Awe-inspiring: The print bestsellers

PrintWeek India Printing Company of the Year 2011 - Parksons Packaging. Parksons Packaging was a commercial print shop, specialising in playing cards. In 1996, the company diversified into high-end packaging with a plant in Daman after which the firm setup the plants in Chakan near Pune and at Rudrapur in North India

PrintWeek India Student of the Year 2011 - Sonal Vishwasrao. She was among the ten students who were selected from the printing technology institutes across the country to attend a ten-day sponsored programme at Heidelberg’s Print Media Academy in Germany. For her consistent academic record, she was awarded a scholarship by Omnova Solutions, USA

PrintWeek India Pre-Press Company of the Year 2011 - Janus Packaging. it became India’s first to obtain the UGRA Certificate Process Standard Offset (PSO) in 2010. The firm invested in the Kongsberg XE10 cutting and creasing table to provide a fast, high-quality solution for sample-making and short-run production of folding cartons

PrintWeek India Small Printer of the Year 2011 - PrintExpressions. PrintExpressions has focused on investment in equipment because its management team knew it could add new services and clients like Audi, Hyundai, BILT, Pepsi and Nestle, among others. As a result, it recorded a robust gross sales increase of 402.23%

PrintWeek India Post-Press Company of the Year 2011 - Replica Press. It is an ISO 9001:2008 company operating from a 1,32,000 sq/ft sprawling print production facility in Kundli, Haryana

PrintWeek India Screen Printer of the Year 2011 - Eshwara Screens. Eswara sent in three miniature books of Mahatma Gandhi’s biography. The three were sized 5x5mm consisting 144 pages; 11x13mm with 124 pages; 10x12mm with 168 pages; and a 19-page palm leaf book in 24x8.5mm size, which amazed the judges

PrintWeek India Book Printer of the Year 2011 - Jak Printers. The Sacred India Book featuring India’s religious heritage, the book showcased photographer, Amit Pasricha’s breath-taking panoramas. The spectacular two-metre book (when open) weighs five kilos

PrintWeek India Brochure Printer of the Year 2011 - Pragati Offset. The real estate brochure that this Hyderabad-based printer produced for MJ Developers came in for special praise. It featured the creation of textured UV separation for each image, giving a tactile feeling on all pages

PrintWeek India Business Magazine Printer of the Year 2011 - Silverpoint Press. The Taj front cover was printed on Met Pet silver with UV process colours on a two-colour press with two passes

PrintWeek India Catalogue Printer of the Year 2011 - Silverpoint Press. Silverpoint consolidated its position with its Pierre Suite collection; the Taj Mahal Palace catalogue; the Shivam catalogue and the Mercedes-Benz collection

PrintWeek India Catalogue Printer of the Year 2011 - Vishwakala Printers. Vishwakala Printers was in the news during the last week of April 2013. The press block was inaugurated by Nagasundar of Geetanjali Graphics, the president, KOPA and vice president (S), AIFMP and by Sharada Nagasundar. The post-press block was inaugurated by A Balachandra of Rajhans Enterprises and his wife

PrintWeek India Consumer Magazine Printer of the Year 2011 - Manipal Technologies (formerly Manipal Press). The company houses a multi-colour web offset press from Komori, and sheetfed presses from Komori, Mitsubishi and Heidelberg along with a full service bindery consisting of a Muller Martini perfect binding kit

PrintWeek India Creative Repro Company of the Year 2011 - Honeycomb Creative Support. one of Honeycomb's biggest projects was photographing products by Tanishq, and an in-house photographer along with an on-site design/artwork team which was appointed to work at the Tanishq factory. Nearly close to 6,000 photographs of the products were taken and processed

PrintWeek India Digital Printer of the Year 2011 - Avantika Printers 9 September 2011, completed 23 years in the industry. the award winning CSR coffee table book of Avantika Printers, which was printed on Canon C7000 VP production system

PrintWeek India Fine Art Printer of the Year 2011 - Marvel Graphic Studio. the special feature was creating the gold colour in KG Subramanyam’s work which according to Marvel was quite challenging

PrintWeek India Innovative Printer of the Year 2011 - Jayna Packaging. The first time entrant Jayna Packaging’s Rocking Chair was made out of strongly bounded stacks of fabricated 180 gsm five-ply corrugated board

PrintWeek India Label Printer of the Year 2011 - Manohar Packaging. An array of processes were involved for producing the Signature Rare Whisky label which involved printing on Omet narrow-web press, double hot foil stamping, micro and deep embossing, and die-cutting all in one pass on 80 gsm mirror coat paper

PrintWeek India Newspaper Printer of the Year 2011 - Divya Bhaskar. The newspaper created an innovation by producing 3-D newspapers and newspapers with fragrance. It is these innovative features that set it apart from the other newspapers in this category

PrintWeek India Packaging Printer of the Year 2011 - Utility PrintPack. The company is a huge exporter of cartons for luxury and liquor products and used finishing techniques like satin matt lamination for the Hair Man carton to provide a luxurious tactile feel, fabrication on Shahama carton, which played the azaan every time the box was opened

PrintWeek India Personalisation, VDP & Transpromo Printer of the Year 2011 - Mail Order Solutions. According to the company, printing was divided into offset and digital elements and printed on metallic paper. Data was divided on the basis of languages and branches for ease of packing and distribution

PrintWeek India Point-Of-Purchase Printer of the Year 2011 - Resync Progressive Retail Solutions. The entry entry for Shoppers Stop displayed a specially designed dump bin to carry up to 40kg weight with a bottom lock and changeable branding option

PrintWeek India Point-Of-Purchase Printer of the Year 2011 - Spectrum Scan. The Vasai-based firm has invested in a intradeck- six-colour + coater (28-inch x 40-inch) Roland press and a new custom-made 5’x10’ thermo-forming machine

PrintWeek India Poster Printer of the Year 2011 - Pragati Offset. According to the company, it changed the artwork of this entry to achieve best animation along with the movement in vertical axis since the poster would be stationery on the wall and people would walk past it

PrintWeek India Reports & Accounts Printer of the Year 2011 - Parksons Graphics. The print jobs were created using multiple processes like blind foiling, screen printing, gloss spot UV, thermography, multi-colour hot foil stamping and a combination of process colour and Pantone shade printing

PrintWeek India Social Stationery Printer of the Year 2011 - Vishwakala Printers. According to a judge, the National Geographic calendar was simple and yet had eye-catching design; and the subtly reproduced colours, made the calendar more exquisite

PrintWeek India Wide-Format Printer of the Year 2011 - Spectrum Scan. The non-paper printing company used HP UV flatbed and latex printers to print the jobs and uses only substrates like PETG, HIPS, PP, PC, PVC, acrylic to produce signage and POP solutions

PrintWeek India Printing Company of the Year 2012 - Manipal Technologies (formerly Manipal Press). The Rs 27.75 crore family-run printing business in 1998 has transformed to a Rs 2775 crore well-diversified print services and business solutions organisation

PrintWeek India Post-Press Company of the Year 2012 - Replika Press. the firm has two dedicated printing plants capable of producing 1.2 billion books a year. The company is powered by a staff of around 500 people

PrintWeek India Pre-Press Company of the Year 2012 - Color Dots. The owner, Tarun Chopra is India’s second Ugra certified expert for PSO with experience for setting up printing presses for compliance to international printing standards

PrintWeek India Screen Printer of the Year 2012 - Classic Strips. Established in 1987, it is one of the largest manufacturers of automotive graphics in the world, with a production capacity of over 15 million automotive graphic sets per annum

PrintWeek India Small Printer of the Year 2012 - Prabhat Printing Works. The 15,000 sq/ft printing plant houses the latest equipment. Interestingly enough most of the equipment in the press has been inaugurated by Anna Hazare who is close to the Munot family

PrintWeek India Student of the Year 2012 - Fehmida Shaikh. Her consistent academic records and research presentations during the course of her studies at SIES College of Printing and Packaging, Navi Mumbai, was outstanding. She has a special zeal for package designing

PrintWeek India Book Printer of the Year 2012 - Jak Printers. Jak produced the books on Heidelberg Speedmaster 102S, a 28x40inch six-colour press, plates for which were fired on a Heidelberg Suprasetter platesetter

PrintWeek India Brochure Printer of the Year 2012 - Parksons Graphics. In 1957, Parksons Graphics entered the printing industry as manufacturers of playing cards. Parksons is also one of the few printers to be FSC certified

PrintWeek India Business Magazine Printer of the Year 2012 - Jak Printers. he magazines were produced on a Heidelberg GTO F52, a 15x20inch five-colour press and Heidelberg Speedmaster 102S, a 28x40inch six-colour press, utilising the Heidelberg Suprasetter to fire plates and an Epson Stylus Pro 9880 for proofing

PrintWeek India Catalogue Printer of the Year 2012 - Silverpoint Press. The catalogues were produced on Heidelberg CD 102 and Heidelberg LX five-colour presses with online coaters, both presses in sizes 28x40 inches

PrintWeek India Consumer Magazine Printer of the Year 2012 - Spenta Multimedia. The four entry magazines were printed on Heidelberg SM 102 and Heidelberg SM 74, both four-colour machines

PrintWeek India Creative Repro Company of the Year 2012 - Healing Tool. The pre-media firm has invested in raft of Macintosh and latest 3D softwares to create high-end campaigns

PrintWeek India Digital Printer of the Year 2012 - Avantika Printers. The print runs for the entries ranged from 30 to 150 copies and were printed using the Canon Imagepress 7010VP machine

PrintWeek India Fine Art Printer of the Year 2012 - Marvel Graphic Studio. According to Marvel, the process to print – Curiosity Kills the Cat took four months, which included concept, die-cutting, separation and other detailed process. Printing 250 sets of cards (54 cards per set) took 60 days. There are over eight to nine colours/screens per card and the paper used in this serigraph is Somerset Satin White of 300gsm

PrintWeek India Innovative Printer of the Year 2012 - Parksons Graphics. used a Sakurai flatbed press, outputting screen positive with a Prinergy workflow. Stitching was used as a post-press force. The bag is designed to be carrybag – a clutch and collapses into a travel pouch. The Bag produced for 61c had a run-length of 500 and used 105gsm Tyvek paper

PrintWeek India Label Printer of the Year 2012 - Any Graphics. The labels were printed on a six-colour plus inline coater, fully loaded interdeck UV, letterpress printing machine. Pre-press was done through Esko workflow ripped through an Esko Merge/Expose software and blocks made of Esko 2120 CTP

PrintWeek India Label Printer of the Year 2012 - Pragati Pack. All the labels were produced on the eight-colour full UV MPS EC 330 press using Dupont plates outputted on Esko CDI HD Flexo platesetter. The post-press included texture and gloss effect, emboss UV on brand and image, holographic UV and die-cut to shape and size. PP White paper and metalised papers were used

PrintWeek India Newspaper Printer of the Year 2012 - Dainik Jagran. With a print run of 4,15,000 copies, The newspaper were printed on a Manugraph CityLine 30 fitted with a Quadtech auto-registration system

PrintWeek India Packaging Convertor of the Year 2012 - Pragati Pack India. The Black Dog 21 years’ special feature was the soft touch lamination, foiling and spot UV. The rigid box was constructed with magnetic closure flat. The velvet finish was used to enhance the quality of the box, while the thermoformed velvet flock HIPS material ensure high impact strength and no scratches on the bottle or label

PrintWeek India Personalisation, VDP & Transpromo Printer of the Year 2012 - Hitech Print Systems. The special feature of the job was inline variable data printing along with static printing with Kodak Versamark 6240 in 240dpi for variable printing. The Muller Martini Grapha Progress press was used to print two colours on the front and one colour on the reverse with 2D barcode

PrintWeek India Personalisation, VDP & Transpromo Printer of the Year 2012 - Perfact Color Digital Prints. The company is equipped with iGens, DC 7000, DP 180s, Nuveras, HP 5500. Plus softwares from XMPie, GMC and FreeFlow

PrintWeek India Point-Of Purchase Printer of the Year 2012 - Spectrum Scan. Spectrum produced 500 units of Kinder Joy. The print job was done using a four-colour offset printer and CMYK colours. The die used for this job was produced in-house and thermoformed high impact polystyrene (HIPS) was trimmed to the required shape and mounted on the self adhesive vinyl branding

PrintWeek India Poster Printer of the Year 2012 - Silverpoint Press. The Mercedes Benz MB posters were printed on Natural Evolution white 280gsm paper. Heidelberg’s LX five-colour press with in-line coater was used to print these posters

PrintWeek India PUR Book Maker of the Year 2012 - Pragati Offset. The Royale Play Catalogue had swatches of Royale Play effects in both regular and metallic versions. Pragati used 12-colours and print in two passes

PrintWeek India Reports and Accounts Printer of the Year 2012 - CDC Printers. The annual reports on its Mitsubishi Diamond 1000 four-colour plus coater and Heidelberg SM 102 four-colour presses

PrintWeek India Reports and Accounts Printer of the Year 2012 - Parksons Graphics. HNGIL Delux Annual Report whose jacket resembled the metamorphosis of a cocoon into a butterfly. The judges were pleased with the fabrication of the jacket, which opened to reveal a glittering butterfly peeping out of a verbatim die-cut image

PrintWeek India Social Stationery Printer of the Year 2012 - Screen Art Enterprises. The job was printed with the special four-colour printing and special foiling and 1+1 card pasting with perfect border punching. The paper used was Natural Evolutionary card, Antique Gold and Metallic White gold and the print quantity ranged from 500 to 2,000 sets

PrintWeek IndiaWide-Format Printer of the Year 2012 - Excel Sign Solutions. The company used HP’s 8ft latex machine to print on Maxflex outdoor white vinyl of 100 micron and Grafica’s screen printing machine to print on glass. It made effective use of white opaque and mirror ink to get the mirror effect

PrintWeek India Printing Company of the Year 2013 - Pragati Offset. he year 2012-13 has seen Pragati garner a lot of awards and accolades, having won seven awards at the Asian Print Awards competition, 42 awards at IndiaStar 2013, following by three WorldStar wins for India

PrintWeek India Post-Press Company of the Year 2013 - International Print-o-Pac. As a book and magazine printer, IPP now serves over 25 book publishers and prints over 100 magazines each month. The company launched its range of stationery brand, Paperisto

PrintWeek India Post-Press Company of the Year 2013 - Replika Press. In 2012 Replika was assigned to produce two-crore copies of the book, Fifty Shades of Grey, a three-volume set for the Indian market with a committed date to be released worldwide

PrintWeek India Pre-Press Company of the Year 2013 - Trigon Digital Solutions. Trigon specialises in ideation and creation of packaging design, pre-press colour separation, and proofs and mock-up on actual substrate with technology partners such as Esko, Kodak and HP

PrintWeek India Packaging Converter of the Year 2013 - Utility PrintPack. Ahmedabad-based Utility produced 5,000 to 26,000 numbers of these packages and used Esko’s Scope 7 workflow, Screen CTP, a Bobst punch-maker, and Heidelberg CD74 six-colour press

PrintWeek India Small Printer of the Year 2013 - Perfect Print & Pack. the company invested in upgrading its six-colour press bought towards the end of 2011 with an UV curing system, the Elmag Superfici

PrintWeek India Student of the Year 2013 - Nikita Prabhu. According to this paper presentation, she has explained as to how every brand is different from the other and how it has made a benchmark in the market with respect to its package, product, cost, handling and consumer support

PrintWeek India Book Printer of the Year 2013 - Jak Printers. Printing a run-length of 300 to 4,000 copies of the above works, Jak produced the books on a Heidelberg Speedmaster 102S, a 28x40inch six-colour press, plates for which were fired on a Heidelberg Suprasetter platesetter

PrintWeek India Book Printer of the Year 2013 - Prodon Enterprise. ll of their samples were printed on different substrates, with multiple substrates being used in a single job. Inner page online satin coating was a highlight of all their samples. While the printing of the images in Roll Royce book is in harmony with that of the car, an icon of luxury, the 94 East Church’s creasing was designed and done using step format so that the pages can be easily turned

PrintWeek India Brochure Printer of the Year 2013 - Pragati Offset. All of which are four-colour jobs, Adroit Imperia and 77 Sky were printed on a Mitsubishi Diamond 3000 while the other two print job were printed on a Komori Lithrone 640 press. The Glade One brochure has velvet laminated outer hard case with highly intricate silver metal cut sticker

PrintWeek India Business Magazine Printer of the Year 2013 - Parksons Graphics. The samples were printed on a four-colour Heidelberg CD74 or a four-colour Heildelberg CD102 or a combination of both these offset printing presses. A wide range of substrates like 300gsm APP Art card, 130gsm APP Gloss Art paper, 300gsm Sinar art board, 210gsm Sinar art card, 2.5mm Kappa board, 100gsm Sinar art paper and 100gsm Sunshine Super printing paper were used to produce these highly niche magazines

PrintWeek India Catalogue Printer of the Year 2013 - Vishwakala Printers. All the catalogues were printed on 285gsm Natural Evolution white board for cover while the text was printed on 145gsm Natural Evolution white paper, except the Phonenix Choose Today catalogue, where 200gsm Natural Evolution White board for inner pages and 230gsm translucent sheet was used for the inner jacket. Apogee X workflow managed the single pass CMYK with online aqueous coated prints

PrintWeek India Catalogue Printer of the Year 2013 - Silverpoint Press. The catalogue was printed for Lodha Dwellers. It had a print run of 1,000 copies. The text job was printed on 200gsm Impressive Absolut while using five-colour, CMYK and special orange. The two+two-colour printed cover included offline UV curing on silver laminated card

PrintWeek India Consumer Magazine Printer of the Year 2013 - Manipal Technologies. All the samples were printed on a Komori heatset web offset press, CVR – Komori eight-colour sheetfed press and their pre-press consisted of an Esko workflow and Flexicrip from Esko. The plates were produced on the Screen 8600 with autoloader and online processor

PrintWeek India Creative Repro Company of the Year 2013 - Group FMG. All the images in RGB were converted to CMYK using One Vision workflow, and the clean-up was done using selective masking and creative colour-up

PrintWeek India Digital Printer of the Year 2013 - Avantika Printers. Match Box produced for customer Mukul Raut, has two parts, one is postcards and other is packaging the postcards into a box. The cards and paper passed on the box were printed on a Canon Imagepress C7010VP colour digital production press, and the press’ capability to emboss was used to give the effect on the side of the box, which was punctuated with screen print and UV lamination process to highlight some part of the work

PrintWeek India Fine Art Printer of the Year 2013 - Marvel Graphic Studio. The four entries have had print runs in the range of 90 to 125, with tones of colour/screens ranging from 35 to 56, which took more than 35 to 45 days to print

PrintWeek India Innovative Printer of the Year 2013 - Parksons Graphics. Parksons fabricated a box using four-ply double wall heavy duty corrugated, 300gsm three-M-duplex board, and printed the titles with illustrations (in four-colour) on the outer side of the box, with its Heidelberg XL 105. All the titles were placed in the box. Since the box was around 45kgs, four castor wheels were fitted to the box to make it mobile. The fabrication of box makes it a multi-purpose items. The lid of the box has been created in such a way that it can be pulled out and used as a handle for the trolley. The box can also be used as a chair and a table to write

PrintWeek India Innovative Printer of the Year 2013 - Spectrum Scan. The Cadbury thermoformed large-format is a high-impact display item. The back-lit, print and formed backlit signage was designed in-house. The pre-press included colour and graphic correction and pre-distortion to compensate for thermoform distortion. Semi-automatic screen printing machine was used to print the PET G acrylic sheets. In-house thermoforming machine was used to form the shape of the bottle. CMYK colour was used to produce and a special colour was used to compensate for the distortion of colour and day and night effect

PrintWeek India Label Printer of the Year 2013 - Any Graphics. All the samples were printed on different substrates like metallised polyester (Kent Supreme and Seven Islands), a combination of clear and metalised film for Kholasaat and Vinyl was used in the production of the Red Lion job

PrintWeek India Newspaper Printer of the Year 2013 - Anandabazar Patrika. The standard newsprint for that day’s daily, was jacketed with a Glama transluscent paper, which was printed using a cold web offset process at a speed of 23 copies per second. The award entries were counted, packed, and top-sheeted automatically by the Swiss-make Ferag mailroom system. Adobe Acrobat PDFs were pre-flighted using Onevisin Asura and plates were fired using Agfa Arkitex CTP

PrintWeek India Personalisation, VDP & Transpromo Printer of the Year 2013 - Buzz IMC. All jobs were printed in CMYK using HP Indigo 5500 on a Galgo 270gsm substrate. All the samples differed in finishing, with varied post-press processes like centre stitching, die-cutting, back-to-back pasting and laser-cutting being used

PrintWeek India Point-Of-Purchase Printer of the Year 2013 - Jayna Packaging. Kinder Joy Arch display, Old Spice standing unit, Oral B island display and Rubber Band floor standing unit. All the entries were made from 100% recyclable heavy duty corrugated board with five-colour printing. Explaining the Kinder Joy Arch, Jayna states that the client wanted to make an island display which would carry a stock of around 50kgs and be sturdy enough

PrintWeek India Point-Of-Purchase Printer of the Year 2013 - Spectrum Scan. The Babylip FSUs has been printed on self-adhesive vinyl using HP latex 65500 six-colour wide-format digital press and mounted on the fabricated FSU with sunboard. The POP for Nokia is printed on the Atma screen printing machine, which has been thermoformed for shape and fabricated to form the display with programmed LED lighting

PrintWeek India Poster Printer of the Year 2013 - Screen Art Enterprises. The company’s four Divya Thakur posters, used pre-press techniques to produce the perfectly registered, large-format, three-colour screen printed sheets with special gold finishing. The job was printed and delivered in two days. The company printed 50 copies of each poster using Natural Evolution Ivory 240gsm paper

PrintWeek India PUR Book Maker of the Year 2013 - Pragati Offset. The judges were looking for consistency in quality along with durability, less wrinkling in the backbone and lay-flat quality. Pragati scored big due to the level of difficulty and precision in execution. The Ozz Fest job consists of different sections, each with different page widths which makes sewing a laborious process. With PUR, a good binding strength and fast turnaround was possible

PrintWeek India Reports and Accounts Printer of the Year 2013 - Parksons Graphics. Parksons used 250gsm APP art card, 170gsm APP gloss art paper, 128gsm Emote Bright White, and 105gsm Karess Imprint White for the JK Cement – Deluxe Annual Report. The report was printed on the Heidelberg CD74 and CD102 presses, using shimmer offset with Colourlogic software. Finishing was provided using lasercut

PrintWeek India Screen Printer of the Year 2013 - Quenby Transfers. The entire process required three or more passes through the Svecia fully automatic flatbed screen printing machine. Sheets needed to be coated with special matt release by the screen printing press, before the image was printed using Heildelberg 104 offset press with a spectrum analyser with low oxidising vegetable oil-based inks. The sheets need to be allowed seasoning and followed by gold and adhesive, hot foil stamping, silver metallic and adhesive or metallic blue and adhesive

PrintWeek India Social Stationery Printer of the Year 2013 - New Jack Printing Press. Three of the four entries were designed by an in-house creative team at New Jack. While the printing processes used to achieve the desired results is an interesting mix of technology; offset printing, digital printing, screen printing and UV printing were used. The winning entries used a large range of post-press processes to reach an aesthetic peak. Leather effect UV, wrinkle UV, spot embossing, laser cutting, back-to-back pasting, thermal lamination and electroplating pasting

PrintWeek India Wide-Formate Printer of the Year 2013 - Macromedia Digital Imaging. Macromedia used a range of wide-format machines from HP (including Vutek) and Esko Kongsberg for cutting purposes. The company used media from 3M, Avery, Star and Hanwa