Provin Technos has entered into a joint venture with Katsura Roller to form an equity partnership – Katsura Roller India. Katsura Roller Mfg. Co. Limited is a 125-year-old roller manufacturing company. Most of the rollers that come with RMGT and other new presses from Japan are manufactured by this company, Provin director Vinay Kaushal said ..read more

Established in 2012 under the leadership of directors Vinay Kaushal and Pradeep Nandagopal, Provin Technos is a distributor for MHI – PPM heatset web offset presses, the RMGT sheet-fed offset presses, Miyakoshi’s narrow web presses, the Lithec inline color control system, and UV Energy smart UV Systems in India and Nepal. Completing a dozen years on ..read more

One of the first things that I did at drupa was to listen to a keynote presentation at the drupaCube by the British economist Vicky Pryce on the state of the world’s finances. I wanted to have a good grounding in the economic realities before spending the rest of the week looking at expensive high-tech ..read more

Delhi-based Prism Offset, a customer of Komori presses for years, is geared up to install its third Komori press at its Kutch unit in Gujarat. The new Komori press, a 5-color Lithrone GL 537, was booked by Prism Offset at drupa 2024, Komori announced.  Prism Offset was established in the year 1983 and incorporated as ..read more

To exploit the digital printing market, Udaipur-based COPL Digital, a newly unveiled sister concern & digital arm of COPL Print O Pack, has invested in a brand new PixelGlow, a fully automated advanced spot UV & foiling machine, which is made indigenously in India by Monotech Systems. Since its inception in 2019, COPL Print O ..read more

There has been a significant gap in the Indian market for inkjet technology because of the absence of a manufacturing infrastructure for inkjet presses, printheads, inks, drive technology, and cleaning technology for industrial printing, says Namrata Sharma, founder of Global Print Konnect, an alliance formed to enhance inkjet-integrated technology manufacturing in India. “While working with ..read more

The Indian print news magazine industry is at a crossroads. With the advent of digital news media platforms, social media sites and OTT platforms, coupled with a decline in magazine readership during the Covid-19 pandemic, news magazines are trying in various ways to reinvent themselves to keep pace and stay relevant to changing readership patterns ..read more

At drupa 2024, HP, supported by a comprehensive partner ecosystem, highlighted eight automated production lines capable of handling 80 jobs and 25 different applications in the industrial print segment. In the large-format business, in Hall 17, HP showcased new solutions that meet the print service providers’ high-level demands and optimize the work process — V12 ..read more

The other day, I was reading an obit on Camlin founder Dilip Dhandekar on an online platform. The seemingly well-presented article mentioned how Dandekar was instrumental in transforming Camlin into a household name with its stationery and educational products. As I scrolled down, one line inside the brackets at the bottom caught my attention. “This ..read more

Cross Media, a London-based subsidiary of Toppan Holdings, will hold the Hyper Japan Festival 2024, the UK’s biggest J-culture event, from 19 to 21 July at Olympia London. Taking the concept of ‘Bringing Japan’s Wonders to the World,’ the Hyper Japan Festival 2024 will showcase a broad array of Japanese content and culture for UK-based ..read more