Grafica News

Direct-to-garment textile workshop at DMI was successful

Wed, 25 Apr 2012 12:06:55 +0530

“DMI’s first ever workshop on direct-to-garment screen printing was unique and memorable” say participants.

First of its kind in the world an exclusive workshop on direct-to-garment textile screen printing was successfully conducted by Bhargav Mistry, Director of DMI. Over 40 participants from textile and garment industry attended the Workshop which was held on 5,6,7 April 2012. Interestingly, barring couple of participants, rest all said that this was their first ever workshop on garment printing.

“I am fully satisfied with the outcome of our first textile workshop and overwhelmed to see the enthusiasm of the participants to learn advanced techniques in direct-to-garment textile screen printing,” said Bhargav while commenting on the objective of the workshop.

As a part of this comprehensive workshop, T-shirts with different designs and concepts were screen printed on nano-prinTex. The objective of live demo was to demonstrate printing techniques of process color (CMYK), spot process separation, high density, special effects (glitter, metallic, silver foil type effects), using plastisol and water-based inks. Apart from Direct-to-garment heat transfer screen printing was also demonstrated on Grafica's Nano-Print and Nano-Print plus.

In the theory sessions, Bhargav had covered the entire gamut of screen printing, such as file handling, designing, pre press, right method of screen making techniques needed to achieve higher quality in printing, techniques of direct-to-garment printing using advanced machines, drying/curing process, etc, use of high quality inks and chemicals, etc.

“I think numerous problems reflect how direct-to-garment screen printers suffered for so many years in the absence of correct guidance and right knowledge to take Indian garment export to a greater height,” said Bhargav.

Nova Publication Jalandhar goes creative in book printing

Wed, 25 Apr 2012 09:45:06 +0530

With Grafica’s Cylinder Press, Nova Publications goes creative in children’s book printing.

Nova Publications, the giant printing unit of Jalandhar based Evergreen Publications Group, has been successfully exploiting Grafica’s Cylinder Press with inline UV to extensively offer value added teaching aids and wide range of children’s books.

Their state of the art complete in-house screen printing unit also houses screen making set up supplied by Grafica which includes fabric stretching unit, emulsion coater, screen exposing and screen drying unit, washing booth and squeegee sharpener.

Nova Publications’ investment in advanced screen printing technology proves the growing importance of screen printing process for value addition on offset printed jobs such as books.

“The idea sparked in our mind when we saw DMI’s marvelous screen printed samples at Grafica’s stall in an exhibition in New Delhi. We tried to understand how UV special effects can be applied on offset printed job such as books. Soon we realized that there is tremendous scope to apply such special effects creatively on children’s books so that it becomes unique and more attractive to kids. After witnessing live demo of their cylinder press, we immediately made up our mind that a fully automatic screen printing technology is the most preferred choice for our kind of large book publishing set up,” recalls Amandeep Singla, Operational Manager at Evergreen Publications (India) Ltd.

“Now with Grafica’s Cylinder Press we are able to meet diverse needs of our customers,” says Amandeep adding that “screen printing process provides that extra edge to our book printing business because of its unique capabilities which is not available in any other printing processes. We can transform all our ideas into masterpieces of creativity because of UV special effect techniques and provide useful service to our valued customers by meeting their high expectations.”

“Besides cost factor, we preferred brand Grafica because of their reputation in the market. They offer satisfactory after sales service and technical support, and dealing with their team is a great experience. Undoubtedly, now their machine is delivering excellent results. Couple of our staff had also attended DMI’s workshop. We have also benefited from their extensive technical support, knowledge and training.”

It is heartening to note that in spite of huge offset printing facility, including two 8 colour machine, Nova Publications took a judicious step by investing in Grafica’s cylinder press to explore all the possibilities of UV special effects.

About Evergreen Publishing Group:
Since its inception in 1980, Evergreen Publications (India) Ltd, an ISO 9001:2008 certified publishing house, has grown as a leading publisher in CBSE / ICSE / State Boards school books and children books. They have sales and distribution network throughout India, south-east Asia and Gulf countries. The Group also exports books to Far East, South-East Asia, Middle East, Africa, Australia and Netherlands. They have also plans to set up their own network of overseas sales offices. They have nearly 2000 titles in circulation.

They have state of the art printing units, set up in 1996, comprising all advanced pre-press, press (two 8 colour offset – sheet fed and web), a gamut of post press facilities and design team, all housed in their plants spread over 10,532 sq. m.

The publishing Group comprises: Evergreen Publications (India) Ltd, Nova Publications, and Ved Parkash & Sons. Evergreen Publications publish and print a variety of titles. Their sister concern Nova Publication is engaged in printing of school books for State Boards, namely, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Rajasthan, Bhiwani, Nepal Boards. Ved Prakash & Sons is engaged in Note books and wide range of stationery printing items. They also offer complete commercial printing service to Bharti-Wal-Mart’s chain of whole-sale and retail stores (EasyDay and BestPrice).

The journey of Evergreen Publishing Group originally began in 1939 when its founder chairman Late Ved Parkash Chopra incorporated Ved Parkash & Sons to cater to the needs of students of then Punjab State Board. In 1980, Evergreen Publications Group was established. In 1984, they launched their most ambition plan of printing children books. Brands like - "CANDID" and "EVERGREEN" have become household names in north India.

Headquartered at Jalandhar with offices in New Delhi, the publishing Group is managed by its Board of Directors comprising: Mr.Sunil Chopra, Mr.Nirmal Chopra, Mr.Rajesh Chopra, Dr.Rajan Chopra, and Mr.Aman Chopra.

Stretch Fashions now produces garment packaging inhouse

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 04:38:03 +0530

There is a growing trend of garment manufacturers setting up their in-house screen printing unit for operational convenience. A point in case is Tirupur based Stretch Fashions, one of the leading manufacturer and exporters of various types of garments. They have procured Grafica’s 20” x 30” Cam-Shell, a heavy duty semi automatic screen printing machine to print PVC pouches and other packaging for garments, multi color heat transfers and price tags.

Earlier Stretch Fashions used to outsource these stuffs. To overcome delivery and quality issues they set up an in-house manual screen printing unit. However, the productivity and quality limitations in manual screen printing compelled them to immediately switchover to automation. Since there were scores of Grafica’s machines working in Tirupur market, they made no mistake and selected Grafica’s Cam-Shell.

“The vacuum bed and micro registration system of Grafica’s Cam-Shell is fantastic for multi color printing especially on PVC substrates of different micron thickness (15-20 microns). We are able to produce PVC packaging with fine quality prints,” informs P.K. Arokiaraj, in-charge of production unit. “Grafica’s Cam-Shell is really a multipurpose machine.

“We are completely satisfied with Grafica’s service; the machine is delivering excellent results even though we use it extensively in two shifts.

The company, established by S. Edison Devraj in 2003, manufactures and exports all types of inner-wears, garments, T-shirts. Their current export/domestic market ratio stands at 80:20

Creative Edge Jalandhar produces elegant sports goods

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 04:46:03 +0530

Creative Edge, Jalandhar, fields Two-Post Pillar & Nano-Print to produce elegant decals for sports goods.

As millions watch a thriller T20 cricket match, their unblinking eyes first tend to set on the glowing stickers on both sides of the bat than on the striking batsman who takes few moments before facing a fierce fast bowler.

If the sticker on the bat is more attractive, then there is greater chance of powerful branding of the bat, produced by leading sports goods manufacturers. However, the onus of producing such attractive decals for bats squarely lies on screen printers and this requires technology and expertise.

Though experts in producing decals for sports goods including decals for cricket bats, Jalandhar based Creative Edge first fielded Grafica’s Nano-Print and a Nano-Sharpener, to make an entry into automation. Following tremendous success in terms of productivity and quality improvement, the company recently procured Grafica’s Two-Post Pillar, a heavy duty semi automatic screen printing machine. Earlier the company had a manual screen printing set up comprising ten vacuum/manual screen printing tables.

With excellent technology from Grafica, Creative Edge has now established an edge over others in terms of producing high quality decals for sports goods industry at competitive price. “We have doubled our production besides bringing exceptional change in the quality of our decals,” asserts Pankaj Sharma, one of the partners of Creative Edge.

This is yet another case of customer’s confidence in brand Grafica. “Their constant support in the form of technical guidance enabled us to make optimal utilization of their both the machines for increasing productivity and quality thereby maximizing the return on investment,” says Pankaj.

Creative Edge was established by Pankaj and his younger brother Pradip with the guidance from their father, Suraj Sharma, a veteran screen printer with expertise in sports goods decals.

Suraj Sharma and his elder brother started a screen printing unit 35 years’ ago to produce decals for sports goods and stickers for foot wears; at peak time they had 12 tables employing over 40 persons. He claims that he was one of the pioneers in printing ‘black and white’ football when he had his unit in New Delhi. He says that slowly screen printing’s application spread across many other segment of the sports goods industry. “Today, one single bat requires 4-5 stickers as one would see during IPL match,” says Suraj Sharma.

Besides supplying decals majorly to sports goods industry in Jalandhar and Meerut, including some of leading sports brands, Creative Edge also manufactures stickers, polycarbonate labels, transfer labels for footwear, home appliances, electrical goods, tyre, etc.

DMI Workshop Feedback:

“We were fortunate to attend DMI’s workshops as a pre-cursor to our automation plan. After buying Grafica’s machines we could relate the knowledge practically. In fact we have noted down every points in our diary which we have preserved for reference purpose. For us DMI workshop was a big breakthrough.”

Pankaj & Pradip Sharma with Bhargav Mistry, Director DMI.

IT Engineers dreams to revolutionize wedding card market

Sun, 22 Apr 2012 05:41:15 +0530

With NPL, two IT engineers Dream to revolutionize wedding card market.

S. Dineshkumar (Right), a Master of Science in Computers from Chicago University (specialized in human-computer interactive technology), and his childhood friend K. Vasanthkumar (Left), a first class B.Tech from VIT, Vellore are now dreaming high to bring IT-revolution in wedding card market by exploiting the fast growing social media, internet culture and emergence of gen-next gadgets such as iPods.

However, to create a niche in the existing lucrative wedding card market, they procured Grafica’s Nano-Premier League (NPL). Before buying NPL, the entrepreneurs had attended DMI’s workshop to know the nuances of advanced screen printing process.

“DMI workshop was a phenomenal experience which gave us new impetus. We jointly gathered as much as knowledge we can and learnt few techniques of combining design elements with UV special effects to produce extra-ordinary wedding cards with less effort,” says Dinesh and Vasant, co-founders of DreamCards. They have two show rooms, one in Chennai ( Thiruvanmiyur ) and another at Thiruvallur outskirt of Chennai city.

‘DreamCards’ is an offshoot of their software product development company DreamApp. DreamApps offers websites, software application tools, design service, software application tools for social media such as Facebook, Orkut, mobiles, iPods.

The duo IT-engineers got into wedding card printing business despite stiff resistance from their parents. “We humbly requested our parents just to be patience for couple of years and allow us to continue with our new venture,” recalls Dinesh. They are now upbeat about their ambitious wedding card business.

They produce paper bags, gift/sweet boxes to accompany with wedding cards. “We are also working on ‘paper engineering’ concept to give magical touch to wedding cards,” says Dinesh.

DreamCards offers theme-based comprehensive wedding solutions that include a custom made website in the name of bride-grooms. A complimentary website is offered for cards above Rs.15 with minimum print order of 500 cards. The complimentary website will have only few basic features such as pdf/jpeg file upload, guest book, home page, etc.

“As per the budget, we offer additional value added services such as photo album, reminder notes, video clips, address book of invitees, email blast during the whole cycle of the wedding ceremony, theme invites with music, payment gateway for delivery of gift to bride-grooms right at the marriage hall (this facility is for non-attending invitees), event schedule, venue map, etc. The website will also have instant connection to social media sites such as Facebook,” explains Dinesh. “Since this concept is at its nascent stage, we are ambitious of promoting it aggressively first among our own friends and family circles.”

Dinesh continues: “Grafica’s Nano-Print is a perfect entry level machine for new entrants like us. With NPL, complete in-house screen printing set up, we are able to transform all our great ideas into beautiful wedding cards and establish our brand in the market well before the e-wedding trends picks up.”

Their DMI experience:

“Although we are IT engineers, we hardly had any knowledge in advanced screen printing. At DMI we got the glimpse of it with such basic knowledge on halftone printing, color management, UV special effects, etc. We were quite impressed with Bhargav’s passion for imparting advanced screen printing through his 3-day workshop that too free of cost. For us the workshop was ‘mission fulfilled’.”

Dinesh & Vasant

With NPL plus A&M Ahmedabad now offers value addition

Sat, 21 Apr 2012 05:10:36 +0530

With NPL plus Meeta Shah, A&M Enterprise commences her full-fledged post press unit in Ahmedabad.

As a part of setting up complete post press/print finishing facility in Ahmedabad, Meeta Shah has recently procured Grafica’s Nano-Premier League plus (NPL plus). She is the first woman entrepreneur in Gujarat to set up such a complete post press unit.

Her firm, A & M Enterprise has already commenced offering print finishing service to offset printers in Ahmedabad, such as UV special effects (spot UV –matt, gloss and other effects) on offset /packaging printing, perfect binding, cutting, folding, cold and thermal lamination, UV coating, stitching, creasing and perforation, back to back pasting,etc. All the necessary machineries and equipment are housed under one roof in her new unit spread over 3500 sq. ft.

Meeta belongs to a family of printers and publishers of British Raj. The Jaihind, a Gujarati newspaper was founded by her ancestors. She graduated in commercial art from Nirmala Niketan, Mumbai and graphic designing from Sophia Campus, Mumbai, in 1989-90. Back in Ahmedabad, she had also worked in the print production department of Ogilvy & Mather (O&M), a leading advertising agency, at their local branch for over 3 years before starting her own printing business in 1996.

Apart from offering complete post press service to offset units, A&M also provides printing solutions screen printed corporate and social stationery, tags, labels and stickers, premium calendars, books and diaries, commercial printing, signage, 3D posters, packaging, logo design, etc. She also runs Shah’s Designing Studio, to offer one stop solution in designing, printing, and print finishing. She is also one of the collaborators in a separate full fledged multi color offset printing unit located in Ahmedabad.

Commenting on her preference for brand Grafica, she says that her market research to source a good screen printing machine led her to Grafica’s customer, Dee Ech Art, Rajkot. “I was delighted to see the working features of Nano-Print and Cylinder Press. Hitesh Dobaria, proprietor of Dee Ech, told me to just buy Grafica’s machine without any hesitation. His recommendation was good enough for me to take my decision. Nano-Print plus is the most convenient machine for spot UV because of its parallel lift movement which prevents spillage of ink or varnish while printing.”

She concludes: “After installation their team imparted detailed training to our staff. I am very much satisfied with the results of Nano-Print Plus. I wish to send our staff to DMI workshop for training, so that we can explore entire NPL set up further. Because of my design background, I strongly feel that once our technical team gets well trained from DMI on the application of various special effects, this machine can do wonders in UV technology.”

nano-prinTex receives overwhelming response @KnitWorld

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 13:12:21 +0530

Grafica's nano-prinTex accomplished yet another runaway success at the recently concluded KnitWorld in Ludhiana (16-19 March 2012) with several order bookings and serious enquiries still pouring in.

All four days Grafica held live demos. Interestingly couple of customers who had booked nano-prinTex, took trials on the spot by printing hundreds of T-shirts on nano-prinTex.

Grafica has introduced its nano-prinTex at a time when garment printers were desperately looking for import substitute automatic direct-to-garment screen printing machine which requires low investment yet it can deliver precision quality.

Shori Chemicals to market nano-prinTex in Ludhiana

Wed, 21 Mar 2012 11:50:56 +0530

Grafica appoints Shori Chemicals as Representative to market nano-prinTex in Ludhiana.

Grafica has appointed Shori Chemicals as its representative in Ludhiana to market nano-prinTex, an automatic direct to garment screen printing machine along with nano-Texdryer, nano-flashTex, Nano-Screen Maker 5-in-1 and Nano-Sharpener.

Shori Chemicals was established in 1989 by Raj Paul Gupta, a M.Sc. honors in Chemistry. His son Ankur Gupta (B.Tech.), a young and dynamic marketing professional joined his father’s business in 1999. They have a warehouse spread over 1500 sq. yards besides an office in the vicinity of the Industrial hub of Ludhiana. They deal in dyes, inks, chemicals, sublimation inks and paper, sublimation heat transfers, paints, machinery, t-shirts. “By representing Grafica, we have now emerged as one stop shop solution for garment screen printers in and around Ludhiana,” asserts Ankur in an online interview.

Why did you decide to join hands with Grafica?
Ever since I joined my father’s business I know Grafica as one of a reputed Brand selling screen printing machines & equipments for graphics and industrial. Now as they have started manufacturing high quality import substitute machines I immediately approached them to allow us represent Ludhiana market. I always observed their company in exhibitions and through various other sources but when we started working with them I found that this company is totally professional and they know their subject very well. In fact their knowledge in screen printing will be a bonus for us. What I really liked about Grafica is they are not only just focussing on selling machines but are very much devoted in educational activities and teaching the right technology to every customer who wants to buy their machines. I am really pleased and honored to work with Grafica and their young team…

Very few dealers in screen printing inks and chemicals dare to take up machinery selling business. Your views:
Consumable dealers usually do not venture into machinery selling business mainly because some of the manufacturers known to have bad track record in after sales service and technical support. So, after taking up machinery dealership, if anything goes wrong and or if the machine manufacturer fails to render timely after-sales service, our hard-earned reputation and relationship with our valued customers will be in jeopardy; and we may even lose our existing customers. But with Grafica, we are rest assured. I am sure by selling Grafica's machines our business will grow tremendously as there will be more demand for quality consumables.

Your views about nano-prinTex:
Labour problems are everywhere in India and especially to get experienced and skilled printers in and around Ludhiana has become a great challenge hence Grafica’s nano-prinTex has a huge potential in our market due to its competitive price advantage and excellent quality. Garment printers are now eager to buy this machine because they have found huge benefits of automation:

1 Reduce labour involvement
2 Easy to use
3 Higher production
4 Greater consistency of print quality
5 Reduce production cost

Shree Jalaram Multi Print specializes on hospital stationery

Tue, 20 Mar 2012 06:23:53 +0530

For Ahmedabad based Shree Jalaram Multi Print Grafica’s Nano-Print is the best choice to print a wide range of hospital stationery including PVC files.

After working few years in an adverting agency, Rakesh Thakkar, proprietor of Shree Jalaram Multi Print set up his screen printing unit in 1995. Currently his new unit spread over 3000 sq. ft. area, houses Grafica’s Nano-Print, Nano-UV, single colour offset with UV, binding, design studio. Etc. “I owe my success to screen printing process,” he asserts.

His company caters to over 1500 doctors, clinics and hospitals all over Gujarat state. They produce around 5000 patient files per day. The company also offers complete commercial job to hospitals that include stationery such as envelopes, prescription pads, report papers, letter heads, plastic bags, etc.

Rakesh Thakkar, Managing Director of Shree Jalaram Multi Print and Shree Jalaram Paper Industries opines that Nano-Print is reasonably priced. “It is a compact machine and perfect for PVC file printing because of its smooth squeegee movement.”

“During a couple of educational program in Ahmedabad, I was greatly inspired by Bhargav Mistry’s command over screen printing. They are known for quality machines. I came to the conclusion that Grafica is the best and safe company to deal with.”

His DMI experience:

“At DMI, I learnt the importance of squeegee besides learning few tips on management, value addition concepts, and special effects techniques such as micro emboss effect and Rhine stone effect (Tikki) printing. As per customer demand I try to apply some of these techniques.”

Ashoka Printech produces attractive paper bags using NPL

Mon, 19 Mar 2012 06:10:13 +0530

Ashoka Printech, Delhi, exploits NPL to produce attractive paper bags, tags and labels.

With the deployment of Grafica’s Nano-Premier League (NPL), New Delhi based Ashoka Print now offers premium quality garment tags, labels and stickers to garment industry. They also make eco-friendly paper bags under the brand name ‘The Bag Factory’, which are supplied to showrooms, corporate, shopping malls, large store-chains, banks, advertising agencies for branding purpose.

“Although quality of Grafica’s machine is undoubtedly far superior, we choose brand Grafica especially because of their strong domain knowledge and assurance on technical support,” discloses Saurabh Sachdeva, proprietor of Ashoka Printech. “Prior to zeroing in on Grafica, upon our market research we found that many other suppliers do not bother to provide technical support to customers once the machine is sold.”

“I am lucky that Grafica’s technical experts are always available to guide us if there is any issue in screen printing. This is something unique about Grafica, and it gives us confidence to move forward in our business. We are able to delight our customers by offering products at competitive price with consistent quality and delivery commitment.”

His DMI experience:

“I learnt a great lesson on systematic work culture to be adopted by screen printers to improve overall efficiency, quality and grow in business. I think DMI is fast changing the bad image of screen printing industry.”

For Krishna Enterprise Nano-Print is a big game changer

Sun, 18 Mar 2012 06:41:21 +0530

Krishna Enterprise, Rajkot, has recently procured Nano-Print based on mere trust of quality and overwhelming feedbacks received from Grafica’s other customers in Rajkot.
 Established about 10 years ago by Arvind Patel, Krishna Enterprise manufacturers a wide range of bags under their brand name ‘Raj Bag’ at their 4000 sq. ft. production unit. These include: school, office, travel, shopping, lap-top and tool-kit bags which are manufactured using PVC, nylon, polyester, resin, non woven and other materials. The company has a distributors in Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Gujarat, some parts of south India.

“I would say Nano-Print is a big game changer. There is absolutely 100% difference in print quality than what it used to be in manual screen printing,” he asserts adding, “We have substantially increased our production, and drastically minimized labour cost,” says Arvind Patel, proprietor of Krishna Enterprise.

Nano-Print is a key to my success says Rag-to-Riches man

Fri, 16 Mar 2012 06:36:42 +0530

On 14th April, Babu, proprietor of Mumbai based Baba Print House had every reason to celebrate his company’s 17th successful year with lot of joy for he now proudly owns Grafica’s Nano-Print and Nano-UV which he procured a year ago.

In 1985, at the age of 10, Babu had migrated to Mumbai from Penugonda (then a remote backward village in Andhra Pradesh) along with his parents in search of livelihood. Babu did not have even a slightest dream to become a successful screen printer that he is today.

Currently, his company Baba Print House undertakes all types of commercial jobs besides offering print finishing service to offset/packaging printers. “I invested in Grafica’s Nano-Print and Nano-UV to offer innovative print finishing service to offset printers in our locality,” informs Babu.

With Grafica’s Nano-Print, his company Baba Print House strives to create an impression in Mumbai’s thriving print finishing market, besides undertaking scratch-card coupon printing on regular basis.

“I owe to Grafica’s marketing team for giving me right guidance at the time of investment plan. They continued their support by giving me technical support whenever it was much needed,” he concludes.

Apurva Graphics offers Spot UV Services using Nano-Print

Fri, 16 Mar 2012 05:31:55 +0530

A new start up company Apurva Graphics have recently invested in Grafica’s Nano-Print plus & Nano-Screen Maker 5-in-1 to offer spot UV services to offset and screen printers in Rajkot and Morbi.

The company is partnered by three entrepreneurs, namely, Ankur Parekh, Mahesh Patel and Viral Jethva. Their print finishing service firm Solo Paper Boutique offers print finishing service to screen printers involving spot UV on special visiting cards, all types of social stationery, wedding cards, etc. Similarly, for offset printers they carry out UV special effects on packaging, brochures and other commercial jobs related to tile, construction, hardware, engineering companies.

“To offer these premium services, we needed not only best technology but also reliable technical support on regular basis, and that was available only from Grafica,” reasons Ankur. “From time to time, they give us proper onsite training or online guidance. Moreover, we also had the opportunity of attending DMI’s workshop where we learnt many tricks of value addition. I can proudly say that there is no other company in India except Grafica who are highly competent in offering excellent technical support.”

He concludes: “Nano-Print plus is one of the best creations of Grafica. Technically speaking, its parallel screen frame movement is very much convenient for our spot UV work; the double stroke mechanism is useful for high density UV special effects printing, the adjustable screen frame holder is convenient to execute jobs of varied sizes.”

Mumbai wedding card bizmen spend their Sunday @DMI

Thu, 15 Mar 2012 06:53:19 +0530

Around 50 members of Mumbai Card Manufacturer & Dealers Association spent their Sunday on 12th February 2012 at DMI to get exposed to automation-age and learn new techniques in advanced screen printing,

While making a presentation especially designed for wedding card printing, Bhargav Mistry, Director of DMI informed the participants that already hundreds of wedding card manufacturers from all over India have adopted automation in screen printing with Grafica’s technology besides taking immense benefit from DMI’s regular workshops.

“It was worth spending a day at DMI. We have understood why it is important to adopt automation and how we can add newness to our wedding card business by using various UV special effects coupled with appealing designs and wide range of paper and non paper substrates. We are grateful to DMI for showing us a wide range of unique wedding card samples, screen printed on Grafica’s screen printing machines, using various UV special effects,” said Ashok Jain, Secretary of the Association.

According to Jain, although there is 100% growth in wedding card industry, currently there is ruthless competition. “The trend is to bring readymade paper, use standard design patters, and simply print it by manual screen printing using mostly solvent inks. Copying is also rampant. As a result customers find stereo type everywhere and competition is spoiling the market. Surely, the trend will change for the better. In future I believe UV and automation will take over the traditional method of wedding card business. We can print cards with numerous special effects and custom made designs.”

“DMI’s workshop was timely as we are gearing up for the next wedding season. DMI has really opened up new avenues in wedding card printing and has given us new direction since currently we are facing acute shortage of manpower to pull the squeegee, our deliveries get hampered; quality is really a major issue in wedding card printing. I think there is no other way but to go for automation and adopt UV technology,” he asserts by ending: “DMI’s free workshops are commendable and they are rendering great service to our society. I wish them a great success.”

MD Graphics exploits Cam-Shell for Industrial Printing

Wed, 14 Mar 2012 15:52:36 +0530

M.D. Graphics & Metal Works, a New Delhi based ISO 9001: 2008 certified printing firm, fully exploits Grafica’s 20” x 30” Cam Shell to deliver superior quality industrial labels.

They manufactures and supplies Decals, Dome Labels, Energy Meter Plates, Anodized Labels, Stainless Steel Etched Name Plates, Powder Coated Printed Label, etc, to electronics, electrical, automobile, engineering, construction and agriculture sector all over India. Additionally, they also produce Polycarbonate, vinyl, PVC and paper stickers.

The company was set up in 2007 by Mukesh and Dheeraj Sharma, after working for over ten years in screen printing industry. The duos consider ‘Screen printing’ as backbone of their business.

When the time was ripe to revamp their screen printing unit, brand Grafica was their preferred choice. “Grafica is a well known company in screen printing industry supplying quality screen printing machines. We had seen their machines working in excellent condition, hence we preferred Grafica,” reasons Mukesh.

“Its squeegee/flood bar mechanism is superb and facilitates easy job changeover. “With such a reliable machine, we are able to meet requirements of our growing clientele,” he adds.

“Since Grafica is a customer oriented company with excellent after sales service, it gives us confidence to deal with our customers with a carefree mind,” he affirms. “Associating with Grafica is a great experience. If at any point of time we need any technical advice they are always there to help us,” he concludes.

Divya Sai Arts deploys 3 Nano-Prints for Ceramic Transfers

Mon, 12 Mar 2012 16:10:30 +0530

Divya Sai Arts revamps its manual screen printing unit with 3 Nano-Print to increase production of Ceramic Transfers.

Ever since Grafica introduced its Nano-Print, automation is fast catching up in screen printing. New Delhi based Divya Sai Arts is the latest entrant who has deployed three Nano-Prints.

Divya Sai Arts is a manufacturer of decals for tiles, ceramic, glass industry with a monthly capacity of 70,000-80000 sheets per month. They cater to customers in Khurja in UP, Gujarat and Delhi markets.

“We bought three Nano-Prints together to overcome quality issues and man-power shortage,” reveals Parveen Kubba, proprietor of Divya Sai Arts who belongs to a family which is into ceramic industry for several decades.

“Automation has really made a positive difference in my business,” says Parveen.

“Grafica has a good reputation in the ceramic industry for their sturdy machines. We are completely satisfied with their Nano-Print. Moreover, in-line with their reputation, Grafica offers excellent after sales service with efficient service back up. This has given us further confidence to make investment in Grafica’s machines,” he concludes.

With Nano-Print & Nano-Print plus we reduced labor cost

Sun, 11 Mar 2012 18:37:49 +0530

Noida-based Artech Industries, manufacturer of industrial labels, has cut down labour cost by almost 50% at the same time they have doubled production, after investing in Grafica’s Nano Print and Nano-Print plus. This also speaks about the tangible gains of automation in screen printing.

“Whether it was a mere coincidence or we were fortunate. Immediately after we installed Grafica’s Nano-Print plus, we received an order for polycarbonate labels which was impossible to print by manual screen printing,” reveal Surender Singh and his elder brother Bhupinder Singh, partners of Artech Industries.

To make the entire screen printing operation cost effective and enhance production capacity, besides improving overall efficiency, they decided to switch over to automation. They claim that automation has enhanced their strength and they are able to execute even toughest jobs in industrial screen printing.

“Both these machines manufactured by Grafica (Nano-Print & Nano-Print plus) are very high quality and useful for industrial labels and stickers because it delivers accurate registration.

“We liked the parallel screen frame movement of Nano-Print plus. It is convenient for low viscosity inks such as solvent to avoid ink spillage all over the screen. I would say this is the biggest advantage of Nano-Print plus,’ says Surender Singh.

“I think the biggest contribution of Grafica is their Grafica News and monthly eNews. I can say Grafica has changed the image of screen printing industry in India. Grafica News is a like a handbook or a guide to screen printers. It is creating awareness about advanced screen printing technology,” he concludes.

Limca Book record holder prefers NPL for wedding cards

Sat, 10 Mar 2012 17:52:35 +0530

Nitesh Dhandharia, Director, Woodland Impex Pvt Ltd, is a manufacturer exclusive invitation and wedding cards under the brand name ‘Aanandam’ with their showroom at Burmeese Colony in Jaipur.

I had a strong reason to believe that automation was the only way to successfully run my wedding card business that’s why I decided to buy Grafica’s Nano-Premier League a unique package instead of going for half-hearted automation,” recalls Nitesh.

“With NPL I can we have added new dimension to our wedding card business. We produce innovative wedding cards, special invites, paper bags, sweet boxes, photo frames at our 2500 sq.ft unit,” he adds.

Vikas Labels produced 1 million heat transfer pa using NPL

Fri, 9 Mar 2012 18:01:56 +0530

Joginder Thakur of Vikas Labels Company, New Delhi reveals how he achieved ultimate progress in his heat transfer business after deploying Grafica’s NPL.

“Earlier my company used to outsource heat transfer labels in large quantity. Now with Grafica’s NPL we have achieved ultimate progress,” affirms Joginder. To support his claim he reveals that his company has produced more than 1 million heat transfers on Nano-Print within a year without any trouble.

About Vikas Labels Company:
The company caters only to export-oriented garment companies and international brands. Their factory spread over 125 sq.yard, houses Grafica’s Nano Premier League (NPL), besides other machinery and equipment required for production of heat transfers (40,000 pcs per day), garment tags (60,000 pcs per day) and barcode stickers. They also produce corporate gift items on paper and non-paper substrates. They also have a non woven label printing unit at Anand Parbat Industrial Area in New Delhi with a capacity to produce one lakh labels per day.

A fashion designer invests in NPL for export of packaging

Wed, 7 Mar 2012 18:16:37 +0530

Following investment in Grafica’s Nano-Premier League plus (NPL+), Ms Dipti Patel, one of the partners of D.S. Enterprises, Ahmedabad, eyes export market in a big way for their premium quality paper bags and boxes. They have already commenced exporting these stuffs to USA and UK market.

The other partner of D.S. Enterprises, Sunil Jhaveri, an MBA, also runs a separate offset printing unit. After successfully running a design studio in 1990, he ventured into screen printing business in 1997. D.S. Enterprises has also invested in automatic non-woven bag making & printing machine to produce multi colour bags.

Taking experience from her fashion designing venture, Dipti also got attracted to screen printing after seeing DMI’s wide range of highly creative screen printed samples and live demo of Grafica’s Nano-Print plus at an exhibition at Chennai in 2011.

“Since I am from fashion design background, I have reason to believe that screen printing process could be explored to give special effects on packaging such as jewellery boxes,” she asserts.” says Dipti.

“With NPL, a complete in-house screen printing system, we are able to give assured commitment to our customers in terms of delivery and quality,” concludes Dipti.