Provin Technos signs 3 RMGT press orders at Print China 2019

Multivista Global installs an RMGT 8-color perfector in Chennai

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L-R: Kartik Ravi, director, Multivista Global, Pradeep Nandagopal, Vinay Kaushal and Uttara Kaushal all of Provin Technos at the Provin Technos office in New Delhi
L-R: Kartik Ravi, director, Multivista Global, Pradeep Nandagopal, Vinay Kaushal and Uttara Kaushal all of Provin Technos at the Provin Technos office in New Delhi

Print China has always attracted a large number of Indian printers. At this year’s show, many of the Indian attendees showed serious interest in the multiple technologies on display. RMGT displayed two sheetfed offset presses at the show, the first being an RMGT 10 series 105 cm format Tandem perfector and the second, an RMGT 9 series 92 cm convertible perfector.

The RMGT 10 series is a B1 size press suitable especially for cartons with performance enhancing features and cutting-edge technology. The Tandem perfector is RMGT’s patented technology allowing single pass both-side printing without the need of reversing the paper. The reverse-side printing units are connected to conventional straight printing units by a translink unit that conveys sheets from reverse-side printing units to front-side printing units, providing both printing speed and quality. The Tandem perfector can print 105 cm sheets at 16,000 sheets an hour.

The RMGT 9 series is an A1 size press suitable for both commercial as well as packaging jobs. It can be equipped with a convertible perfector, which is a three-drum arrangement that ensures ensures smooth sheet reversing, sheet transfer and high printing quality during perfecting even at its top speed of 13000 sheets an hour.

Miyakoshi, on the other hand, displayed a high performance 20-inch full color duplex inkjet printing press ‒ the MJP20E. This is a web-fed digital press aimed at the commercial market with a print resolution of 600 xa 1200 dpi using Kyocera inkjet heads. The Miyakoshi MJP20E digital press uses water-based inks and is capable of printing at speeds up to 127 meters a minute with high image quality. Its stable structure, space-saving design along with the variety of inline processing and finishing options to choose from makes it a highly sophisticated short-run commercial printing press.

Both RMGT and Miyakoshi, which are represented by Provin Technos in India, received an excellent response during the show which helped them close multiple orders for the China market. Provin Technos met with success at the show with the closing of three orders – two for sheetfed offset presses in the B2 size and another for an A1 size sheetfed press.

RMGT 9 series 8-color perfector comes to Multivista in Chennai

Provin has recently installed an RMGT 9 series, 8-color convertible perfector press at Multivista Global in Chennai. This press is equipped with performance enhancing features such as program inking with AI function, automatic nip checking, maintenance mode, automatic blanket cleaning device and other features and options. Multivista is of course one of the leading Indian book printers and book printing exporters.

2023 promises an interesting ride for print in India

Indian Printer and Publisher founded in 1979 is the oldest B2B trade publication in the multi-platform and multi-channel IPPGroup. While the print and packaging industries have been resilient in the past 33 months since the pandemic lockdown of 25 March 2020, the commercial printing and newspaper industries have yet to recover their pre-Covid trajectory.

The fragmented commercial printing industry faces substantial challenges as does the newspaper industry. While digital short-run printing and the signage industry seem to be recovering a bit faster, ultimately their growth will also be moderated by the progress of the overall economy. On the other hand book printing exports are doing well but they too face several supply-chain and logistics challenges.

The price of publication papers including newsprint has been high in the past year while availability is diminished by several mills shutting down their publication paper and newsprint machines in the past four years. Indian paper mills are also exporting many types of paper and have raised prices for Indian printers. To some extent, this has helped in the recovery of the digital printing industry with its on-demand short-run and low-wastage paradigm.

Ultimately digital print and other digital channels 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. For instance, there is no alternative to a rise in textbook consumption but this segment will only reach normality in the next financial year beginning on 1 April 2023.

Thus while the new normal is a moving target and many commercial printers look to diversification, we believe that our target audiences may shift and change. Like them, we will also have to adapt with agility to keep up with their business and technical information needs.

Our 2023 media kit is ready, and it is the right time to take stock and reconnect with your potential markets and customers. Print is the glue for the growth of liberal education, new industry, and an emerging economy. We seek your participation in what promises to be an interesting ride.

– Naresh Khanna

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