Design & Print elevates digital jobs with Canon
Design & Print is a complete commercial printing corner with activities evolving in both offset and digital jobs
18 Jul 2025 | 420 Views | By Rahul Kumar
Chennai-based Design & Print has recently invested in a Canon ImagePress V800 digital colour production system.
Established 10 years ago, Design & Print has two production units — one for offset and another for digital. A team of 20 experienced staff take care of both the units. “Parallel to offset, we embrace digital printing as a new way to diversify business into a different vertical,” Srinath Samy, proprietor of Design & Print, said. He added that the new Canon digital press is chosen to further enhance short-run jobs and bespoke prints.
He said, “This new iPR V800 is the second Canon press in our digital printing unit. The first one was an iPR C910, which we bought five years ago. Since then, we have been smitten by the prowess and potential of Canon technology. In addition to the machines, we are relatively happy with the way the team at Canon India helps us locally whenever we need support or guidance from them, whether technical or else.”
Digital unit of Print & Design engages in the printing and production of the whole range of commercial graphics and end-products, including business cards, brochures, calendars, fliers, catalogues, etc.
According to Samy, the company chose the new iPR V800 to boost productivity and print textures. “The beauty of this Canon digital colour production press is its capability to produce unique and bespoke graphics on textured media,” he added.
Designed for oversized prints, iPR V800 excels in printing on wide varieties of media, including textured papers. It handles substrates as thin as 52-gsm up to thick stocks of 350-gsm including covers, envelopes, synthetics, and long sheets of length up to 1300-mm. “With all these, this Canon digital press delivers graphics in 2400x2400-dpi with vibrant colours and textured surfaces,” Samy said.
According to Samy, it has been just three months since they started running the iPR V800, producing just 200,000 sheets till date. He asserts that they still have to exploit the most of the press’ capabilities to engage in printing and production of outstanding graphic prints. “We feel privileged to get such a machine which is ideal for short-run jobs, accompanied by Canon India’s unconditional support,” he concluded.