Arrow Digital displayed the Vutek GS3250LX Pro printer at the recently concluded Pamex 2017. The printer was sold to Prince Digi Graphics of Mumbai. Arrow Digital is the India representative of EFI.
“Prince Digi Graphics is an old customer of ours. They are not new to Arrow nor are they new to Vutek. So, with the Vutek GS3250LX Pro printer they have upgraded to the next level,” said Sam Patel, managing director, Arrow Digital.
The Efi-Vutek GS3250LX Pro is a 3.2-meter wide flatbed and roll-to-roll UV printer with image quality of up to 1000 dpi, production speeds up to 2400 square feet per hour and excellent color gamut. It has a 10-color configuration – eight colors and two whites.
Patel also shed light on the Vutek 5r, which was launched at EFI Connect 2017, and said that by February 2018, there will be four installations of Vutek 5r in India.
Talking about some trends in the signage industry, he said that soft signage applications are gaining currency fast and that the whole retail industry will switch to soft signage in the next couple of years.
In 2018, Arrow will focus on green media applications, 3D and thermoforming.
The Covid-19 pandemic led to the country-wide lockdown on 25 March 2020. It will be two years tomorrow as I write this. What have we learned in this time? Maybe the meaning of resilience since small companies like us have had to rely on our resources and the forbearance of our employees as we have struggled to produce our trade platforms.
The print and packaging industries have been fortunate, although the commercial printing industry is still to recover. We have learned more about the digital transformation that affects commercial printing and packaging. Ultimately digital will help print grow in a country where we are still far behind in our paper and print consumption and where digital is a leapfrog technology that will only increase the demand for print in the foreseeable future.
Web analytics show that we now have readership in North America and Europe amongst the 90 countries where our five platforms reach. Our traffic which more than doubled in 2020, has at times gone up by another 50% in 2021. And advertising which had fallen to pieces in 2020 and 2021, has started its return since January 2022.
As the economy approaches real growth with unevenness and shortages a given, we are looking forward to the PrintPack India exhibition in Greater Noida. We are again appointed to produce the Show Daily on all five days of the show from 26 to 30 May 2022.
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