Chennai-based PM Digital Products is a division of Palaniappa Brothers Group of companies, which has a legacy of 75 years in Tamil book publishing. The division is currently engaging in extensive digital printing activities with advanced print finishing capabilities to produce an array of finished products like corporate diaries, planners, calendars, stationery for kids, labels, stickers, as well as POD (print-on-demand) books.
With the recent installation of a PixelGlow Vertex, a digital UV & foiling system, PM Digital Products has enhanced its digital print enhancement. PixelGlow Vertex is ‘Made in India’ by Monotech Systems.
Chellappan, managing partner & chief technologist at PM Digital Products, said their tryst with Monotech began around a decade ago when they invested in Scodix. “Monotech Systems was the distributor of Scodix in India then. Since then we have nurtured a very close and amiable partnership with them. Today, we maintain the continuity of the partnership with the recent purchase of the PixelGlow Vertex digital UV & foiling system. This system is compact, automated, and capable of operating at high speed and high precision.”
Being the first AI-driven B2-size, fully-automated digital UV & foiling system, ever manufactured by an Indian company, PixelGlow Vertex combines cutting-edge technology with precision engineering. Offering seamless integration of UV coating and foiling excellence in a single system, it’s engineered for embellishing packaging products, book covers, photo albums, marketing collateral, and more. It handles B2+ sheets up to 520 x 730 mm with grammage starting from 170 gsm up to 600 gsm for creating multi-pass and high-gloss spot UV & variable foiling effects in resolution of 600 x 600 dpi. The AI-driven scanner in the system is designed for accurate registration.
“Print enhancement is vital. Ordinary prints go everywhere when we make them extraordinary with finishing. So, we keep investing in print embellishment machines from time to time. The new PixelGlow Vertex from Monotech is capable of handling several UV coating and foiling jobs such as variable data printing (VDP) on finished products such as wedding cards and such items. We embellish end-products because we want them rather to be felt than just seen,” Chellappan said. VDP capabilities of the PixelGlow Vertex include the personalised UV-coated printing of names and addresses on card covers.
Since its inception in the year 2005, PM Digital Products has been offering unique services which include an easy-to-use online platform where customers can log-in, design and customise a range of products, starting from business cards up to books.
Chellappan explains that any user can create personalised design or artwork, upload it on the platform, then, it can be printed and embellished at their production facility. “At competitive prices, we deliver end-products to the doorsteps of our customers, on their strictest deadlines,” he said.
PM Digital Products now offers go-to solutions for businesses, enterprises, and individuals looking for custom end-products, either in small or large print runs.
