The Printers House which is one of the largest Indian and oldest web offset press manufacturers in India continues to supply more automated presses to the newspaper market in India and overseas. The company is also one of the first Indian companies that first showed its presses at drupa in the 1980s. It will be there again this year in a 90 square metre stand next to KBA. For some years, TPH and KBA have had an agreement for sales of each other’s presses. While the newspaper industry has seen its ups and downs over the past three years, TPH continues to manufacture, sell and install its presses at a more or less steady pace.Â
With the increase of color printing in newspapers and increased run-lengths for book production TPH is among the leading manufacturers of single width presses to incorporate automation in both user environments. In the past year the company installed its first automated 4-color book printing press at Tamil Arasu Press in Tamil Nadu in South India. Consisting of a single 4-Hi tower for printing full process color on both sides of the web, the press configuration includes an automatic reel changer, digital presetting and remote inking, remote ink feeding and auto-registration and cut-off controls. The TPH press at Tamil Arasu contains a spray dampening system and a UV curing system. TPH has supplied many automated presses to export markets but this is the first automated press that it has supplied in India – reflecting the trend to produce higher quality color with increased automation on single width web offset presses.Â
On the newspaper side, TPH recently supplied and installed two Orient X-Press 50,000 copies an hour presses to the Hindi daily Amar Ujala for its Noida and Lucknow plants. Both these press lines have high automation with shaftless drives, auto registration and cut-off controls. Using Megtec splicers, both presses at Amar Ujala comprise five 4-Hi towers and a mono unit with a rotary folder and have been in full production over the past several months.
TPH has also supplied and installed an Orient X-Cel, 36000 cph shaftless web offset press comprising 5 tower and a folder with Megtec splicers to the Marathi daily Lokmat. Lokmat Media has placed a repeat order with the same configuration which is currently being supplied. Another Orient X-Cel 36,000 cph press with six 4-Hi towers has been supplied to and installed by DB Corp. Add-on 4-Hi towers for increased color pagination continue to be supplied to TPH-Orient customers such as Hindustan Media, DB Corp, Lokmat Media and other newspapers and printing plants.
TPH continues to export its automated web offset presses especially to customers in Asia and Africa. Two fully automated Orient X-Cel 36,000 cph press lines have been installed by the Nigerian Punch daily newspaper at its plants in Abuja and Port Harcourt. Each of the two fully automated presses has five 4-Hi towers and a 2:2 folder. Punch is the biggest daily newspaper in Nigeria and one of the largest web offset press users in all of Africa. TPH book printing press exports also continue apace with recent sales and installations in Ghana, Bangladesh and Myanmar.Â
TPH is again participating in drupa 2016 with a stand next to KBA with which it has a mutual sales agreement. The company’s entire marketing team will be present for all 11 days of the show.
