Noida-based Creative Concepts and Solutions has enhanced its book-binding capacity and capabilities with the recent addition of a BW@2500 from Bindwel in its post-press segment. According to Puneet Bajaj, director of Creative Concepts and Solutions, the 6-clamp perfect binder installed in March 2024, has substantially enhanced its daily book production from 5,000 to 15,000 volumes. For printing the books and manuals that it produces, the company uses a Heidelberg 2-color perfecting sheetfed offset press.
With calibrated book clamps and a thickness indicator, the perfect binding machine runs at a speed of 2,500 cycles an hour. It can bind books ranging from 150 mm x 100 mm to 440 mm x 230 mm. The smart human-machine interface (HMI) control system provides all the information on settings, and production, helping to improve efficiency.
Beyond its entire book printing and production services, Creative Concepts and Solutions offers a wide range of designing services, including corporate branding solutions. Established in 1998, it initially outsourced its printing work. However, eight months ago, the company made a strategic decision to bring the entire printing production process in-house.
Bajaj explains, “You don’t get big orders until you have everything in-house.” The move, he said, was motivated by several key factors, including job security, quality control, cost-effectiveness, and meeting deadlines.
During an interaction with the company’s directors Puneet Bajaj and Sumit Bajaj at their Noida office, the younger brother Sumit said customization is the new game in the industry. He stressed the importance of constantly innovating and coming up with new ideas to stay strong in the business. For him, customization ideas can come from any side, be it the customer or the printer. The execution of these ideas, however, is the printer’s job. Therefore, printers need to constantly search for new technologies in the market to serve their clients better.
The Creative Concepts team is more focused on printing books for the education sector. Though textbooks are generally considered a seasonal business, the brothers say that coaching institutions are continuously in need of printed materials, which is why the education printing work is no longer a seasonal business for them. The brothers informed us about their expansion plan at a new and larger location in Noida – it is planned that the new plant will be equipped with several new equipment and machines for pre-press, printing, and post-press-related finishing and binding work.
