, Piyush Bhootwala, the proprietor of Surat-based Creative Graphics invested in Grafica Flextronica’s cylinder press: a fully automatic screen printing machine of size 20x30-inches with inline UV. After success in value addition, he has ventured into graphics and industrial screen printing by investing in a Grafica Camshell, a 30x40-inches semi automatic screen printing machine.
Power of screen printing in wedding cards
While hundreds of wedding card manufacturers/printers across India still engage manual screen printing, some have already changed their strategies by adopting automation to produce impressive wedding cards with value additions/UV special effects. With the wedding season currently underway, Shripada Bhat, editor, Grafica News India, highlights a few wedding card manufacturers who have adopted automation to indulge in creativity.
Classic Stripes, Shakti Keypads, Perfect Packaging, Protolab and Keetronics win Fespa 2017 Awards
Five Indian screen printing companies made the country proud by winning Fespa 2017 Awards in their respective categories. The awards were announced last week. Of these, four medals came in the functional printing category and one in the special effects category.
Grafica displays GraficaTex at Egy Stitch 2017
At Egy Stitch & Tex exhibition, held from 23 to 26 February 2017 at Cairo International Conference Center, Grafica displayed a live demo of direct-to-garment printing with digital-like quality on Grafica’s textile screen printing machines.
Grafica nano-print plus auto attracts visitors at Gulf Print
Grafica nano-print plus auto, an automatic screen printing machine with auto takeoff system, was the centre of attraction at the recently concluded Gulf Print and Pack 2017, held in Dubai.
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The management and staff of Chennai-based Lakshmi Cottage Industry have dual reasons to cheer and celebrate!
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A Happy Diwali to all print professionals and PrintWeek India readers!
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Classic Stripes in Vasai, PRS Permacel in Ambernath, SJS in Bengaluru, Craftsman Labels in Haridwar, Galio Graphics in Gurgaon, Pune Metagraph and AA’s Ad-Aids in Pune, Monochem and Rippu Daman in Delhi, Rybcal in Bhiwandi, Santi Arts in Guntur, Prayag Advertisers in Hapur, Vow Grafix in Baroda, and many other screen printing companies have something in common.
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The environment is a global issue that involves all the major industrialised nations. One may tend to believe that ‘environment’ is something outside. I would say ‘environment’ is a ‘local’ issue as far as the printing industry is concerned and it is an ‘inside’ issue rather than something outside.
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Six Indian printing companies – Tarun Print Tech, Classic Stripes, Spectrum Scan, PRS Permacel, Santi Arts, and Keetronics - brought home 45 awards in the recently concluded international ‘Golden Image Award’14 Competition’, USA.
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I am back from the ‘City of Joy’ after attending two exhibitions, namely, Garknit-X - related to garment finishing including stitching, embroidery, printing) and Eastern Print Pack, related to printing and packaging (offset, screen and digital included).
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On 25 September 2014, the Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, had launched the ‘Make in India’ initiative with an aim to give the Indian economy a global recognition.
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Despite the existence of offset and packaging printing presses in and around Bengaluru, why do many of the agarbatti / incense stick manufacturers prefer screen printed cartons?
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In the previous article we looked at the influence of off-contact on print quality, registration, ink deposit/color, mesh, stencil and squeegee durability and production speeds. We now explore how to minimise, measure and control offcontact distances to produce a sharp and repeatable image in industrial applications.
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I am back in Mumbai after the Screen Print India exhibition held in Goa from 18th to 21st September 2014.
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Value addition is the new norm. The advent of UV special effects has caught the imagination of creative minded offset and screen printers across Gujarat. Several printers (both offset and screen printers) have invested in screen printing machines exclusively to offer value addition, vis a vis, high end UV special effects, also termed - print decoration or print embellishment. Over to the vibrant Ahmedabad story of screen printers!
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Shripad Bhat, the editor of Grafica News India, brings together some success stories and the best work of screen print from across the country.
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During the Screen Print India 2014 roadshows and our DMI workshops, what we observed is, there exists a gap between technology investment and its execution in terms of applications.
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“It was a special occasion for the printers of Hubli-Dharwad and every participant gained a lot from the road show,” commented Arun Dani, treasurer of the new Hubli Print Cluster project, which is being developed in Hubli (Karnataka).
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The mall culture has made its roads in India and so has the presence of the brands. Each of these brands have tried, in various ways to reach out to their target audience. One way is the bags, the jute bags.
Mike Young's mantra for the new age screen printer
In an exclusive online interview, Mike Young, a SGIA Fellow and member of the Academy of Screen & Digital Technology, USA, shares his views with Shripad Bhatt about advanced screen printing process and related issues.
An inspiring ‘rags to riches’ success story of PentaPlus Printers
From a screen printing helping hand in 1987 to a print champion in 2015! For an entrepreneur with no family background in printing or cash in hand, to invest in the print business - with its high cap spends - was a pipedream. And so, screen printing was a stairway to the print heaven since it entailed an incremental investment in terms of money and space.
Look! Rakhi boxes have the touch and feel of UV special effects
On the eve of Rakhsha Bandhan celebrations, walk into some great fancy shops and discover Rakhis which come in fancy looking, colorful, intricate with amulets and decoration on top of it. Many shops on Mumbai’s streets adorn colourful Rakhis and attract every walker on the street. It is but natural that packaging printers too have a seasonal/flourishing business as Rakhis are now also sold in packs/box.
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Printers who are not still familiar (or never heard of) with advanced screen printing technology were either amused or confused while watching live demonstration of screen printed UV special effects on a semi automatic screen printing machine flanked by a UV curing machine at the Grafica stall during Print Pack15.
Recognising women in screen printing
A salute to all women entrepreneurs and working women in the screen printing sector.
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The trend of wide-format digital print solution providers investing in newer technology, continues.
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SPAI-Fespa achieve success in their renewed cross country Table Top exhibitions
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The cricket bat, to a great extent, is also used for branding by sports goods manufacturers. And it's used in all the formats of the game.
The story of Ubiquitous & indispensable Shopping Bags
You shop, I shop, everyone family shops during mass festive seasons such as Diwali! Almost everyone goes spending-spree/shopping-spree … it is but natural that shopping bags have a big role in the ‘shopping’ culture. You need to carry all your merchandise or gift items, from shops to home!
Ma Prints - a printer with a world record
Ma Prints enters the Guinness Book of World Record with its screen printing prowess.
The Champion of Garment Printing completes 25 years with over 200 awards Not Out!
The writer read somewhere that ‘the secret ingredient for the best recipe is nothing. For something to become special, you need to believe that it is special.’ And that is the belief of Bharat Sethia and Tarun Sethia of Mumbai-based Tarun Printing Works.
J B Khanna Pictures: A legacy of four generations
If the growth of Chennai-based J B Khanna Pictures is an indication, the demand for religious and spiritual pictures is increasing each day. The prominent festivals such as Janmasthami, Ramadaan, Pongal, Ganesh festival, Dasara, and the forthcoming Diwali, are the peak seasons for these prints published by J B Khanna Pictures. The company claims to have a stock of more than 1000 religious picture designs.
International Women's Day: Pledge for parity
International Women's Day, March 8, was a global day celebration in social, economic, cultural and political achievements for women. The day also marked a call to action for accelerating gender parity. Every year, the UN comes out with a unique theme. The theme for 2016 is 'Pledge For Parity'.
Screen in the time of digital print
Why did Kolkata-based A R Enterprise, a digital printer, invest in screen printing technology? asks PrintWeek India. As a wide-format print solution provider, with four digital presses with the capability of printing 5 feet to 10 feet print jobs. So why did A R Enterprise invest in Grafica’s screen printing system? A PrintWeek India spotlight on the digital and screen printing ‘jugalbandi’ (fusion).
Ubiquitous shopping bags – indispensable part of life!
You shop, I shop, every body shops! Almost everyone goes spending-spree/shopping-spree, but the fact is that the shopping bags have a big role in the ‘shopping’ culture. People use bags to carry merchandise, gift items, flowers, sweets, and vegetables., Business
The Screen Print Man: SWOT analysis of industrial screen printing
Production application like stickers and labels occupy a distinctive place when it comes to branding of a product. Sans some of these the final product or equipment cannot be rolled out of the factory (e.g, switches, electronics, electrical goods, etc). They have the potential to increase the worth of the product by many folds in the eyes of the buyer. Most of the time it must meet extremely critical test procedures so as to be accepted.
How three Mumbai firms aggrandise advertising
Three advertising balloon printers, who hail from the Konkan belt, tell their tale.
India bags 12 awards at Cannes
India ended with 12 Lions at the 2015 edition of the Cannes Lions, besides a Glass Lions Grand Prix. While a Grand Prix was elusive last year, the total award count in 2015 pales in comparison to last year's 32-Lion haul. McCann got two Silvers, CLA got one; DDB Mudra, Grey and Ogilvy won Bronze; BBDO picked up a Bronze Media Lion
Media companies reject 2013 report and end their association with IRS
Recently the Media Research Users' Council (MRUC), announced its Indian Readership Survey (IRS) 2013 report. This report has been rejected by The Indian Newspaper Society (INS), an association of Indian newspaper industry. MRUC has refused to withdraw the report.
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WARC announces entries for 2015 Social Strategy Prize
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Narendra Ambwani is the new ASCI chairman.
Indian printers score big at SGIA
Printers in India have a reason to celebrate. Four Indian companies have grabbed more than 20 awards at the 2015 Golden Image Award Competition.
Picture Gallery: Taxi Fabric
Taxi Fabric made its modest beginning as a Tumblr blog in 2013 that simply collected the bizarre and quirky seat covers and ceilings of taxis in Bombay. It is now a full-blown project that mainly collaborates with graphic designers to create exclusive theme based designs for the seat covers and ceilings of Bombay’s omnipresent black & yellow taxis. It has unleashed about 23 refurbished and inimitable taxis into the city so far. To delve deep into the Taxi Fabric story, we meet Sa