Picture Gallery: Spectrum of trends and niches at Media Expo Delhi
During the three days of the advertising and signage exhibition, over 22,000 visitors were welcomed by a fair mix of machines and consumables manufacturers, and few printing service providers
The principal reason why Media Expo Delhi could secure good number of visitors was its proximity to wide-format printing and signage hubs like Paharganj and Jhandewala
There are around 1000-plus signage printers in Delhi NCR, of which around 20% utilise mid and high-end equipment to deliver solutions. The rest 80% of the market is scattered between mid-and entry-level printers and jobbers
Apart from the fact that three print service providers at the show were HP latex customers, wallpaper and vehicle printing segment in general shows signs of traction
Puneet Chadha of HP: "We have a significant amount of progress in terms of numbers and sq/ft print, with more than 15,000 latex machines installed worldwide. There are a few hundred latex in India. Overall, worldwide its 1,00,000sq/m
Padmakar Ojhale, country head for India region at Fujifilm: We have two installation of Fujifilm Acuity LED 1600. In the coming two months we will be able to complete another four installations
Colorjet India displayed its direct to fabric printer, Softjet. It can print up to 645 sq/ft in an hour using dye sublimation direct ink and has a maximum printing width of 72.5inch
UV Printers displayed UV flatbed large format printers from its principal partners Dilli Korea, at the show. It also displayed an array of applications possible using the technology
Mohan KT of UV Printers: In tough times, when the raw material costs and shortages have been troubling the industry, a move towards digitisation is a good strategy
Max Flex & Imaging Systems, the printing consumables specialist launched Max Wall-Print Media. Hitesh Jobalia, managing director, Max Flex claims it’s a unique material with unsurpassable strength and outstanding tear and puncture resistance
Roland and Apsom Infotex targeted the market with the 64inch Roland Versaart RA 640 and XF 640 printer. A team of experts discussed and gave demonstrations about print applications possible on the machine
Roland Versaart RA 640 is equipped to produce droplets of seven different sizes and has a maximum resolution of 1,440dpi
Roland also conducted live demonstrations to explain a range of wide-format printing applications possible on its Soljet Pro4 XF-640 and Soljet Pro XR-640
Ravi Agarwala of Apsom Infotex: We have a target of at least 500 machines by the end of March 2014. We have installed more than 100 machines. We are on target
Arrow Digital displayed Jetrix KX5 UV flatbed printer at its stand. Prakash Chopra, business manager: We already have installed ten Jetrix in India in last one year, two in north, around six in west, and one in south
Caldron Graphics announced acquiring distribution for HP Latex technology based machines. Rajat Mitra, director, Caldron: Recession and economic slowdown has badly hurt us. The silver-lining is everything is moving towards digital
Negi Sign Systems displayed Mutoh Valuejet VJ 1638W aqueous printer. Vijay Kandari, sales head: We have installed more than 3000 printers in last 16 years. Volumes and number of players are also growing but margins are heading south
Atul Gandhi, director, Macart Equipment: The last year was good for us, we just established a new plant at Ahmedabad, and might add another by 2014. We are growing by more than 20% annually
Amit Goswami, CEO, Mattrix Digitech Solutions: We sold five machines on the last two days including two Mattrix Konica LK 32 machines to customers in Jaipur and Delhi
Strategic launched the upgraded version of its Shark eco-solvent printer, Shark 2. Sarabjit Singh Bedi, director, Strategic Printing Solutions: We have sold around 185 Shark 1 solvent printers since their launch in 2010
Chennai-based Monotech Systems made the formal announcement of acquiring the dealership for Israel-based Matan’s Barak range of grand format hybrid UV printers. The machine, however, was not on display at its stand
Arjun Nanda, managing director of Delhi-based Eye Candy Visuals: The market for wallpaper and vehicle graphic printing had faced a slight slump recently, but it is now picking up
Sahil Graphics was the only offset machine manufacturer to exhibit at the show.It conducted live demo of its mini-offset machine for printing D-cut non-woven bags at the show
Shafiq Ahmed, director, Sahil Graphics: The year 2012-13 has been reasonably good for us as we have been growing despite the slowdown in the industry
Coimbatore-based Shiva launched a textile inkjet printing textile media Intensipix, and a digital canvas printing media Q-Print at the show
A digitally printed canvas displayed at Shiva's stand. R Balakrishnan, senior manager, Shiva Texyarn: We have a business volume of Rs 30lakh for our art canvas product-line, and expect it to touch Rs 50lakh by FY2013-14 end
Picture Gallery: Spectrum of trends and niches at Media Expo Delhi
Media Expo 2013, which was held from 27-29 July at Pragati Maidan, Delhi, saw a footfall of 22,000 visitors. In addition to several new launches, the show also offered an insight on the new trends and niche segments of the signage and advertising industry.
Major highlights from the show...
Photographs: PrintWeek India team
Words: Supreeth Sudhakaran