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Even in its earlier incarnation in Delhi

Award Packaging started in the galas of Lower Parel in Mumbai and set up a 25

Just a decade ago

We recently went to Kolkata to meet Debashish Sarkar of Classic Image Offset Press — one of the most important label printers and converters in the industry. With three units in and near the Chaulpatti Road area, the unit where we met Sarkar, looked deceptively small from outside, but once we entered we realized it was large by Kolkata’s space starved standards. Luckily the road on which it is situated is devoid of any traffic jams.

The inkjet solutions for packaging went beyond the usual specialty marking systems to actually demonstrate the full scale colour production of large size board and corrugated cartons on machines such as the very fast and the SunJet that was demonstrated at a customer site near Dusseldorf. Many of the newer flatbed UV inkjet printers such as the HP Scitex XP5300 and XP 2700 can also be used for some of these POP applications. Both of these are near the dozen mark as far as Indian installs.

In absolute numbers, Interpack showed a 28 per cent rise in Asian visitors as compared to interpack 2005, and an increase of 32 per cent in Indian visitors. Many of the visitors returned to Düsseldorf hardly a month later for drupa08. A visitor survey undertaken by Messe Düsseldorf indicates that 78 per cent of the visitors were interested in process technologies and equipment for packaging and converting.

EskoArtwork’s fully-owned subsidiary and Global Resource Centre at Bangalore will be headed by Mr.  Dinesh Chandra, who has been overseeing Esko’s Indian operations since 2000. According to Mr. Chandra, “The opening of the Global Resource Centre in Bangalorre reinforces EskoArtwork’s global market coverage, complementing the resources we have already deployed in Europe, North America and the Far East.”

The main emphasis was on shelf ready packaging (SRP) highlighted at theme-oriented collective pavilions at the show’s Innovation Parc for Packaging. Participants in the pavilions included, among others, Heidelberg, MAN Roland, EskoArtwork, Metro, M-Real, Siegwerk, Smurfit-Kappa and COPACO. Products on display reflect the industry’s major trends such as the increased use of robots, software integration, RFID, bioplastics, waste reduction, recycling and energy saving technologies.

Acigraf – Hall 9, Stand A55
Acigraf is a manufacturer of engraving systems for gravure cylinders and allied equipment. At drupa, they will be showcasing their new Electronic Engraving System for gravure cylinders for package printing, transfer, wall papers and other applications. The system is integrated with image interpolation based on micro technology. The interface is a PC that works on a Microsoft Windows NT operating system.

Last month we discussed in some detail the arguments for Web Enabled Collaboration. We saw that it can be a very efficient mechanism for managing the flow of documents and instructions between the participants of a print project. Many of these collaboration solutions started off as simple monitoring functions added onto production workflow systems. The initial design goal was to allow management and marketing to peep at production from wherever they were. Production, of course, was confident that no harm could befall them as long as they controlled the underlying IT systems, which was the case in most installations. In fact, the early adopters did not feel any change for many years. The systems available in the nineties were not very easy to use and many non-technical users were still coming to terms with setting up a decent spread sheet. When management finally began to monitor production (albeit at first to justify the investment made in these systems) they realised the potential was far greater than what was initially envisaged. Marketing (or at least the believers among them) saw a whole new opportunity. If they could be in a city office and look at artwork hosted on a production server at a remote site, why not invite the customer to have a look?