Heidelberg India not too long ago organised an consciousness seminar about packaging printing and UV options with its associate IST in Kolkata.
On the occasion, Udo Fiebiger, regional enterprise supervisor, Heidelberg Asia Pacific, shared his views on newest tendencies in packaging printing and market; whereas Peter Rego, normal supervisor for gross sales, Heidelberg India shared the entire vary of Heidelberg options from pre-press to post-press; Thomas Gohl, gross sales supervisor for Asia Pacific, IST METZ spoke on Heidelberg and IST options and Saseendran Baskaran, assistant normal manager-sales, Heidelberg India shared his views on evaluating ROI and advantages of Heidelberg and IST/UV.
The delegates additionally witnessed a six-colour plus coating job being printed on a 320gsm board with typical inks.
Throughout his presentation, Rego mentioned, “Heidelberg has put in greater than 1000 models of CD 102 press in India. Round 80 clients pan-India have been delivering high quality prints utilizing this press. It simply proves that Heidelberg walks the discuss. And worldwide, we have now greater than 60,000 models put in for CD102. ”
Fiebiger mentioned, “Heidelberg is concentrated on packaging printing from 1986 and it’s the solely firm which might present options from pre-press to post-press. And totally different applied sciences like offset, flexo and digital below one umbrella. Color corrections and registration are two essential issues and thru new applied sciences you are able to do it very quick and with much less manpower. After a interval, you possibly can see the how a lot you might be saving on the machines.”
He additional mentioned, “Completely different substrates like metallic, glass, plastic and wooden are utilizing for packaging these days. As per our examine, offset market shall be steady for packaging printing and it’ll develop. India and China would be the rising international locations on the planet and most a part of the expansion will come from these international locations.”
Rego concludes, “It exhibits the chances opened up by UV printing, highlights the benefits and drawbacks and exhibits the options Heidelberg is ready to provide its clients. UV printing offers some glorious benefits like inks and coatings harden instantly, larger stage of gloss, better scratch resistance, very particular really feel, printing on non-absorptive supplies, powder financial savings, print product may be completed instantly, environmentally appropriate.”
The occasion was attended by greater than 20 printers of the area.
