Vinsak, global pioneer in print and packaging industry, organized a seminar titled- Labelling Simplified at Hotel Tunga Regale, Mumbai in December 2017. The Lombardi and Iwasaki International co-sponsored seminar focussed on label printing and finishing technologies. The seminar was attended by around 50 plus printers and converters. A panel discussion in the end touched topics like demonetization, GST, buying a branded machine and ROI.
Sanjdip Kandhari, director of Vinsak, kicked off the seminar by offering insights about thr Indian label industry and trending label technology. It was followed by an address on flexo technology by Nicola Lombardi, marketing manager at Lombardi. Lombardi spoke about their solutions in flexo technology for labels and its finishing solutions. Talking about Invicta, a flexographic printing machine from Lombardi, he said, “Invicta Print Unit is a revolutionary concept of full automation. Electronical positioning of cliche sleeve is differently from other systems. Invicta automatically finds the operative print position by its electronical motors, calculating the correct position depending on the format. The pneumatical locking system allows perfect irreversibility of motion. While, there is no requirement of any mechanical adaptor after format change.”
He listed down some more features about Invicta such as
Electronical pressures: Both the cliché and the anilox pressures are motorized by means of step motors, allowing a fine encoder regulation.
Hi-DynamiX system: The blade is pressured against the anilox roller with pneumatical system, determining an auto-adaptive pressure dynamic, resulting in the best ink distribution.
Quick tank changeover: Possibility to change the tank without changing the anilox, to perfrom quick ink change.
Forefront electroncs: Fully automatic electronic pre-registration system: minimum material waste, minimum waste of time, maximum precision.
Fully automatic register controls with parametrizaion system for perfect registration on extensible materials.
Electronical tension control for perfect tensioning of different substrates and quality analysis system.
Naoki Ogawa, director, Iwasaki International, Japan, spoke about intermittent offset presses. He said, “The intermittent presses have managed to sustain because of consistent and high-quality printing as well finishing of labels. We are even working towards developing a technology where an offset printer can seamlessly install a semi-rotary flexo press without a new prepress system.”
In the end, the seminar had a brief discussion on recent trends in label printing. The panel consisted of Ajay Agarwal from Syndicate Labels, Gurudutta from PrintMann, Manish Desai from Mudrika Labels, Ranesh Bajaj from Vinsak, Nicola Lombardi and Naoki Ogawa.
Panel discussion at the seminar
The panel discussed various issues on the labelling and printing industry like those of demonetization and GST. Manish Desai, said, “The industry was not directly affected if printers are concerned. We are in the service industry. Our clients were affected that led us some impact on payments.”
Speaking on buying a branded machine, Ajay Agarwal, said, “Sometimes buying a branded machine makes it very important as clients visit our workstations and to reflect quality, we need to invest on brands. The decision whether or not to buy a branded machine is completely dependent on printer but in India printers tend to buy one or two branded machines while others are locally manufactured ones.”
Another topic discussed was ROI. Almost all from the panel supported the fact that ROI over a machine is subjective and while some companies may invest in machines consistently after regular intervals as considering their need.
Quality
About quality factor Ranesh Bajaj and Manish Desai observed that quality is a factor where a printer generally revolves around while deciding to buy a machine. When the printer is handling jobs for products from pharma and food which are sensitive for export markets, definitely the printer will try to provide quality under certain parameters and will upgrade infrastructure accordingly, they said.
