The Parksons print factory in Taloja - A collection of heavy metal and printing minds

Three Quality Awards at PrintWeek India Awards 2013, the low-key Parksons Graphics is earning brownie points from top publishers. PrintWeek follows the journey of the press from the Andheri unit to their prized possession of a 60,000 sq/ft factory in Taloja. The unit is packed with post-press kit and populated with work that targets the export market. At its heart, the Kejriwal family have an unwavering belief that come what may, good work can create masterpieces and raise the bar.

13 Dec 2013 | By PrintWeek India

The four-storey factory is Parksons' third factory after Daman and Andheri. The plant is spread across an area of more than 60,000 sq/ft.

The firm's pre-press operations are housed in the Andheri unit and the printing plates are fired onto a Kodak Trendsetter in Taloja.

The pre-press department of Taloja plant has a Trendsetter 800, Kodak plate developer and Kodak Matchprint inkjet proofer.

Kodak's Matchprint inkjet proofer is colour calibrated with the Heidelberg XL 105. It produces accurate colour proofs for client's approval which boosts the final production.

Parksons is an ISO 9001:2008 certified company. It has laid down the standard operating procedures for every department.

The Heidelberg Speedmaster XL 105, which was installed two years ago is the workhorse at the factory.

TPH's Orient web offset press is deployed for long run jobs especially annual reports.

The printed sheets are made ready for folding operation.

The post-press department hosts a 32-page Heidelberg Stahl folder. The recent installation has helped Parksons to provide top-quality folding which is required for the export market.

The folded sections are ready for collation and binding.

The Kolbus 16-station gathering machine is efficient, rugged and automated.

Parksons has invested in a 22-clamp Kolbus perfect binder to speed-up its book production process.

The perfect bound books travel to the three knife trimmer via a conveyor belt.

The perfect bound books are fed into the programmable three knife trimmer from Kolbus.

After trimming the three sides, the book blocks await their turn on the casing-in machine.

The shop-floor is equipped with an Aster EL Astronic sewing machine which provides 10 stitch positions. This enables the stitching of books from a size range of 75x150mm up to 320x420 mm. The machine was supplied by Indo European Machinery.

The lamination requirement is fulfilled by Macrobond's machine.

A hard-case being readied on a Kolbus case maker.

The hard-cases are ready to be fed into a casing in machine.

The casing-in machine takes the trimmed book blocks and pastes hard case covers and readies the finished book.

The books are ready to be packaged and shipped.

The finished books are shrink-wrapped individually or in multiple numbers depending up on the customer's requirement. It ensures zero damage until it reaches the end-user.

On its way to the final packaging in a ship liner box; as per statutory guidelines.

Parksons Graphics has recently forayed into export oriented book production. Export comprises 40% of the total sales.

Surendra Babu, marketing director at Parksons Graphics, showcases one of the top publishing jobs based on Raja Ravi Verma produced by the company.

Babu explains to Sachin Shardul and Anand Srinivasan as to how Parksons manages to get the colours and finishing quality of the job to match the export standards.