Canon Unveils its Latest ImagePress Series

Canon recently unveiled its ImagePress series, introducing of three new presses aimed at small-to-medium printers eyeing digital sheet fed machines. According to Canon, the three ImagePress printers which include the C850, C750 and C650 models are engineered the meet the requirements of small-to-medium commercial, franchise, in-plant, transactional and quick printers. The devices operate at print…

Konica Minolta enters the label printing market with bizhub PRESS C71cf

Konica Minolta Business Solutions India recently announced that the company will be leveraging its world-class printing technology by introducing a new digital solution for the label and packaging industry. The bizhub PRESS C71cf will benefit businesses as they transition from conventional printing to digital technology. This digital press is the first of many new products…

IPAMA elections for Governing Council completed

Bringing an end to the contentious last few months at IPAMA, the results of the Governing Council were announced on the 10 October. Facilitated by postal ballots, the election saw a very enthusiastic participation by the members in the voting. The team that was elected to  serve the term of 2016- 2018 is as below: Sl….

Zircon Technology Installs Third Omet Label Press

Zircon Technologies installed new Omet at one of the two plants in Dehradun. The company also has a plant in Chennai. Besides, the Omet presses, Zircon plants are equipped with five Mark Andy narrow web flexo printing presses in operations, a screen printing setup, plus Rotoflex inspection, slitting and rewind systems as part of its post-press…

Open up to the unexpected with the Absolut Facet limited edition bottle made by Ardagh

Ardagh Group has continued its productive and highly creative relationship with Absolut with the launch of its latest limited edition bottle, Absolut Facet. Ardagh designers and technologists, working closely with their customer, have achieved outstanding innovation in glass packaging by developing a new colour and shape to create this unique blue bottle featuring an asymmetric…

Zander Unleashes Zanpack Range of Boards

Zander, a German specialty paper producer is ex­pand­ing its port­fo­lio by Zanpack, a new range of boards with a spe­cial sur­face and ex­tremely pure white­ness, which will bring out the full in­ten­sity and bril­liance of print­ing inks. The decades-long ex­pe­ri­ence in per­fect­ing high-per­for­mance coat­ing tech­nolo­gies has been in­cor­po­rated into the de­vel­op­ment of the new board…

Konica Minolta Introduces Pro 1100, Production Printer

Konica Minolta, a well-known digital printing brand recently introduced its new Printing Press, the bizhub PRO 1100. Konica Minolta which has recently made a distinctive position in the Production Printing Market in India claims that the new bizhub PRO 1100 will outperform in all business environments. The bizhub PRO 1100 series offer a monochrome digital printing press making it ideal for…

Kamal Chopra at the helm of the new team at AIFMP

A new team that will govern AIFMP for the next one year was elected last weekend at the 233rd GC Meeting at Bengaluru hosted by the Karnataka State Printers ‘Association. Prof. Kamal Chopra, the Vice President (North) in the outgoing body was elected the President after an intense campaign that had for the first time seen…

Uflex Unveils ESL Aseptic Flexi-Pouch Machine for Packaging Milk

Uflex Limited, the flexible packaging materials and solution company, has launched ESL aseptic flexi-pouch machine for packaging milk that can extend the shelf life of the product upto 90 days. Uflex claims to be the only company in India to manufacture this kind of sophisticated machines. Milk is a perishable product and extremely susceptible to infestation by bacteria and other micro-organisms. Milk…

HP to Acquire Samsung Print for US$.05 Billion

HP Inc has locked its eyes on Samsung’s printer business after it agreed to purchase the division for US$1.05 billion. The deal may see HP enter the cutsheet A3 production print market in commercial print currently dominated by Konica Minolta, Canon, Fuji Xerox and Ricoh. The acquisition remains subject to regulatory approval, and is expected…