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With the commercial and publication business at an all time low, PS Rajan of St Francis Press is making moves that will help him stay relevant in the print business. Words: Noel D’Cunha
When I met PS Rajan, 63,
I had asked him to name one print innovator from history he wanted to meet. He replied, William Carey, the cobbler, who made fonts for more than 20 Indian languages for the first time in Calcutta, and printed the
Bible.
Rajan shares with me, The Baptist missionary William Carey appointed an East India Company employee Charles Wilkins and the ironsmith Panchanan Karmakar as well as his nephew Manohar. All of them were employed by Carey in order to develop a set of
The Surat-based company responds to the changes in the traditional print mindset in Gujarat, with a thoughtful new work process.
Read more about Birju Talati and his focus on print integration in the Sunday Column
Just when the textile industry in the city of Surat was preparing for the wedding season, Covid-19 struck. The city, known as the hub of textile printing, which had supplied clothing worth Rs 10,000-crore a couple of months ago before the lockdown, was waiting for the payment to arrive, found close to Rs 9,500-crore stuck, with no possibility of it coming any soon.
“Our primary business is catering to print requirement of textile industry. Since it was severely affected during the pandemic, there was little work,” says Birju Talati, partner at Metro Printers in Surat. “But during Diwali and the subsequent marriage season things have improved, more than expected.”
Mumbai-based Taco Visions shows that it s urge to innovate remains undimmed.
The Sunday Column looks at Taco s Varanasi airport project which indicates how 3-D art is going to become part of the air traveller s ecosystem
Prints displayed (includes signages) in public places like transit waiting areas, airports, commercial and retail locations, highways, walkways, buildings, medical treatment waiting areas and even on vehicles, are designed to attract our attention, an attempt to convey a message to the audience it is intended. While most use digital or screen printed graphics on vinyl, Mumbai’s Taco Visions uses the 3D lenticular technology, a kind of eye-catching animation or a 3D perspective on a picture.
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.