The 39th edition of Media Expo was held in Delhi from 29 September to 1 October 2016. Spread across 12,444 sq/m area, the show hosted more than 200 exhibitors from eight countries primarily focusing on new-age solutions in print, signage, point of purchase, indoor and outdoor advertising, retail and shop displays and visual merchandising
Fujifilm brought its newly launched Vybrant 1800 eco-solvent wide-format printers to Media Expo. The Vybrant 1800 will be available for deliver by November 2016
Epson’s upper northern region representative K Dogra (left), chief executive, Dynamik Business Systems said: Pick up any media of up to 1.0 mm thickness for application in the indoor and outdoor commercial printing, and these presses will deliver colours consistent across the media
Chennai headquartered Monotech Systems has launched three wide-format printers – Pixeljet UV LED roll-to-roll printer with Ricoh generation five printheads; Pixeljet Satrfire Series with Spectra printheads, a solvent printer; and Pixeljet Jumbo Series with Konica 512i printheads
Mimaki India launched two new products – Mimaki UJV55320 and Mimaki UJF-3042 MkII. One is a 10-ft roll-to-roll UV wide-format kit with seven colours, CMYK with Lc, Lm and white and the other is an A3 flatbed UV printing machine that now comes with one litre ink cartridge
Rioch India launched a new wide-format printer Ricoh Pro L4160. According to Prasanna Rajagopalan of Ricoh India, the kit is equipped with latex technology and can print the colours orange, green and white along with CMYK
(from left) Smarth Bansal of Colorjet and Ravi Agarwal of Apsom Infortex. ColorJet India has an entry-level printer for the soft signage market, which it claims is ideal for “flag printing”
HP launched the Latex 500 series – the Latex 560 and Latex 570 printers at the show, though the two printers were introduced to a bunch of print service providers at an event held in Mumbai on 24 September 2016
KT Mohan, managing director at UV Printers, recovering from a bout of Chikangunya and in visible pain post-infection, said we see a lot of six-colour movements in the market “thanks to certain brands”
Pune-based wide-format print equipment manufacturer Macart unveiled a new solvent printer with Konica Minolta 30 picoliter printhead, which can print at 1,200 sq/m per hour in two passes at a resolution of 360x760 dpi
Established in 1992, Caldron Graphics displayed signage machinery, laser machines, printing inks, lamination machine and consumables
Faridabad-based manufacturer of print enhancement equipment, APL Machinery, launched a digital UV coating and curing machine at the event and sold four
China-made Aethra 512i, which is equipped with new Konica A8 KM 521i/30 PL printing heads, can print 2,400 sq/ft an hour. The 10-ft printer can print on most substrates like canvas, vinyl, flex and others
ITMS India, which represents LG Hausys, SRF, Jinflex, TechNova, Rajshree, and AT Inks, among others, displayed different kind of substrates at the show
Fujifilm brought its newly launched Vybrant 1800 eco-solvent wide-format printer to Media Expo Delhi 2016. The machine, launched in Mumbai early this month, had its commercial launch at the event on 29 September. What’s more, on the first day itself, it received a booking
Fujifilm Sericol presented range of solvent-based and UV curing inks for inkjet printing
Epson introduced three new SureColor 64-inch presses –S40670, S60670 and S80670. All three employ Epson’s advanced PrecisionCore printhead, Epson’s proprietary advanced image processing technology Precision Dot, and the new Epson UltraChrome GS3 eco-solvent ink
Smarth Bansal, brand manager for the Indian equipment manufacturer Colorjet, said: Eventually people would want to shift to fabric. Backlit fabric application is very easy to change, and in malls, you can’t have anything that is solvent-based
Daksh Enterprises displayed eco-solvent printer, UV flatbed printer and digital inkjet printer
Colorjet printers use dispersible water-based inks, presently imported from a Swiss-based ink company, and costs around Rs 3 per sq/m
Arrow Digital displayed a range of materials and equipment’s for digital printing and cutting, including EFI printers
Fair Deal Engineers displayed printing machines, non-woven bag making and printing machines
The Negijet brand has both solvent and eco-solvent kits in its stables. At the expo, Negi Sign Systems, which is also the pan-India distributor of Japanese leaders Mutoh, launched three new printers
Ahmedabad-based Mehta Cad Cam Systems launched multiple flatbed printers, among other products, at the expo. These include Rasterjet RJ 455V, Rasterjet RJ 1016, AD 1801S/ AD 1802S and Galaxy
Faridabad-based Prakash Offset, manufacturer of web offset printing presses and other equipment, showcased two colour non-woven printing press along with laser cutting machine
Display of backlit and blockout printing at the show
Goldtech Graphics launched a high speed printer with Konica 512i 30pl 8 printing head, which can print 2.600 sq/ft per hour
AT Inks displayed its range of digital inks. The company is the first Indian manufacturer of digital printing inks
Angel India Cad Cam, one of the four representatives of Mimaki India, displayed signage and printing machines, laser machines, routers, printing inks and plotters
Media Expo launches new print formats
Wide-format printing is going through changes. There are clear growth projections. Some say the signage market is growing at double digit. At the same time, technology is evolving. Flex is becoming obsolete and it is being replaced by polyester banners. The next big thing is printing on natural fabric using water-based inks. The market is also moving away from solvent-based inks to eco-solvent and UV. There are technologies to achieve these and there are machines of different ranges.