The All India Federation of Master Printers (AIFMP) hosted a full day conference Adoptech2023 on 9 September in Pune. The theme of the conference which was attended by 200 delegates was: Technology adoption is critical to the future of the printing and packaging industry.
A roadshow to promote Pamex 2023 was held in Pune on 23 December 2022. The event saw more than 400 visitor registrations from Pune and the nearby areas.
The virus is still in the air. Yet, the printing industry refuses to wallow in the doom and gloom of the past. Instead, as the New Year dawns, the industry is surging ahead to make up for last year’s losses, and add some neat profit as well. But what about the ground reality? Are we really ready? PrintWeek probes
That Covid-19 had a huge impact on the printing industry is an understatement. What happened in 2020 was simply unprecedented, especially after 24 March, when the country went into a lockdown. It was indeed disconcerting to see an industry, which works 24/7 (in most cases) shut shop for an extended period. This, of course, had a cascading effect on the profit margins. Yet, instead of crying over the spilt milk, the industry picked itself up as soon as the locked opened, and went to business with a renewed vigour. That was last year. With the dawning of a New Year, the industry looks optimistic, not just to make up for the losses it incurred in 2020,
It s almost eleven months since India went into lockdown in an attempt to slow the spread of Covid-19. It resulted in a large and well-documented drop in work almost overnight for many print firms. On the occasion of Printers’ Day celebrations of 24 February,
PrintWeek speaks about the few upsides of the situation. Tirthraj Joshi, Dhruv Chokshi and Vinay Ratnakar Kalaskar
Tirthraj Joshi, the owner of Shrikrishna Arts in Pune said, Quite frankly, the Covid situation didn t affect our print status much. My print firm has been struggling for survival since the past 24 to 36 months. However the sudden lockdown affected the industry.