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, basic 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 basic 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 standard inks.
Throughout his presentation, Rego stated, “Heidelberg has put in greater than 1000 models of CD 102 press in India. Round 80 clients pan-India have been delivering superb 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 stated, “Heidelberg is concentrated on packaging printing from 1986 and it’s the solely firm which may present options from pre-press to post-press. And totally different applied sciences like offset, flexo and digital underneath 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 may see the how a lot you might be saving on the machines.”
He additional stated, “Totally different substrates like metallic, glass, plastic and wooden are utilizing for packaging these days. As per our examine, offset market will likely be secure for packaging printing and it’ll develop. India and China would be the rising international locations on the earth and most a part of the expansion will come from these international locations.”
Rego concludes, “It exhibits the probabilities opened up by UV printing, highlights the benefits and drawbacks and exhibits the options Heidelberg is ready to supply its clients. UV printing gives some glorious benefits like inks and coatings harden instantly, greater degree of gloss, larger scratch resistance, very particular really feel, printing on non-absorptive supplies, powder financial savings, print product could be completed instantly, environmentally appropriate.”
The occasion was attended by greater than 20 printers of the area.