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Bhargav’s Blog understand that Sri Lanka's apparel industry makes significant contribution for their country's economy with over US $3 billion export revenue being generated and sustained for five consecutive years. So, I would get an opportunity to know more about the trend in Sri Lanka and interest of garment printers.

At the time of writing this blog, I was busy preparing for an educational seminar on advanced textile screen printing in Sri Lanka. The seminar will be held during the Screen Print Sri Lanka exhibition (1-3 December 2016) in Colombo. My seminar would be on 2nd December 2016 at 2.00 pm. I am very excited as this would be my first technical seminar in Sri Lanka. The focus of my presentation would be on how to print digital like quality in textile screen printing. I would emphasis on the use of stochastic dots. I

After I come back from Sri Lanka, I would be busy in preparing for yet another exciting DMI workshop on 13-15 December 2016. This workshop would be on advance textile screen printing. Those who want to learn the exciting technique of printing digital like quality in textile screen printing can register online at www.graficaindia.com as seats are getting full very fast. In this issue of Grafica News India, we have a focused feature on 'Graphics Screen Printing,' (page 8 to 12). Compared to digital printing technology, advanced screen printing offers a cost effective solution when it comes to graphics printing jobs (with large

orders) such as display boards (for indoor/outdoor advertising,) etc, which are required to be printed on rigid substrates such as such as acrylic, glass, sunpack, sunboard, tin, PVC. Finally, I congratulate all the winners of the recent PrintWeek India Awards. As I could see from

the list, some of our valued customers have also won awards in this competition. My special congratulations to them! Let's together look forward to an exciting New Year 2017! Bhargav Mistry

Aeoon's DTG digital printer with 950 T-Shirts/hour speed makes its presence felt in Indian market Austria based Aeoon Technologies GmbH has successfully introduced a Compact Series Direct-toGarment (DTG) Digital printing machine. It can reach printing speed of up to 950 T-Shirts per hour (A4 print size, depending on image and resolution). It is smaller, yet equally durable, hence perfect for businesses with limited space availability. And one can print just a single piece of t-shirt as well. The machine is available with 4 or 8 print heads that can be configured according to the needs. With Digital press one can print spot and CMYK colors even with big quantity. Features: ! Slim, elegant design ! Up to 950 T-Shirts per hour ! Maximum printing size: 50x70cm ! Temperature controlled ink compartment (optional) ! Nano-coated machine body for easy cleaning (optional) ! Size: 2,8m x 2,2m x 1,7m // Weight: 1.500kg

With Aeoon's digital press you can print: ! 3D Effects ! Shadows ! Color gradients and especially also for grey ! Skin tones ! Details ! Different patterns in the same Image ! What you see on the screen (computer) is what you get as a print result. Aeoon Technologies backs up its sales with excellent technical support, and in-depth advices right from the initial idea to the start of the production. Aeoon Technologies is a leading manufacturer of digital direct to garment (DTG) printing machines. Grafica Flextronica is the India Representative of Aeoon Technologies. For details contact: [email protected]

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Register for DMI’s Next Workshop on Advanced Textile Screen Printing FACEBOOK COMMENTS: http://www.facebook/dmiinstitute There seems to be a surge in urge to learn advanced screen printing technology among the printing community across the world if some of the comments posted on DMI's Facebook page are any indication. I am a Communication Designer and have always been interested in screen printing. I guess now I have the time to take a decent course to learn screen printing in and out. I have tried a lot to search for relevant courses but no such luck. So if you could please guide me or give me links to some good institutes where I can learn Screen printing, however long the course may be. I will feel be blessed. Bhaskar Saxena Kya training center Ahmedabad me hai (Is there any training centre in Ahmedabad)? Hitesh Chatriwala Hello sir, I want to know about next dates of seminars on screen printing. Plz send me the link or details of that seminar... I'm very much interested to attend those workshops. Rajesh Jadhav, Pune Is there no more training on screen printing during this current year? B Daniel, Kolkata I am a Graphics Designer. Your Company is changing the way the Screen Printing is done currently. No Time Waste! Dhiman Rajnish, Gurgaon I am creative and printing is my profession. I have seen all the performances, creativity and high technologies of the great printing company in India, but I cherish and admire especially your works. Martins Portipher, Nigeria Is there any Institute, printing press or workshop in Delhi for Screen Printing. Kindly inform me. Meena Paul, Delhi

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I wanted to ask if DMI Institute offers any courses or training in regards to Screen Printing for garment (T-Shirt) specifically. I am new to this and have absolutely no knowledge in regards to screen printing. Any Information in what training you offer would be greatly appreciated. Ryan Asurlekar, Mumbai. Dear Bhargav, Recently, I sent you an email asking if you would welcome me to your training center allowing me to perfect my screen printing techniques. I live between France and the US but am attracted to India and by the story between you and Michel Caza, a story of how international cooperation can transform the journey of life. Alex Goldsborough We wait to attain knowledge in DMI Work shop. Mehboob Ghanchi Arrange a workshop on screen printing along with live demo of machines around North India. Anil Dubey I am interested to join your institution to learn the new style of screen printing. I am a professional printer for the last 15 years. I have done my master degree in Fine Arts (applied Art). Now I want to establish my printing business in Solan, a city in Himachal Pradesh. Please send me the procedure to attend your workshop. Jai Anand, Shimla After attending your 3 day Workshop at DMI, I am very inspired by your knowledge and attitude towards all participants. I am Proprietor of a Packaging & Printing Press at Kolhapur. In six months I will try my best to make my press as good as DMI to welcome you. Please promise me to visit my press and give me a chance to salute your good work. Shailesh Purohit DMI is best institute in India. Maheeji Mahendran, Pondicherry

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Grafica @ GarKnit-X Kolkata At the recently concluded GarKnit-X Expo held on 21-23 October 2016 in Kolkata. Grafica demonstrated its Grafica-Tex, a new Direct to Garment (DTG) screen printing machine and the new nano-prinTag plus. Grafica had also pictorially displayed its entire range of textile screen printing machinery & allied products, and also Aeoon's DTG digital printing machine. A large collection of digital like quality samples produced in DMI's past DTG screen printing workshops, were displayed. Grafica's team of experts, and Nilesh Enterprises (Kolkata Representative), were available to reply all queries of the visitors.

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Fashion Print Tex, Bengaluru trusts Grafica's DTG screen printing machine There are a growing number of garment printers/garment manufacturers all over the world who now prefer Grafica's Direct to Garment (DTG) screen printing machines. A point in case is the Fashion PRINT TEX, Bengaluru, part of the Next Fashion Apparels Group, who have installed Grafica DTG screen printing machine (8 col/12 pallet). They have also installed Grafica flashTex (an intelligent flash curing system) and complete

screen making system – NanoScreen Maker 5-in-1 and a separate stretching unit. Fashion Print Tex is a manufacturer of garments such as T-shirts for domestic market with their 7000 sq.ft factory based in Bengaluru. They had 5 manual screen printing machines, housed separately at their 6000 sq.ft production facility. Apart from catering to NF Apparels (25% of capacity), Fashion Print

Tex also undertakes DTG screen printing service on job work basis, catering to export oriented garment units (75% ). The company prints about 130,000 pieces of garments per month.

customers without a quality automatic machine, screen making set up and right technical knowledge,” says Guruprasad one of the partners of Fashion Print Tex.

“In garment printing, quality comes first. Timely delivery and competitive price are other crucial demands of customers. If we are able to meet these demands, then we get repeat orders. We cannot meet such stringent demands of

He continues: “In manual screen printing, obtaining sharpness was almost difficult. And we had to be always behind workmen to check quality of print and remove rejections. On the other hand, Grafica DTG screen printing machine delivers consistent quality without requiring much of supervision and quality checking.” Guruprasad adds, “We realised that mere automatic machine can't improve quality of print without having an inhouse screen making set up. With manual screen making method, we were not able to open fine dots and halftone/CMYK printing was quite difficult. Now with Grafica's excellent screen making system, we are able to create right input (stencil) and easily deliver quality output (halftone prints).” He concludes: “The advantage with Grafica is that they offer complete package – technology and technical knowhow.”

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Nextgen Printers prefer Grafica Cylinder Press to offer value addition on pharma packaging

Khandelwal, one of the directors) was printing and supplying packaging to pharma companies in Sikkim. The logistic difficulties necessitated setting up of a packaging print unit in Sikkim itself. Thus we all joined together and founded NextGen Printing Pvt Ltd in 2010.

Rakesh Khandelwal (L) and Bijay Agarwal

What was started as 'luxury in print', the value addition concept (also called as print finishing) has now become a norm in the commercial/packaging printing arena. Value addition involves application of various nextgen UV special effects by advanced screen printing & UV technology. Many large printing firms now prefer to have an inhouse screen printing set up rather than outsourcing print finishing work. A point in case is the Kolkata based Nextgen Printers Pvt Ltd who have installed Grafica fully automatic Cylinder Press with inline UV and complete screen making set up at their new printing unit in Howrah. Nextgen Printers was born out of an ambitious thinking by four entrepreneurs - Mahesh Khandelwal, Rakesh Khandelwal, Bijay Agarwal, Arun Agarwal. These entrepreneurs, with

different professional background, joined together to set up a packaging printing unit in Sikkim, following the heavy pharma sector investment in this Himalayan state. In an interview, Rakesh Khandelwal and Bijay Agarwal, reveal their value addition strategy. Interview: Tell us about the beginning of Nextgen: We saw good investment opportunity in printing business following the Govt of India's North East Industrial Investment Policy 2007 (NEIIP'07). This project had attracted widespread investment by pharma sector, with over 30 large and small pharma companies setting up their base in Sikkim. In 2008, Avail Printers, Kolkata, (a company then owned by Mahesh

Grafica connection: We know Grafica for the last 9 years as we used to see their screen printing technology and value addition techniques at various print exhibitions. Their machines are very good, sturdy and production oriented. Before buying decision we also gathered enough positive market report about Grafica. We received excellent feedback in the market. We tried to understand their machine on how to use it for value addition and we thought it to be the best option for our needs. Also, for our kind of printing companies, a fully automatic cylinder press is the best option rather than having a semi automatic machine. What was the strategy behind investing in advanced screen printing technology? Although packaging is a subject of mass production, the packaging meant for niche market (health care and other over the counter pharma products) require print decoration by way of value addition. We came to know that

with screen printing and UV technology we can offer a wide range of UV special effects such as glitter, texture, micro emboss, crystal UV (for high raise print), abrasive, etc. Barring few print companies, such high class value addition facility was not available in Eastern region, and the companies from the East used to get it done from West and Northern print markets. Instead of outsourcing, we decided to have an inhouse screen printing unit for all logistic reasons. With inhouse screen printing set up, we could serve our customers better. What's the trend in packaging? Now there is a growing trend of using rigid substrates such as plastic and box with UV packaging by cosmetics and chocolate companies. Customers demand some new look for their packaging. There is a limitation on offset press. But high raise emboss, and other special effects treatment is possible by screen printing. It gives special attraction / value added edge in the market, stands attractive than other products. When customers visit medical shops or shops/shopping malls first they get attracted to the packaging of a product (be it chocolate, cosmetics, personal care products, over the counter pharma items).

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Customer What about digital technology? We had seen the capabilities of digital press for value addition but right now it is costly affair than screen printing. Screen printing is the only economic and viable solution right now in India. Digital will take some time before it becomes economical solution for value addition. What's the growth of pharma packaging in North East? We have registered a Year on Year growth of 20-25%, pharma being the major revenue driver. Our company is now on an expansion mode under which a second packaging unit is being established at Howrah near Kolkata. This unit has partly commenced production and would be completed by 2017. A new rigid packaging unit is also getting ready at this premise. About Nextgen: Nextgen Printers is a leading

Packaging Solution Provider in Eastern India. This ISO 9001:2008 certified printing firm have their headquarters in Kolkata and two mammoth printing units – Unit I in Sikkim and Unit II in Howrah. The Sikkim unit is spread over 35000 sq ft area which houses 4color offset, and complete pre press and post press/finishing machinery and equipment The unit, employing about 120 people, is exclusively meant for pharma packaging. On the other hand, the new Howrah unit employs about 130 people and spread over 60000 sq. ft plus another 60000 sq.ft construction is going on top floors. This will give employment to another 100

people. The unit has 7 Colour offset with Online Coating, complete pre press, post press/finishing facilities. Nextgen Printers was the first to set up a printing and packaging unit in the state of Sikkim, India. Their state of the art Factory produces different types of Folding Box Cartons. Their plants are equipped with the most modern and sophisticated machinery imported from Japan & Switzerland. Nextgen designs and manufactures paperboard folding cartons, and provides comprehensive contract packaging services for pharmaceutical companies located in Sikkim and the region around.

The company supplies Cartons, Labels, Leaflets, POP Material, Games/Toys printed in Paper / Paper Board and Plastics. They also undertake print finishing with aqueous varnishing, U.V. Lacquering, lamination, Foiling, Embossing, Cartons with Glued end, Reverse Tuck In, Crash lock Bottom, Double compartments with or without windows & Display flap, et al. They also plan to make metpet, UV drip effects, textures and conventional jobs on various substrates. Packaging product includes: Pharmaceuticals, Tea pack, FMCG, Confectionery & Sweets, Agarbattis, Rakhi, Gifts, Stationery, Hosiery & Garments, Cosmetics, Footwear, Fast Food & Packaged Food Products.

PrintWeek India Awards 2016

PrintWeek India Performance Awards 2016 Winners PrintWeek India Printing Company of the Year: Parksons Packaging, Mumbai PrintWeek India Green Printing Company: ITC Ltd - Pkg & Printing Dvn, Chennai SME Printing Company: Brilliant Printers, Bengaluru Post-Press Company: Lovely Offset Printers, Sivakasi Pre-Press Company: Creative Graphics, Noida Student of the Year 2016: Dekshitha Sridhar (SIES Graduate School of Technology): PrintWeek India Quality Awards 2016 Winners Screen Printer of the Year 2016: Spectrum Scan, Vasai. Packaging Converter (Luxury) (Tie): Manipal Technologies, Manipal & Perfect Packaging, Mumbai. Fine Art Printer: Marvel Graphic Studio, Ahmedabad Industrial Product Printer (Tie): Parksons Graphics, Mumbai & Viraj Prints, Mumbai. Social Stationery Printer (Tie): Almats Branding Solutions, Mumbai & Lustra Print Process, New Delhi. Book Printer (Academic and Trade): SFA Print, Sivakasi Book Printer (Specialty) (Tie): Jak Printers, Mumbai & Pragati Offset, Hyderabad

Brochure and Catalogue Printer: Silverpoint Press, Mumbai Digital Photo Album Printer (Tie): Capital Color Lab, Mysuru & Klick Digital Press, Surat Digital Printer (Tie): Avantika Printers, New Delhi & Chanakya Mudrak, New Delhi Innovative Printer: Jayna Packaging, Mumbai Label Printer: Any Graphics, Noida Label Printer - Special Jury Award: Mudrika Labels, Mumbai. Magazine Printer: Thomson Press, New Delhi. Newspaper Printer: Divya Bhaskar, Ahmedabad Packaging Converter (General): Mandagini Seals, Chennai Packaging Converter (General) - Special Jury Award: Jain Offset Print, Surat PUR-Book Maker: Thomson Press, New Delhi. Wide-Format Printer: Printech Digital Imaging, Bengaluru.;

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PrintPack India'17 Special: Graphics Screen Printing

Why do digital print solution providers invest in advanced screen printing technology? Because… “Screen printing process is the cost effective way to print advertising display boards on rigid substrates” Screen printing process is now a most preferred choice for graphics printing vis-a-vis to print advertising and promotional display boards on rigid substrates such as tin, sunpack, sunboard, acrylic, PVC, et al. That is why many offset and/or digital print solution providers are also investing in screen printing technology. These jobs are requisitioned by a wide spectrum

of print buyers in education, agriculture, electronics and home appliances, garments, footwear, real estate, banking, healthcare, telecommunication, among many others. In the following pages, Grafica News India unfolds some of the recent entrants in graphics screen printing. Grafica Flextronica screen printing

machines are used by a number of printers all over India and abroad. The machines include: CamShell, semi automatic screen printing machine, available in 20”x 30”, 30”x 40” and 40” x 60”. While these machines are used for wide format graphics screen printing by medium and big printers, smaller print firms use Grafica Nano-Print plus for jobs upto 22” x 28”. Moreover, Grafica's complete

Divya Digital Press, Thiruvananthapuram

As the name suggests, Divya Digital Press is a digital printing service provider in south Kerala. However, to meet the diverse needs of the customers, the company has forayed into screen printing. Divya Digital Press is a sister concern of Beety Offset Printers which has a large printing facility spread over 4000 sq.ft. With advanced screen printing set up from Grafica, Divya Digital Press

supplies sign boards (screen printed on sunpack/sunboard) to Educational institutes, hotels, food and beverage companies, jewelry / automobile shops, garments / medical sports, health & fitness spa, temples festivals & religious events, bore well drilling companies, et al. Additionally, the company offers value addition (spot UV/special effects), wedding cards, non woven bags, t-shirts, etc.

screen making set up is being employed by these printers. The machine range include: Pneumatic fabric stretching equipment, Automatic Emulsion Coating machine, Screen Dryer, Screen Exposing unit and also Backlit screen washing booth. Grafica Nano-Screen Maker 5-in-1 is being used by smaller print firms who use Nano-Print plus for graphics screen printing.

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“We bought Nano-Print plus after watching a convincing live demo at a leading exhibition. However, we had also taken trials of multi color jobs and UV special effects printing at other machine manufacturers, but Grafica found to be the best,” says Rakesh T.S. “Grafica is known for their prompt after sales and technical support. We received 4 days onsite training with regard to graphics screen printing and value addition,” says

Divya Priyadrashini, Proprietor of Divya Digital Press, who joined her husband's (Rakesh) printing business after marriage. “I had the fortune of attending DMI's workshop where I learnt the 'quality culture' in screen printing. Since we are majorly into graphics screen printing lot of doubts and concepts related to color management were cleared,” concludes Rakesh.

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A.R. Enterprise, Kolkata

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Atikur Rahaman

As a wide format print solution provider with four digital presses, why did A.R. Enterprise invest in Grafica's advanced screen printing technology? Read an interesting story of digital/screen printing 'jugalbandi' (fusion) in Kolkata. Established in 2005, A.R. Enterprise has two production units, 7000 sq.ft and 9000 sq.ft, respectively. The company's digital set up can roll out 5 ft to 10 ft prints. Besides they have all necessary cutting, finishing, fabrication, storage, and logistics facilities. The company caters to around 15 big corporate and MNCs, engaged in entertainment, electronics and home appliances, food and beverages, leading mobile companies, cigarette companies, amusement parks, et al. Atikur Rahaman, the sole Proprietor A.R. Enterprise, began his journey in 1983. He used to make hand painted advertising sign boards, glow signs, display boards for a variety of industries. Interview: As a digital player why did you foray into screen printing? Screen printing was a necessity arised out of the diverse needs of our customers. As compared to digital, screen printing is cost

effective for certain rigid substrates involving mass production such as sunpack and sunboard advertising display boards. For e.g. we print display boards/wall signs in different sizes upto 22” x 28” on screen printing machine. However, the same job can be printed on a flatbed digital press which is 20% costlier than screen printing. Also, there is a production issue with regard to flat bed digital. For e.g. On 22” x 28” screen printing machine we can directly print a job of that size or even less, say 1.5 x 1.5 ft. Printing such small jobs on flatbed is not appropriate as we have to print bigger sheets of sunpack or sunboard and then cut which is again an extra work, adding further costs. Moreover, digital printing on vinyl and pasting it on sunboard or sunpack is again a tedious work. So after all evaluation we opted for screen printing. Why did you adopt automation? We had manual screen printing set up. However, after visiting many printing exhibitions in Kolkata and New Delhi where we had the opportunity of watching live demo of Grafica's advanced screen printing machines. I also got the glimpses of stunning graphics/halftone printing samples unbelievably screen printed on rigid substrates. Back in

factory, we realized that the quality of our jobs done with manual screen printing was far inferior. Moreover, as compared to the speed of screen printing machines, the production was also slow in manual system especially when you have to print bigger size halftone jobs. Also, there used to be huge wastage of jobs due to rejections. So, we felt the need to go for automation and invested in Grafica's complete screen printing kit comprising Nano-Print plus (22” x 28”), Nano-UV, NanoSharpener and Nano-Screen Maker 5-in-1. Tell us about your experience with Grafica: I was inspired to go for automation after seeing their DMI institute's graphics samples, screen printed on modern day rigid substrates such as sunpack, sunboard, MDF, acrylic, metal, PVC, etc. Even they guided me on how to neatly and conveniently lay down the screen printing unit (see photograph). Since we had manual screen printing set up, we received all guidance from Grafica with regard to automation and use of quality inks and chemicals. Because my purpose of investing in advanced screen printing was to deliver superior quality graphics printing than what I used to get on manual screen printing.

What are your strengths? Our USP is that we offer complete turnkey solutions, right from printing (in some cases designing as well), cutting, finishing, fabrication, transport and installation at site, etc. And now we have added screen printing as well which enables us to offer superior quality yet cost effective signage solutions. Also, to keep pace with the changing times in outdoor advertising, we also offer LED signage. Although we are based in Kolkata, we have to execute our customers' jobs that involve onsite installation of outdoor advertising in states such as West Bengal, Sikkim, Andhra Pradesh, Bihar and Jharkhand states. And of course, we have over three decades of experience in signage that includes two decades of expertise in wide format digital printing for outdoor/indoor advertising. That is why most of our customers giving us repeat orders regularly. How is the market? Market for digital printing is not growing much for the last few years. However, because of our strength and capabilities, our business is steady. There is about 50% growth in our LED business with good profit margin, whereas our digital printing business is just steady.

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Agarwal Offset Printers, Asansol Established in1997, Agarwal Offset Printers, Asansol, is truly a one stop print service provider with full fledged offset, digital, advanced screen printing units spread over 2700 sqft and 3500 sq.ft. production base. The company has also a separate business which prints and supplies Computer stationery to railways and LIC.

Their screen printing department has Grafica Nano-Print plus and complete screen making set up called Nano-Screen Maker 5-in-1. They undertake printing of advertising display boards on sunpack and sunboard, wedding cards and such jobs which cannot be printed by any other printing process. The company offers a wide gamut

of printing service such as UV lamination, t-shirts and heat transfers, flex, banners (roll to roll), wide format printing for indoor/outdoor advertising (upto 10 ft), ID cards, corporate gifts & stationery, screen printed advertising display boards, offset printing, etc. Besides, the company also undertakes designing, printing, finishing, fabrication and onsite erection. Screen printed Sunpack display boards are requisitioned by Ice cream parlors, food and beverage companies, mobile operators, corporate, educational institutes, banks, cement companies and even often government agencies – all located in Dhanbad, Asansol, Durgaur, Jharkhand, and other cities and towns. Agarwal Offset Printers is a family managed firm founded by Jagadish Agarwal who is a multi dimensional entrepreneur with engineering background. Now his two sons - Niten Agarwal and

Jai Creations, Dharmapuri Jai Creations is primarily engaged in screen printing outdoor advertising display boards on Sunpack. These screen printed (halftone/spot color) display boards are supplied to educational institutes, banks, automobile showrooms, mobile and garment shops, et al, for their outdoor advertising needs. The company also prints and supplies non-woven / cloth bags to educational institutes, temples, shops (mobile, garment, jewelry, etc). These bags are screen printed in the size of 9” x 11” to 18” x 15”. “We make 5-6000 bags per wedding. We also make special stationery kit bags for schools and colleges (25000-30000 bags) during April-May season. We cater

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to 15 schools and colleges who use these bags to fill books and stationery which are handed over to students during admission,” says V. Jaiganesh, proprietor of the company. “I had two manual screen printing tables which were replaced by Grafica Nano-Print plus. My staff used to get tired of pulling and pushing the squeegee by hand as we had larger size sunpack board to print. The benefit of automation is such that my business has also increased by 50%,” he reveals. “I am fully satisfied with the Grafica's screen printing machine. And, even if we are in remote place, service is not a deterrent factor when it is needed the most,” he concludes.

(L-R) Jagadish Agarwal, Niten Agarwal and Rahul Agarwal

Rahul Agarwal - have stepped in to overseas their wide spectrum of printing business. “Our strategy from the very beginning (1997) was to become number one print solution provider in Asansol and that is why we have invested in multi technology print processes (our USP!). As a result we never say 'No' and accept any type of printing jobs,” says Niten Agarwal who is an BE (electronics). Grafica connection: “We started receiving Grafica News regularly following our visit to their stall at an expo in

Kolkata. By reading this magazine, we came to know about the new concepts of value addition, and graphics screen printing, and creative wedding cards printing,” says Niten. “Our confidence with Grafica brand is such that without visiting their factory we ordered for their screen printing machine. To our surprise not only the machine was fantastic, but also we received immense onsite training from their team. It was indeed a tremendous contribution of Grafica,” he concludes. V. Jaiganesh (extreme right)

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Raju Screen Printer, Gudiyatham We used to print tin boards of 4 x 4 and 5 x 3 feet size for tobacco and snuff dealer shops”, recalls Prem Raju.

D Prem Raju, proprietor of Raju Screen Printer, Gudiyatham (Tamil Nadu) is a print professional with vast experience in graphics screen printing for over two decades. Nurtured by his dad B.V. Damodaran, Raju has been personally printing tin boards, cloth banners since 1999. The company has their 6000 sq.ft print factory at Gudiyatham. “After my study I joined my father's printing business. He used to work in textile screen printing.

In the 1970s Raju Screen Printer used to supply cloth banners to big corporate such as Johnson & Johnson, Hindustan Lever (now called Hindustan Unilever), Godrej and other big FMCGs. “I used to make 6 x 2 ft / 27” x 36” banners. Once I had supplied one lakh halftone banners for HUL /Lakme campaign. “With Grafica Camshell, we print sunpack boards regularly (both halftone and spot colors). These display boards are supplied to companies engaged in Mobile, Food and Beverage, Cement, Pharma, Financial /Banking in the state of Tamil Nadu.

“After started using Grafica 20” x 30” Camshell, I never think of any other screen printing machines. Their Camshell is such a fantastic screen printing machine for printing advertising display boards on rigid substrates,” says Raju.

After marriage, his better half, Sudha joined the business. She takes personal interest in screen printing and administration.

printing technology perfectly. We had problems in graphics screen printing (multi color printing on sunpack). In halftone printing, we encountered darkening problems mainly in magenta and cyan. We used to face dot gain and moiré problem. Once for all, I could find root causes and solutions to all these problems. I also learnt how to set the image resolution and LPI percentage and new FM screening for moiré free printing. File handling, color separation for halftone/CMYK, screen making for halftone printing, mesh type, tips

to reduce ink consumption, perfect registration while printing CMYK, benefits of UV, are other important lessons that I learnt in DMI workshop” says Balamurali.

“We are satisfied with Grafica after sales service. We both of us are enjoying screen printing on

Dwaragamai Screen, Chennai Chennai based Dwaragamai Screen has invested in Grafica CamShell (30” x 40”), a semi automatic screen printing machine, to print advertising display boards on rigid substrates such as sunpack, tin sheets, sunboard. They also print cloth / satin banners and flags. “About 30% of the orders are cut color jobs and the remaining are halftone prints with sizes ranging from 1 x 1 ft (min) to 2 ft x 3 ft (max),” says M.S. Rengan, proprietor of Dwaragamai Screen, They print cloth banners (8 x 3 ft) which are supplied to customers in major cities of Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, and Gujarat. Similarly, Sunpack display boards are supplied to customers in the states of Karnataka, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu. “Majority of the customers are from Real Estate, Education sector, Banks and Financial Institutions, Political parties, malls, stores, shops, jewelry, garments, electronics shops, et al,” says Rengan. Grafica connection: “While searching on the internet we found Grafica's name prominently appearing on top.

Besides this confidence, we also enquired among the industry friends who gave fairly good opinion about Grafica. We had also evaluated other local machines which were found out to be inferior. We would have been in trouble had we bought these cheaper machines to save money. After we bought Grafica machine, a local manufacturer also approached us to buy their machine. We straight away showed them the door, because for us Grafica was already a trusted brand,” says Rengan. He adds: “We are completely satisfied with Grafica machine and their after sales service. I would say the cost of Grafica machine is perfect and reasonable in line with the quality of their machine and performance. Camshell is technically sound machine for halftone printing on sunpack as it gives accurate registration.” DMI experience: “Along with our operator I had attended DMI's workshop on advanced screen printing with special focus on graphics and value addition. DMI is a complete package to learn advanced screen printing. DMI is the only institute where I could learn the screen

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Shree Moon Graphics, Erode Screen/Digital Printing

Adzone Printers, Alappuzha Screen/Digital/Offset Printing Deepu P., proprietor of Adzone Printers in south Kerala explains why he decided to invest in advanced screen printing technology in addition to the digital and offset printing set up which he started about 10 years ago.

Shree Moon Graphics is a digital and screen printing service provider in Erode with three lines of printing businesses - vinyl stickers, flex printing, and graphics screen printing. V. Annamalai, proprietor of Shree Moon Graphics has been in the printing business for over 25 years with special focus on indoor/outdoor advertising. Taking benefit of his graphic designing skills, he started off his own printing business in a 160 sq.ft space. “As a hand paint artist, I used to make banners and advertising display boards,” he recalls. Now his 1300 sq.ft x 5 floors factory houses 2 wide format Digital presses (print upto 10 ft), an Inkjet printer for small quantity jobs, Stickers, indoor advertising. The company prints and supplies outdoor advertising display boards

to education sector, textile, hospitals, engineering, automobile sectors in Tamil Nadu and Kerala states. “As a digital print solution provider, I would still say that Screen printing process is an important part of our business when it comes to printing outdoor advertising display boards. Because it has good outdoor durability; it is economical too when it comes to large quantity,” says Annamalai.

Their offset unit prints tags for coir industry, and all the advertising jobs such as flex/ banners are undertaken by their digital printing unit. “We had to invest in screen printing as certain jobs could not be printed by digital and offset printing process,” says Deepu. So, the company has invested in Grafica's Nano-Print plus and complete screen making set up (Nano-Screen Maker 5-in-1). Besides screen printing machine,

Factory Address

GRAFICA FLEXTRONICA Plot No. 26, Survey No. 62, H. No. 2 & 3, Village Waliv, Vasai East, Taluka: Vasai. Dist. Palghar, Pin 401208, Maharashtra, India Follow us on: facebook.com/dmiinstitute @graficaindia

“Grafica's screen printing machine is mainly used to print advertising display boards on sunpack. Spare capacity is used to print wedding cards, non woven and paper bags for shops, and transparent stickers for coir industry. We print 2 x 2 ft and 1 x 1.5 ft sign boards. These are cut color jobs meant for big shops, malls, finance companies, educational institutes,” says Deepu. “Grafica team rendered complete onsite training. And distance no bar as far as after sales service is concerned,” he concludes.

“Before buying Grafica machine, I had other screen printing machines which we disposed off due to its troublesome and pathetic performance. On the other hand, Grafica Nano Print plus is a nonproblematic machine. It is a production oriented machine and perfect for multi color screen printing on sunpack sheets,” he concludes.

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their 2500 sq.ft printing unit houses 3 single color offset, complete post press equipment, a digital press and a wedding card show room.

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