Blue Star Installs Four of Fuji Xerox’s iGen 5

Blue Star Group is installing four of the machines, Fuji Xerox’s latest iGen 5 press at two of its locations. Blue Star, a division of parent company IVE Group, will install the new Xerox iGen5 printers in its Blue Star Print and Blue Star Direct sites. According to Blue Star, before opting for the iGen 5 model…

Demo Centre for FUJIFILM at Mumbai

FUJIFILM has recently opened its first Demo Centre at Mumbai. The centre is designed to give a real time experience of the company’s large-format printing prowess, demonstrating a portfolio of its high-end printers including the latest version of Acuity LED 1600. In addition to the company’s unconventional range of large-format printers, the first demo centre…

Xerox iGen 5 Press Enabled With Fifth Color Station

Xerox has recently introduced its next generation of its iGen digital production printer family, the iGen 5 Press with a fifth color station and multiple print-speed choices. The high-end digital production color market will expanding from around 60 billion pages today to 87 billion pages globally by 2018, offering a significant growth opportunity for print-service providers….

Epson Reveals High-Speed Large Format Range

Epson has revealed a new ‘high-speed’ colour production printers to the market to add to its Surecolor range, featuring a ten colour ink set and four levels of black. According to Epson, the newly launched range is slated to target commercial printers, professional photographers and fine art and print service providers. The two printers Surecolor SC-P10070 and…

Canon C700 Enables Delhi’s Satyam to Print 15,000 Sheets Per Month

 New Delhi-based Satyam Grafix acquired  the new Canon ImagePress C700, since then it has been producing 15,000 sheets per month. Though Rakesh Bansal, owner of Satyam Grafix, said he finalised on the Canon because it suited the company’s budget, he now cannot stop gushing about the benefits. “The press is fully loaded, equipped with spectrophotometer…

Heidelberg Sets New Benchmark

Sri Laxmi Ganapathi Images installs first Heidelberg Speedmaster SM 74 four-colour press and Suprasetter A 106 CtP in Andhra Pradesh as Onyx Printers, Bangalore installs the first Heidelberg Speedmaster SX-74 in India. Bangalore installation Pradeep and Channabasappa with the brand new Heidelberg Speedmaster SX 74 four-colour press. Onyx Printers is the first company in India to…

Kolhapur based Premier Printers Equip Kodak Trendsetter

Kolhapur based Premier Printers, have recently equipped its pre-press unit with a Kodak Quantum Trendsetter 800 platesetter. The firm in southern Maharashtra which caters to the commercial, as well as packaging segment, opted for the machine in December 2015. Rohan Shirke of Premier Printers said, “Earlier we had an entry level Fuji Thermal CTP which…

New Plant for Khemka Containers in Andhra Pradesh

Khemka Containers (KCL) based in Faridabad, will set up a Rs 100 crore unit in Sri City, Andhra Pradesh. The directors of the company​, ​Rajeev Khemka, Sanjay Khemka and Ashish Khemka made the announcement after breaking ground on the new project on 31 January 201​​6. The plant, which is expected to be operational by October…

New Kool Look for Amul Kool from Wow Design

Wow Design creates a new packaging and gave a brand makeover to Amul Kool Milkshake Range. “The packaging has been redesigned to define the cool factor, which was lacking in the current design and hence the product could not effectively connect with its target audience”, according to Deepti Kshirsagar, Founder- Director, Wow Design. In line…

2015’s Top 10 Innovations in Print Industry

  New digital label presses highlighted the event, Labelexpo and made it clear that digital printing is going to be a seminal technology in package and label printing. But despite 2015 being the year of the digital label press, technological innovations abounded across all packaging segments and print methods, spanning presses, finishing equipment and just…