Recently, CDC Printers added 50,000-sqft of additional working space to its existing facility, plus purchased a number of equipment, especially for the post-press segment. These include two Bindlines with Freedom 5K perfect binding, Signa Gatherers and Trimit trimmers from Impel; one Eterna automatic foil stamping machine from Suba; one automatic flute laminator from Robus; one pre-owned case-maker from Kolbus; and one pre-owned 4+4 SM102 perfecting machine from Heidelberg.
As an entire segment of the business sat idle, there were some like Nutech Print Services, which were able to overcome the disruptions, dig deep into their resources, including human resources, to resume their activities, soon after the announcement of the first lockdown in the last week of March 2020.
Pragati’s samples were all large-format books with multiple finishing options, printed on a Komori Lithone 740, on different specialty papers of varied grammages. Pre-press is Esko workflow and Kodak Trendsetter CTP in 250-lpi. The run length varies from 500 to 25,000 copies.
Many companies lost the equivalent of more than a crore a month during the pandemic-afflicted months as the business was racked by exceptional costs (cancelled orders, no payments, and in one instance, missing freight). This meant many businesses across the country hit rock bottom.