Lucknow’s Prakash Packagers sails smoothly with Komori

Shri Prakash Narayan Bhargava, after whom the name Prakash Packagers was coined, founded the company in 1973. He is the first Polygraphy Engineer from Germany in Uttar Pradesh and recipient of the title UP Ratna for his invaluable contribution to the overall growth and promotion of the industry in the state.

Over the decades, the family-owned company has been growing from one level to another. Amit Bhargava, director, Prakash Packagers, said, “It’s really my pride to be the second generation to uphold the legacy of Prakash Packagers, which is now poised to be one of the largest and best-equipped offset printing and packaging converting companies in UP with multi-generational workforces.”

Spreading over an area of 30,000-sqft, Prakash Packagers boasts a state-of-the-art production facility which is fully equipped with lines of pre-press, press, and post-press machines and equipment from the world’s leading brands like Komori and others. “We have been an aficionado of Komori technology. Currently, we run three Komori presses among which the latest one being a Lithrone G40 Advance, just completed its installation,” Bhargava said.

The first Komori press at Prakash Packagers, a Lithrone GL437, was installed in 2022. Followed up next was a Super Lithrone LS-440 last year. This year, a highly versatile Lithrone G40 Advance has been added as the third Komori to the company’s machine portfolio. “With the addition of this new Komori press, we are boosting our productivity of commercial graphics and end-products like books to a whole new level,” Bhargava said, adding that this new press is ideal with revolutionary functions. 

A new benchmark of productivity and sustainability, Lithrone G40 Advance is a perfect press for extensive commercial and packaging jobs. It is capable of operating at a maximum speed of 17,200sph (sheets per hour), handling sheet sizes up to 750×1050mm. In addition, this eco-friendly Komori press is equipped with environmentally responsible functions that eventually reduce power consumption, paper waste, and greenhouse gas emission. 

Alongside the three Komori presses, Prakash Packagers’ production facility is equipped with a string of other Heidelberg machines, a Konica Minolta digital production press, HP DesignJet PS printer, and an array of pre-press systems from Kodak as well as a host of post-press binding equipment from Welbound, Electromec, etc. “Marking quality as hallmark of our tradition, we keep upgrading our machine portfolio at times to maintain efficiency and excellence in our print outputs and end-products,” Bhargava said.

With a vision of perfection, Prakash Packagers perfectly meets every customer’s commercial printing needs of end-products, such as posters, calendars, leaflets, magazines, books, business cards, folders, large-format graphics, etc. According to Bhargava, the company manages everything in-house when it comes to processing print and production of every single end-product—right from studio designing, composing, and proofreading, up to printing, packaging, and distribution.