Meerut, Uttar Pradesh-based Arihant Publication, one of the country’s biggest educational book printers, has recently invested in a digital inkjet print-on-demand solution, knowzzleJet-DL, developed by Monotech Systems.
Kai Buentemeyer, director of Bindwel has experience of more than 30 years in manufacturing machines which have produced almost half the books consumed around the world. As the erstwhile CEO of Kolbus - a market leader in soft and hard cover adhesive binding machines - he has seen how publishing industry and book printing evolved globally, from close quarters. Buentemeyer has been visiting Indian book print firms and one multinational publisher in Delhi NCR. Dibyajyoti Sarma reports.
Arihant: Meerut’s printer Parvesh Jain at Arihant, shares the highlights of the past 23 years with Ramu Ramanathan about how the firm is bullish about books Parvesh Jain (r) with son Atishay (circled) Arihant currently publishes more than 3,000 titles
Ramu Ramanathan (RR): Let’s begin with the genesis of Arihant’s journey in the heart of the publishing hub of Meerut, which is well known for educational publishing…
Parvesh Jain (PJ): Arihant was established by my two brothers and I in 1997. While I oversee the complete printing operation, Deepesh and Reetesh look after content development and sales and finance respectively.
PrintWeek January 2021 issue available now After a difficult year, the January 2021 issue of
PrintWeek dares to take an optimistic view of the coming year, with stories and features that indicate a step away from the pandemic blues.
The cover story is a conversation between Ramu Ramanathan and Parvesh Jain of Meerut-based Arihant, a book printing major with more than 32 years of experience, which is still bullish about books.
In the Spotlight section, read how Madurai’s Sree Vinayaga Screens, a 42-year-old offset firm in Tamil Nadu, diversified into packaging in the tumultuous pandemic year.
The focus of the Top Picks series this month is platesetters, where we highlight 10 best selling pre-press products. These include BasysPrint UV-Setter; Esko CDI Spark; Kodak Trendsetter; Luxel thermal CTP; Krause PlateStream; Miraclon Kodak Flexcel NX; Suprasetter; ThermoStar; Agfa Advantage N Series and ThermoFlexX.