The printing industry is undergoing a gradual yet significant shift from offset toward digital printing. Initiated by growing demands for high printing volumes followed by the incessant need to outsource, digital production printing has opened up new avenues for print service providers. It has also helped in revolutionizing businesses in many new different ways.
Commenting on this transition, Ramamurthy of Padmasri Digital Prints in Bengaluru states, “Over a period of time, short run printing demands accompanying more applications have led print firms to align themselves towards digital printing and this has been one of the primary reasons that we have installed three production printers within a time span of merely three years.”
Padmasri Digital Prints was started by Ramamurthy in the year 2008 who began his printing journey in the mid 80s with a letterpress. Owning an entry level production printer with a monthly volume of approximately
15,000 pages, Padmasri Digital moved to a completely digital setup in 2008 and associated itself with Konica Minolta in 2009 with its C6501 printer supported by HCL, and is currently the proud owner of three KM bizhub Press C8000 presses.
The KM bizhub C8000 is a digital production printer offering a broad range of capabilities to meet varying customer demands particularly that of increased productivity. The machine has more than 10,000 sheets paper capacity and can print up to 500,000 A4 pages a month.
Aimed at providing customers with competitively priced quality colour printing, the bizhub Press C8000 manages to reduce overheads primarily by cutting down on offset charges for processes like wash ups, inks and plates. In order to manage heavy printing volumes, the bizhub Press C8000 possesses exclusive built- in technologies. While the dual fusing feature supports heavier stock providing offset quality images without the time constraints of using an offset production press, the de- curling and air vacuum paper feeding Aimed at providing customers with competitively priced quality colour printing, the bizhub Press C8000 manages to reduce overheads primarily by cutting down on offset charges for processes like wash ups, inks and plates. In order to manage heavy printing volumes, the bizhub Press C8000 possesses exclusive built- in technologies. While the dual fusing feature supports heavier stock providing offset quality images without the time constraints of using an offset production press, the de- curling and air vacuum paper feeding Mumbai-based printer bets on web to print ensures that even heavy paper stock moves quickly and smoothly through the system.
Ramamurthy further stated, “We are one of the leading printing solution providers based in Bengaluru and provide services to more than 500 printer customers. As a result of such a growing demand, we at Padmasri Digital Prints wanted a printer which could provide us with bulk printing capacity. Hence Konica Minolta became our first and last resort for expanding our printing base. The instalment of three KM bizhub Press C8000s since 2011 has provided us with exceptional returns on investments primarily due to its fine quality print output, satisfactory after- sale services and the capacity to continuously print 18,000 pages in eight hours.”
Providing his final remarks on the product, Ramamurthy said, “We are happy to have invested in Konica Minolta machines at the right time. The company provides the best options in terms of technology that too at extremely affordable prices and KM’s bizhub Press C8000 is still to be explored for its full potential by our enterprise
