An Komori customer for years, Sonepat (Haryana)-based Officenow India has been relying only on the brand’s string of presses for extensive tasks of printing premium quality educational books of all types and sizes. A line of brand new Lithrone G Series presses from Komori India are playing a pivotal role in driving efficiency and productivity in the company’s book printing, ensuring quality and consistency.
Incepted in 2013, Officenow India has been a full-fledged book printer, providing educational books to schools, colleges, and academic institutes. “We are the first-generation book printer. From one level to another, we keep scaling up production as well as quality in prints with constant upgrades of our infrastructure and machine portfolio. Our ambition is to be in the league of biggest and premier book printers in India,” says Puneet Chitkara, founder-director, Officenow India.
Chitkara adds, “It has been more than a decade since we predominantly use only Komori presses in our production facility. To date, we have owned seven Komori presses of different models and configurations. Of them, three are brand new and the rest pre-owned models. We never go away from Komori presses because of their capacities revolving around quality, speed and productivity as well as team Komori India’s dedicated after-sales support.”
The first brand new Komori press at Officenow India, a 4-color Lithrone G37, was installed in 2022. After that, the company kept on focusing only on brand new presses. Currently, three brand new Komori G Series presses at Officenow India’s production facility are aligning perfectly with the company’s vision to produce premium quality educational books.
Officenow India has fully equipped pre-press, press, and post-press units. “We manage everything of plate-making, printing, binding, finishing, and dispatching under one roof,” says Chitkara, adding the company’s pre-press and post-press units have Topaz thermal CtP, Aster sewing machines, Stahl folding machines, Electro Mac six clamps, Muller Martini flow line, Hi-Tech laminator, Rokin case maker, Megabond cast in machine, etc.
“However, arrival of any new press in our facility is turned out to be only Komori, a brand we have trusted for years. We have recently placed an order for a brand new 8-color Lithrone G37 from Komori India, which will mark our eighth Komori to date,” says Chitkara, adding the company’s portfolio of presses & printing machines is predominated by Komori, except a few including a Jinbao screen printing machine.
An alumnus of Pusa Institute of Technology, New Delhi, and a trained printing technologist, Chitkara is optimistic about the future of educational book printing market. “Using the Komori presses, we currently engage in printing around 500 tonnes of papers per month. What we are targeting is to make it 700 tonnes soon with further investment in new presses,” he says.
According to Chitkara, Officenow India’s team of 120 well-trained and experienced staff is set to indulge in round-the-clock operation of their production facility of 50,000 sqft (constructed area) where the fleet of Komori presses are productively and efficiently running to print and produce soft and hardbound books.
“As of now, we are providing to the domestic market only. Our next-step plan is to engage in exports too. We have hired a new team for that. As our premise is now a bit congested, we are going to go for a green field expansion in future for producing more books for the offshore markets using more brand new Komori presses.”
