A closed-door roundtable forum was organised in March, as part of the silver jubilee celebrations of the Karnataka Offset Printers Association (KOPA). The following are the edited excerpts from the confabulations which saw six stalwarts share their factory updates, plus how they coped with the pandemic. Read more
The penultimate edition of the Pamex roadshow before the exhibition opens on 27 March was held in Bengaluru on 24 February, which also happened to be Printers’ Day. More than 200 delegates from the city as well as the nearby districts, such as Davangere, Hassan, Malanad, Tumkur, Udupi and Vijaypur attended the event.
Last week, Tushar Dhote shared his insights into how Pratham and Bobst have been designing and manufacturing equipment domestically to meet international quality standards. In this eighth edition of his column, Dhote tells why TechNova’s TOUCH centre is a classic example of the future of digital technologies in application mode
Printing calendars have always been in the realm of sheetfed offset process. Here the two companies with their combined know-how have displayed why flexo as a print process is a technology to reckon with.
This Sunday Column finds out how the calendar production was well put together
Flexo, a process long considered second to offset and gravure has made strident progress. DuPont, a formidable force in the flexo plate and platemaking technologies, has upped the ante. It has a long history of continuous innovation for flexo plates and platemaking systems to deliver high quality and high precision.
DuPont’s drive to push the flexo print process further made the company to explore printing its annual calendar using the technology it was far too familiar with. Two years, ago it collaborated with two of its long-term partners, Bengaluru-based companies – iTek Packz and Veepee Graphic Solutions, to produce calendars using flexography.