Grafica News

PRS Permacel new plant houses Cylinder Press-WicketDryer

Mon, 9 Jan 2012 16:28:37 +0530

In an interview, Shirish D. Bapat, General Manger, Manufacturing, PRS Permacel Pvt. Ltd., shares his experience in industrial screen printing, company’s achievements, his views on Grafica, role of education, DMI et al. Here is the excerpt from his interview:

What are your company’s key strengths?
We have a long history of innovation. Closeness to customers, Inhouse R&D facility, Flexible manufacturing systems, implementation of various quality, safety and environment systems, are some of our are core strengths. Since we have coating and printing lines under one umbrella, we are largely a self reliant organization. Of course, people are our main strength. We have a combination of old and experienced people blending with new and enthusiastic employees.

Why does your company aggressively invest in screen printing technology?
That is because we are one of the major players in automotive graphics. To meet the growing market demand we have keep investing in technology.

We entered graphics printing for automobile somewhere during 1985-90. At the time M-cycle market was just emerging in India

Your views on the growing use of automotive graphics and labels on 2/4 wheelers:
The market is set for further growth. Currently, 2 wheeler markets are riding very high and there is still lot of potential. That is why automobile giants are penetrating more on the rural market. If the rural infrastructure is developed well, the demand will further go up.

Share your experiences of dealing with Grafica:
Dealing with Grafica has been a good experience. I personally know them since its founder’s time when they used to manufacture PCBs. Our active association with Grafica and Bhargav Mistry started in 2005.

Bhargav is an innovative and technically sound person in screen printing industry with cooperative nature. He has been instrumental in developing new machines and concepts in India.

I must also add that he is also instrumental in bringing the rich knowledge of international experts such as Mike Young and Michel Caza through his close association with them.

I believe business relationship does not end with the purchase of a quality machine... I really admire Mr Bhargav Mistry for his technical competency his openness to share knowledge.

One more noteworthy contribution of Bhargav is the establishment of DMI.

In what way DMI has benefited your company?
In the past our staff had attended their 3-day workshop and back in work, they shared their rich experience at DMI. The impressive knowledge helped them to sharpen their skills in screen printing.

In my view, DMI is doing a commendable contribution for the development of screen printing Industry in India. I wish the government should recognize DMI.

Your views on Grafica’s screen printing machines including Grafica’s Cylinder Press:
We have employed different mix of screen printing machines based on our production requirement which varies size wise and quantity wise.

• The Quality of their machine is good.
• They are world class machines
• The machines deliver good results
• They are offered at competitive price
• All coupled with quality service by their technicians.

Do you consider Grafica is providing import substitute solutions?
Yes it is. They are doing very good job. They have mastery in creating new machines. All their works are commendable.

What about Grafica’s service?
By service per se I do not relate only to the machine. It is not just the quality of machine which is important. If a quality machine works perfectly then the connection almost ends there. Today understanding customers’ requirement especially in OEM segment is very essential. We follow the same principle in our dealing with our customers. Similarly, when our supplier understands our requirement, we get really delighted. That’s the case with Grafica.

Your views on screen printing in India:
Screen printing is the most competitive way and most preferred choice for printing automotive graphics and labels for outdoor suitability. I do not think India is lacking in anything as compared with other South East Asian countries where two wheeler markets are very strong. We are at par with global standards and very competitive.

Considering the intricacy of good print, the science and technology involved in it, screen printing today is very advanced and in depth, it is not superficial.

Your thoughts on solvent vs UV:
Currently in our segment UV has not made much progress hence we have to depend on solvent medium. I think screen printing industry should work more towards going green.

Your views on clean room environment in screen printing industry:
We give top priority to this aspect because our customers are from automobile industry. In fact we are also a TS 16949 accredited company. This is an ISO Technical Specification, required to be met by all auto component suppliers and we are also following it.

Environment and safety measures:
We have world class fire fighting systems in place. The local fire brigade unit sends their newly joined personnel to our factory every month for training, using the best fire fighting system in our factory. They say ours is ‘the best facility in the locality’. We are even ready to help our neighbor in case of any fire emergency.

On the environmental front, to reverse the impact, we have taken up several measures by creating clean and green environment in and around the new factory. This way we are trying to protect the environment. Our emission level is much below the MPCB norms. Our plant is considered to be one of the most safe and best plants in Additional Ambernath MIDC area.

In a ten minute safety talk session we cover various workplace safety lessons. Even we teach them on electrical and driving safety, health and hygiene. When you train your staff in safety and hygienic work culture, it is quite natural that he follows and shares it with his family members.

What is the driving force behind your company’s success?
Closeness to customers backed up by innovation and flexible manufacturing approach. And we are a ‘people-driven’ company, we consider ‘PEOPLE’ as our asset and strength.

Yet another digital printer prefers screen printing

Sat, 7 Jan 2012 17:07:33 +0530

There is a growing trend of digital print solution providers investing in screen printing machine. A point in case is the Blue Diamond Printographics, Namakkal, Tamil Nadu.

Having invested heavily in digital printing (one eco solvent and two inkjet digital printing machines), the company’s proprietor Aruldass A. well thought of investing in Grafica’s 30” x 40” Cam-Shell with inline UV to offer cost effective high volume indoor/outdoor print solutions especially to educational institutes and corporate in south India. Cam-Shell is used for printing advertising / publicity materials on foam board and flute board.

Their sister concern Diamonds Art Cutting and Stickers offers flexo printing, eco solvent printing, reflective stickers, signage products to MNCs, pharma companies, store chains, shopping malls, telecom companies in Tamil Nadu. The company has two printing units with a total floor space of about 6000 sq.ft.

After the initial success, Aruldass is now exploring other lucrative applications of screen printing process. “We are carrying out R&D to produce designer automobile graphics (decals) for Heavy Commercial Vehicles and Light Commercial Vehicles,” says the dual print solution provider.

Lured to screen printing:
As a digital player, his entry into screen printing was quite unexpected and admirable. Two years’ ago, he received an order from a food and beverage MNC for printing their logo and company name on tiles. These tiles were to be fixed on walls at Tea Stall for branding purpose.

“Initially we used to outsource this job, but later we felt why not print it in-house. Yes we needed a screen printing machine to undertake this task. Our search on the internet led us to Grafica. Although we bought their machine only to print tiles, soon we realized that it can also be used for printing advertising materials on foam and flute boards,” recalls Aruldass. “However, after attending DMI’s workshop in February 2010, I came to know about other lucrative applications of screen printing. After seeing an array of samples in their library, I realised that screen printing is a versatile process and I am exploring some of the unique applications to make my investment worth.”

Grafica was the only choice!
Having bought digital presses from renowned brands, it was his understanding that cost and quality should not only be the deciding factors for buying a screen printing machine. “Since it was a capital investment, we strongly felt that besides quality machine, the supplier should also have excellent track record in rendering technical support and knowledge on long term basis. And Grafica stood on the top on all counts.”

“I am now practically experiencing what I earlier perceived about Grafica’s technical support. Despite language problem they gave us the necessary training and continuous support. I can now proudly say that Grafica is the best brand,” asserts Aruldass.

God pictures screen printed by Kothapalli glows in dark

Fri, 6 Jan 2012 18:08:59 +0530

God pictures screen printed by Kishore Kothapalli, Hyderabad glows in dark. That's what Hyderabad based Shree Varnish & UV Prints has adopted a new technique in UV special effects after inspired by DMI’s workshops. He now screen prints magical ‘glow in the dark’ God pictures.

Other than God pictures his company extensively uses Grafica's Nano-Print plus for incorporating glitter, 3D reflective, fragrance, glow in the dark and other UV special effects on offset printed jobs. Besides undertaking job work, he also regularly prints Shirdi Sai Baba’s pencil-sketch poster with glow in dark effect which are supplied to photo frame shops at Shirdi Shrine and other cities. “Since it is a religious job, I keep two rupees aside for every poster sold and the money is donated for charity purpose, especially in aid of BPL school children,” reveals Kishore.

Until the advent of Nano-Print plus, he had been regularly visiting printing exhibitions to invest on a economical as well as simple screen printing machine. “But I did not find anything like Nano-Print plus. I want to tell from my heart that Grafica's Nano-Print plus is the best machine I have ever seen” says Kishore.

Excel Art Mumbai explores special effects in screen printing

Thu, 5 Jan 2012 17:48:12 +0530

After working for nearly two decades in many top Advertising agencies, Zulfikar Hussain and his other half Parwana, have recently embarked on designing and speciality screen printing with a style. Their creative minds visualized endless possibilities in screen printing especially with the advent of UV special effects.

Set up 3-year ago, their company Xcel Arts (soon to be changed to Excel Arts), has recently deployed Grafica’s Nano Print plus and Nano-UV housed at their 900 sq. ft. printing unit, located in central Mumbai. 

 Excel Arts offers custom made wedding cards, invites for momentous occasions, special corporate stationery, paper bags, promo scratch cards, among others. “We are largely catering to Ad agencies, Bollywood, NRIs and large corporate. We have also developed market in US, UK market targeting NRIs,” reveals Zulfikar. “Our USP is our Ad agency experience and creative background. We offer only specialized print service and in wedding card segment, we do not undertake assignments with less than Rs.50000 budget,” asserts Zulfikar.

He had worked in Lintas, Raka, Urja, Forefront, Image Ads for over 15 years. He had also worked with ‘Cricket Talk of World Tel’ as Print Production manager for two years. On the other hand Parwana had worked with Lintas for almost 15 years.

“We want to deliver extra-ordinary prints and delight every customer by creating new ideas, designs which will be backed by perfect blend of UV special effects. Even I screen printed my multi color visiting cards with special effects. When I showed this card to my friends in the industry, they could not believe that by screen printing process we can produce such impressive photo-realistic prints. In another case, I made a birthday card of a kid on which I had incorporated glow-in-dark UV effect. The kid liked the card so much and he would show it to everybody for almost 10-15 days saying that it was a magic piece. I think with screen printing we can really create magic.”

An offset printer invest in screen printing for value addition

Wed, 4 Jan 2012 18:47:54 +0530

An Offset printer creates Good Impression on packaging with value addition through screen printing

Small or big, offset printers are now increasingly realizing the need to have an in-house screen printing unit with complete system for all operational convenience. Good Impression one such offset printing house which has recently installed Grafica’s Nano-Premier League (NPL plus) to incorporate value addition on offset printed jobs and pharma packaging.

Good Impression’s 3200 sq ft printing unit at Dombivli in Thane district, some 50 km north of Mumbai, houses 4, 2 and 1 color offset presses, complete pre press, post press/finishing facilities. The printing house offers all types of commercial printing especially to Educational, pharma (packaging), agricultural sector in Maharashtra.

“We had couple of issues which compelled us to set up in-house screen printing unit. Earlier we used to get the spot UV work done in Mumbai which attracted Octroi levy and logistically it was convenient,” states Jayprakash D. Khandekar of Good Impression who is a diploma holder from GIPT Mumbai (1968 batch).

While he was scouting for a screen printing machine, he received one strong recommendation from none other than his industry friend, Mr. Gurjinder Singh of Bonnie Textiles, Ullasnagar, one of the value customers of Grafica.

“Following which he visited Grafica’s factory and his friend’s recommendation proved to be absolutely right. “Indeed dealing with Grafica’s team was a good professional experience as their interaction was coated with technical knowledge and transparency,” recalls Jayprakash. “We bought NPL plus with confidence and today I can vouch that it is an innovative and fantastic system created by Grafica,” he emphasizes.

Jayprakash is assisted by his three nephews, viz, Prakash Sapre (nephew), Gaurav Khandekar and Vidyadhar Foujdar.

“We never had any low time in our business. We have had a steady growth, to be precisely 15-20% growth per annum in the last 4-5 years. However, off late we realized the need to embrace screen printing to offer value addition and delight our customers,” says Jayprakash.

Meghalaya Assembly Print Unit first govt press to buy NPL

Tue, 3 Jan 2012 20:21:03 +0530

And now a state government assembly printing press has installed a modern screen printing setup. The news maker is the Meghalaya Assembly Printing Press located in Shillong, the capital of hilly state Meghalaya on the north-east region. The Press has recently embarked on automation by deploying Grafica’s Nano Premier League (NPL), a complete screen printing package.

The Press, employing over 150 persons, has an offset press, pre press and post press facilities. The Printing Press undertakes printing of all official stationery such as special visiting cards and letterheads for elected representatives, officers, special envelopes and other stationery required for the Assembly sessions as these cannot be outsourced on grounds of confidentiality. Some of these stationery items are made special by incorporating spot UV and special effects.

Recently two of their senior staff members attended DMI’s 3-day workshop and they plan to depute rest of the team members. “Based on our experience at DMI, I feel through screen printing we can add some extra touch and feel effect to print to make it attractive. Although our printing jobs are not commercial, who ever receives our printed stationery - be it envelopes, visiting cards or letterheads - would certainly feel something good about our State government. I think value addition can also be used to enhance the image of an organization,” explains Robinson Sangama, who is screen printing unit in-charge at Meghalaya Assembly Printing Press.

He was instrumental in setting up a screen printing unit in their Press. “We had 3 manual screen printing tables. Since it was cumbersome activity we felt the need for automation to increase efficiency,” asserts Robinson. “Our creative team used to get bored of low-productive, labour intensive manual screen printing system. Now we create new designs to experiment various possibilities in screen printing including ‘close to digital’ multi color printing.”

While searching for a screen printing machine on the net, Robinson and his superior, B.D.A.Sangama, Head of the Printing Press, encountered Grafica’s website. “By viewing their comprehensive website, we could gauge that Grafica is an internationally reputed manufacturer of quality screen printing machines hence we had no second thought,” asserts Robinson. “Since we are in a remote hilly area, we decided to go for their combo offer NPL, instead of buying only a screen printing machine so that we did not have to depend on outside agency for screen making,” says Robinson.

“We are now quite satisfied with NPL which is user friendly. With NPL we are able to deliver quality prints with speed. Our team members are quite enthusiastic the way NPL system works.”

“We are quite lucky to attend DMI workshop and learn the new age screen printing techniques using various UV tricks. We learnt how to explore automation to our maximum benefit. We will try to apply all the ideas that we learnt at DMI workshop. We are grateful to Grafica for such a wonderful platform.”

“DMI's Director Bhargav Mistry is professional in his attitude and accurate in knowledge delivery” concludes Robinson Sangma

Print Specialities delivers quality industrial labels using NPL

Mon, 2 Jan 2012 19:39:02 +0530

Bengaluru based Print Specialities has recently invested in Grafica’s Nano Premier League (NPL) to offer quality industrial labels and stickers.

“I would say Grafica has really offered a reliable comprehensive package (NPL) which has solved all our major problems which we used to face earlier frequently. Grafica's NPL is very affordable screen printing solution and very high quality. With NPL we are able to produce labels with consistent quality; our cost of production has drastically gone down we have also reduced our wastage” says Mohan.

Set up in 1997, Print Specialities is engaged in printing stickers and labels using various substrates such as paper, PVC, polyester and polycarbonate. They also produce garment price tags, thermal transfer labels, heat transfers (tag less label and T-Shirt). Besides garment industry, the company largely caters to electronics, logistics and automobile sectors.

Mr Mohan, an M.Tech from IIT-Delhi, worked for 16 years before taking over the family business started by his wife Mrs. Rama. She now owns M.R Labels which is engaged in the production of barcode labels in roll form. Both the printing units are spread over a floor space of 4500 sq.ft. Their son Uday, a BE in Mechanical will also join the family business.

Owing to typical problems associated with manual screen printing, they had to switch over to automation. According to Mohan, the benefits of automation are plenty: More reliable quality, less supervision hence tension free work environment, rejection is within permissible limit, higher productivity is possible. “Overall efficiency and image of our printing unit also increases.”

SS Screen Printers prints non-woven bags using Nano-Print

Sun, 1 Jan 2012 20:07:26 +0530

The staff at Mumbai based S.S. Screen Printers are fascinated with the way Nano-Print works, giving them that extra comfort while printing non-woven bags at 850+ impressions per hour on full auto mode.

With Nano-Print they produce non-woven bags, shopping bags, stickers and value added PVC and paper boxes for garment industry.

Santosh Narkar proprietor of S.S. Screen Printers says: “With Nano-Print our quality has improved and production has gone up drastically without requiring much physical effort. At the end of day we return home with peace of mind which was not case when we had manual screen printing.”

Akash Enterprises prints corporate stationery on Nano-Print

Sun, 1 Jan 2012 19:03:49 +0530

Kumara Velan and his business-cum-life partner Rinky is now proud owners of Grafica’s Nano-Print. The couple runs a screen printing unit in Bengaluru under the name Akash Enterprises.

With Nano-Print they produce custom made wedding cards, special invites, garment tags, corporate gifts and leather products for their corporate clients.

Earlier they used to get these jobs done from manual screen printers. “Owing to delay in delivery and lack of control over quality, we felt enough is enough. It was mere coincidence or we call it a sheer luck that we saw a Nano-Print being unloaded at a digital printing press known to us,” recalls Rinky.

“Back home we immediately logged on to Grafica’s website. We got attracted to Nano-Print after watching its video. However, sorry to say, we had still some apprehension in our mind until we visited Grafica’s stall at an Exhibition in Chennai. Its design and orange-grey color was quite attractive and their machines looks very impressive.

“Over the years I have visited many exhibitions but I never seen such a compact and high quality machine at affordable price. Considering the power cut in Bengaluru, Nano-Print has many advantages e.g. it does not require compressor which consumes lot of power. The machine can also run on a small generator if required. Due to its speed and accuracy we save lot of time in production and avoid rejections.

Whatever Grafica claimed in their Nano-Print catalogue, it delivers. I think Grafica has rightly targeted small & medium sized screen printers like us by offering us this great product Nano Print.”

About the young couple:
After running an offset printing unit in Bengaluru, Kumara was lured to a gulf job and worked in Emirates Islamic Bank for few years. On the other hand, Rinky was worked in a leading Indian bank and later joined an advertising agency. While returning from a conference in Dubai she befriended with Kumara. Later, their friendship turned into a courtship and a year later they got married. After marriage both worked in Dubai-based banks for few years. The couple decided to extend their life-partnership to business as well and returned to India and started printing business afresh. Now they are tapping the UAE market since they have many friends / close contacts there.

Grafica bring awareness in screen printing @CCTTE Mumbai

Mon, 26 Dec 2011 21:47:03 +0530

Continuing its commitment to promote automation in screen printing in smaller cities and towns, Grafica actively took part in Cross Country Table Top Exhibitions (CCTTE) organized by Screen Printers' Association of India (SPAI) in association with FESPA in Mumbai at three locations.

As usual DMI's screen printed sample gallery was the centre of attraction. Visitors spent lot of time in understanding the techniques of various UV special effects printing.

DMI displays special effect screen printed samples @Printex

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 20:51:22 +0530

DMI's huge collection of special effects screen printed sample gallery was a show stoppers in the recently concluded 4-day PRINTEX exhibition in Mumbai from 15-18 December 2011.

Looking a those samples visitor were quite stunned and closely interacted with Team Grafica to understand the special techniques used to produced such creative screen printing.

During the show Grafica demonstrated complete range of Nano series of machines (Nano Premier League - NPL & NPL plus) to visitors who came from all over Maharashtra, Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka.

Aastha Creations expands with 2 Stop Cylinder Presses

Mon, 12 Dec 2011 19:59:16 +0530

Winner of many national and international award in the Ceramic Decals, Aastha Creations (a sister concern of Fine Art Decorators, New Delhi founded by Shri Umesh Jain) expands with 2 Stop Cylinder Presses and 2 inline Wicket Dryers from Grafica which are installed at their modern plant in Bahadurgarh, Haryana. This plant is completely air conditioned with humidity control to maintain clean room environment to meet international quality standards in screen printing.

The famous Jain brothers in ceramic industry, Rajiv & Sanjiv Jain explain why their company preferred only Grafica’s Stop Cylinder Press to meet the growing demand in ceramic decals specialized in God Pictures.

“After using a dozen of Grafica's semi automatic screen printing machines over two decades, we are completely satisfied using their technology in our ceramic decal production and according to me Grafica is the only company in the world which is so rich with technical knowledge in screen printing. This is one of the reasons we prefer to work with them forever," says Sanjiv Jain.

“In view of these aspects, I was well aware that I would require strong technical support on regular basis and it is our experience that Grafica is very capable to offer the best technical support which many of the commercially oriented suppliers do not bother.

“Since we have more than 6000 designs of various God and Goddesses it is difficult to produce ceramic decals of such wide range using semi automatic machines even if we still invest few more such machines.

“So we felt enough is enough and we immediately decided to invest initially with 2 Stop Cylinder Presses with 2 inline wicket dryers, concludes Sanjiv Jain.

Manohar Filaments exports high quality garment trims

Sun, 11 Dec 2011 15:17:03 +0530

When Mr. Bhupinder Jain, Director of New Delhi based Manohar Filaments Pvt. Ltd, one of the top five players in garment trims, was planning to modernize their screen printing set up, he wanted to buy only high quality screen printing machines from a reliable supplier who can also render excellent technical support. And Grafica was the preferred choice among the two shortlisted companies.

Today, their huge centralized screen printing setup houses a host of three 30” x 40” Cam-Shell and two 18” x 24” Two-Post Pillar semi automatic screen printing machines along with complete in-house screen making setup from Grafica.

Sanjay Jain, GM, Operations - Barhi Plant, Manohar Filaments

Established in 1986, Manohar Filaments (named after its founder Manoharlal Jain), is a reputed garment trim conglomerate with phenomenal growth and success, driven by its Director Bhupinder Jain. The ISO 9001-2000 certified company which began its journey with only 3 people, today employs over 700 people with 4 huge manufacturing plant. “Very soon our 5th plant which will house a dying facility will be ready in few months,” says Bhupinder Jain.

Bhupinder Jain, an entrepreneur filled with humility and simplicity, takes care of administration, finance, purchase and printing. His son Amit, designated as CEO, looks after production while his brother Surinder Jain is the Marketing Director.

For operational reasons, the printing unit was relocated to Barhi in Haryana which houses Grafica’s screen printing machines and complete screen making equipments. This is where heat transfer labels (for tagless and T-shirt), garment hand tags, price tags and fabric labels are screen printed.
 The company also offers packaging solution to food and pharma sector. It has received ‘BRC/IOP’ Standard, a food packaging certification issued by British Retail Consortium Institute of Packaging, UK. The company has 6 and 4 color Heidelberg offset machines with full-fledged designing studio.

Manohar Filaments’ wide range of product portfolio includes: woven and printed labels, heat transfers (tagless and T-shirts applications), value added hangtags and price tickets, embroidered labels, badges and patches, barcodes stickers and various other accessories, catering to many global brands. 80% of their revenue comes from garment trims with 35% share of direct export and 65% from indirect export. “Our export market covers Bangladesh, Turkey, Vietnam, Indonesia, SriLanka and other neighboring countries,” informs Mr. Jain. They are also exploring US & European market to increase their export business.

The company made entry into screen printing in 2000 and at peak they had 15 manual screen printing tables to produce garment labels. But the technological revolution taking place in screen printing sphere drew them fast towards automation since 2005.

Learn how to achieve 511 solid color in 9 impressions @DMI

Sat, 10 Dec 2011 12:50:50 +0530

During the recently concluded 3-day workshop on 1-2-3 December 2011, DMI demonstrated the unique technique how to produce 511 spot (solid) colors in just 9 impressions.

The workshop was houseful with 56 participants from all over India including printers from Meghalaya and Manipur.
 “This technique was developed by my Guru Michel Caza and he was quite generous to teach me when I was undergoing my training in his company Graficaza at France. He named this technique “Caza Superimposition” where I remember he used to achieve 64 spot colors with only 6 impressions. But this research at DMI went even further where I developed how to achieve 511 spot color by just adding 3 more impressions only,” said Bhargav Mistry, who spearheaded the live demo which involved 12 semi-automatic screen printing machines (9 Nano-Print & 3 Nano-Print plus) with several inline UV curing machines.

The reason for engaging 12 machines simultaneously in this workshop was to complete the demonstration in few hours and show the final products in two days and to make sure nothing is left out in practicals and theory sessions. So altogether we had to prepare around 35 screens to demonstrate the unique Calendar and Table Matt with Tea Coasters in a 3-day workshop which is quite exhaustive otherwise.

“In this workshop we screen printed around 100 different spot (solid) colors with few metallic spot colors on Grafica's Calendar 2012 with just 9 impressions only. Later we also demonstrated around 14 new UV special effects on the same calendar. In all this precious Grafica's Calendar 2012 has 23 impressions (9 solid colors and 14 various new special effects), one of the special effect out of that was UV MIRROR INKS, otherwise just imagine to print more than a 100 special spot (solid) colors with 100 different screens for each color would be a nightmare for any screen printer because it not practical to stock and manage so many special colors.” he adds.

Learns 'The Caza Superimposition' technique at DMI in our forthcoming workshop. This technique has a huge potential in many applications if explored well for e.g.:

1. Calendars
2. Wedding Cards
3. Dairies
4. Books, Notebooks & Stationery
5. School bags
6. Toys and Games
7. Fancy stickers and labels
8. CD/DVD covers
9. Gifts and Novelties
10. Art & Serigraphy
11. Packaging
12. Packaging on Transparent Plastic
13. School Bags
14. Carry Bags
15. and can also compliment offset and digital printing

As usually in every workshop DMI always shows new concepts and ideas but there were many request from the participants to see live demo of how we screen printed Table Matt and Tea Coasters on a 2.7mm thick MDF board in our previous workshop. So we demonstrated this unique creativity again. The idea of using MDF for Table Matt and Tea Coasters can be a good opportunity for screen printers to sell such concepts in luxury hotels and high class restaurants as they would not mind in spending on such creative stuffs. One can also screen print Menu Cards using the MDF to offer complete concept.

Knowledge seeking and enthusiastic printers who want to learn more about creative screen printing can register their name online for the next workshop to be held on 2-3-4 February 2012.

TO REGISTER FOR DMI WORKSHOP - CLICK HERE

At DMI - LEARN MORE/EARN MORE...

Printplus combines design elements with UV special effects

Fri, 9 Dec 2011 17:51:02 +0530

Mumbai based Printplus which has recently installed Grafica’s Nano Premier League (NPL) plus, is all set to offer value added screen printing solutions to print buyers in and around Mumbai. The company is mainly focussing on wholesale wedding cards printing combining the fusion of attractive design elements and UV special effects as demonstrated at DMI workshops.

Following the recent installation of Grafica’s NPL plus package (Nano Premier League consisting of Nano Print plus, 24” UV, Nano-Screen Maker 5-in-1, Nano-Sharpener), Printplus has begun its journey in speciality screen printing. “The DMI workshop was very timely for our new venture and now we are applying some of the unique techniques of value addition taught at DMI workshop,” says Sandesh.

Besides special wedding cards, Printplus is also tapping garment tags market. They also offer speciality screen printing service to white goods industry and other corporates. “Our main focus is to produce best prints combining the design elements and UV special effects,” says Girish. “We also plan to buy a digital machine for offering digital prints on which we shall incorporate special effects done by screen printing process.”

Printplus was jointly set up by two experienced brains - Girish Kulkarni, an electrical engineer turned printing professionals with over 20 years experience and his friend Sandesh Rane, a graphic designer with over 25 years experience.

Girish who had worked in a large corporate got into screen printing in 1988 as a spare time activity and later started a full-fledged printing business along with his another friend. “The venture continued for over 15 years with fairly good growth," recalls Girish. He worked in an Ad agency for 4 years in Middle East during that period he got exposed to screen printing process. Being in printing he also got a chance to meet Grafica’s Middle East representative, Dilawar Dalwai of Al Mahir Printing Equipment Trading, Sharjah where he was introduced about Grafica. With gulf experience, back home in October 2010, he joined hands with his friend Sandesh, to start a screen printing unit especially to offer value added service with UV special effects.

Sandesh who had worked in a large Government of India Undertaking recalls of witnessing the excellent performance of Grafica’s large format screen making systems hence needed no introduction about Grafica. “Grafica machines are sturdy hence we needed no further market research,” says Sandesh.

Giving full marks to NPL plus, Girish says it is a very simple system with excellent design. We were fully satisfied with Grafica.”

Benefits of NPL:
“We wanted all the systems in place instead of depending on outside agencies for simple jobs such as screen making, etc. NPL is the best available cost effective option for our new venture. NPL synchronizes the entire screen printing process under one umbrella, right from screen making (5-in-1), printing, curing,” says Girish, an experienced electrical engineer-turned printing professional. “The greatest benefit of NPL is that it saves lot of time, speeds up delivery process and we can have full control on quality at all levels, at one place.”

“I want share one important aspect of Grafica, having dealt with many MNCs during my stint in Middle East, I could see the same amount of professionalism in their dealings with personal attention,” concludes Girish.