HP Indigo 7eco: Smart automation

- unveils the power of productivity with smart automation with HP Indigo 7eco Digital press.

HP Inc launched HP Indigo 7eco Digital Press at Pamex 2020. The new press is aimed at boosting productivity & quality by sustainable printing, with the help of advanced technology. The HP Indigo Digital Press is powered by HP Indigo’s milestone Indigo LEP Technology to consistently deliver best-in-class printing capabilities available in the market. The reliable technology enables one to easily fulfill the printing requirements of their customers for commercial, packaging and speciality jobs.

A.Appadurai, Country Manager, Indigo and PageWide Web Press, Graphics Solutions Business, HP Inc. India & Sri Lanka said, “With the launch of sustainable technology in the printing industry, HP aims to introduce the consumers to the latest innovations enabling them to increase their production at an affordable cost with less power consumption, manpower, production time and wastage. Introducing advanced digital capabilities are a part of HP’s commitment to provide the best solutions to help businesses in staying ahead of the curve.”

“We believe in limitless possibilities with digital printing and are happy to notice some of the very interesting projects and implementations by our Indian customers which is part of our showcase area at our booth,” he added.

Sharing insights on the importance of innovation in reaching out to the customers today, he suggested how advanced and differentiated printing applications can help brands develop a stronger brand recall with end customers and establish a competitive edge in the market using the unique power of mass customization and personalization.

HP Indigo 7eco Digital Press Setting a benchmark with sustainable technology, the HP Indigo 7eco Digital press offers quality and versatility, increasing productivity, efficiently for enterprises. With less manpower, media wastage and power consumption, HP Indigo 7eco Digital press is designed to deliver highly efficient print production.

Boosting productivity and quality with sustainable technology, the HP Indigo 7eco Digital Press can print up to 160 colour pages per minute using Enhanced Productivity Mode (EPM), which has the potential to simulate four-color using only C/M/Y. The use of three colour separations increases colour printing productivity by 33%, while the EPM printing consumes 25% less energy per printed page, further enhancing the sustainability of the press.

The access of the device to a comprehensive suite of software applications through the HP PrintOS secured cloud platform helps in increasing efficiency, automation and monitoring giving control over print operations. The colour automation feature complies with the toughest industry colour

standards, while saving time and costs with fewer colour adjustments and reprints.

Key HP Indigo 7eco Digital Press features include : • Wide application range–A wide application range offered by the HP Indigo 7eco Digital Press empowers the businesses to meet customer requests • Digital offset colour technology - HP Indigo’s Liquid Electrophotography (LEP) technology, using HP Indigo ElectroInk produces crisp linework, attractive images, and smooth vignettes, with a very thin ink layer that creates a uniform gloss between the ink and the substrate • Accurate color – The unique inline spectrophotometer makes it easy to meet colour standards and match colours • Sustainable solution – The manufacturing of the HP Indigo 7eco Digital Press is certified as CO2 Neutral • HP Print OS Site Flow – The most amazing workflow solution helping industrialise commercial printing by automating and driving volumes of commercial and speciality printing jobs.

HP Indigo technology combines all the advantages of its patented LEP printing process into a powerful digital printing solution over an extensive portfolio of digital presses for a wide variety of applications including General commercial print, Photo, Labels, Flexible Packaging and Folding Cartons. The technology is backed by the efficient combination of HP Indigo ElectroInk, thermal offset transfer and direct contact transfer which gives unmatched colour and ink capabilities, widest media and application versatility, high coverage printing, and highest speed for print quality application.

The innovative Indigo digital printing technology was shown live at HP Booth at PAMEX 2020, Bombay Exhibition Center, Goregaon, Mumbai. The technology highly impressed the show visitors, who, enabled by this powerful solution, can not only meet the demands of the end customers needs, but also target new markets and explore fresh revenue streams.

It was a great success for DGM Automation India at Pamex 2020 with 8 orders in hand and many serious enquires, reveals Puneet Aggarwal, Managing Director of the company.

With the year lined up with many important shows for DGM, Puneet sees it to be a great year ahead for the company. “We are very positive about this year and would better our growth figures especially considering many more important exhibitions like Sino Corrugated Donguan, DRUPA, Sino Corrugated India and All in Print China –Shangai are all lined up ahead,” he avers.

DGM has successfully invoiced 20 machines in India in 2019 and started 2020 with a highly positive note with 8 new orders in hand from PAMEX alone.

“Through PAMEX we were able to communicate with the market with demo of one of our products at the booth. We were also presenting DGM India, which is now a 100% share holding of DGM China, as having local manufacturing and also our demo centre functional from March 2020,” reveals Puneet.

DGM was focusing on SmartFold 1100PC Folder Gluer. Other highlighted products at the show included Diecutter, Hot Foil Stamping and Flute Laminator etc.

Ample Graphics had a great Pamex 2020 show. The company had displayed 4 machines. It had on show the new high speed Dry Lamination Machine with Hot Knife from Tiancen. The machine features marvellous speed of 100mtr/min.

On display was a Folder Gluer for plastic boxes from ChengLin Tech. “This versatile machine can process all types of plastic boxes, be it, Rigid PVC, PP or PET,” says Sachin Kala. “This machine has all the possible systems installed for side pasting, viz. Liquid Glue, PUR Glue or Hot Air,” adds Rajeev Jagga.

The company showcased a heavy duty Fully Automatic Foil Stamping Machine from Aoer and a Rigid Box line with Visual Positioning System from Lishunyuan.

“With the current state of economy we felt that the current PAMEX was a bit slower than the last edition. The total no of visitors as well as enquires were less than previous. It could also be in light of the forthcoming Drupa this year,” thinks Sachin. Ample Graphics booked 3 orders for its High Speed Lamination Machines.

“We had been focusing on automation equipment for making boxes – all types of boxes, mono-carton, rigid, corrugated. We were missing out on the market segment of plastic boxes. By adding the ChengLin Folder Gluer we have entered into this market also,” says Rajeev.

Tiancen had introduced its new model of

Dry Lamination Machine with a speed of 100 Mtr / Min in October 2019. Ample Graphics demonstrated this machine for the first time in India. “We are pleased with the initial response and were able to close 3 orders for this,” says Sachin.

Falcon Vacuum Pumps & Systems offers its complete range of Dry Vacuum Pumps at Pamex 2020.

Encouraged by the positive response Falcon Vacuum Pumps & Systems received at Pamex 2020, Amarpreet Singh - Group CEO, looks forward to a successful year ahead. “It was a good start at Pamex 2020 with a lot of good queries and we are hopeful of a better year as compared to the last one,” he says.

They entertained and interacted with printers from all across the country at their Pamex stand. The company focused on its complete range of Dry Vacuum Pressure Pumps at Pamex.

Falcon Vacuum Pumps & Systems offers a wide range of Dry Vacuum Pump, which is manufactured using superior grade raw material. These Dry vacuum Pumps are manufactured in line with the set industry standards and norms. These easy to maintain and operate Pumps are offered in varied specifications and are broadly used in printing, packaging, Food Processing and other industries. Falcon is one of the leading vacuum pumps, oil free vacuum pumps, oil lubricated pumps, vacuum pump spares suppliers and dry vacuum pumps manufacturers. With more than two decades of experience, Falcon sets the standard for producing dry vacuum pumps, vacuum pressure pumps, vacuum pumps and their spare parts of superior quality.

Grafik Machinery International started the year 2020 on a positive note with a good Pamex 2020 participation experience. They got a lot of serious enquiries from keen visitors who expressed interest in various solutions presented by the company at the show.

Kanishk Jain, sharing his experience at the Pamex show told PRESSIdeas that decision making isn’t quick in wake of present market conditions especially it being very competitive.

Grafik Machinery International offers a wide spectrum of UV Coating and Curing System along with a range of Carton Folder Gluers. It offered Interdeck UV System, UV Coating Machines - Online and Offline, Carton Folder Gluer for duplex and Corrugated Cartons, Spare parts for sheet fed offset and allied machines. “It is a buyers’ market. Price dominates the market and payments too have to be customer-friendly in present market situation. These are the points we focused at the show,” concludes Kanishk. The star product Grafik Machinery was focusing at Pamex was LED UV and Carton Folder Gluer.

Mr.Shankaracharya Laskar, Marketing Director, Xerox India

“The star product at our stall was indeed the Xerox Iridesse press which allows printing white, gold, silver and clear in one pass and has got an amazing response from the customers since its launch and today has installations all across the country,” shares Mr. Shankaracharya Laskar, Marketing Director, Xerox India. “Our endeavour is to provide technology and solutions to our customers which leads to a boost in their business opportunities in these competitive times with portfolio of key Xerox digital presses catering to high, mid and entry level business segments,” he adds.

Pamex, an exhibition organized by All India Federation of Master Printers in association with Print-Packaging.com where Xerox had a prominent stall and where PRESSIdeas talked to Mr.Shankaracharya, has always been a platform for Xerox to display the latest products and software from its stable to the visitors. This year too it has been no different and Xerox has yet again set the bar higher for print production with their range of products and services.

According to Shankaracharya, Iridesse, with installation pan-India, has given a leap to the Indian digital printing industry beyond

Secures eight orders; entertains high quality focused visitors.

CMYK and their other products on display at the show like the Versant V3100, Versant 180, C9065/C9070 offer more choices to the discerning printers in the country.

Xerox’s stall at Pamex also provided the first look of the new 100-ppm monochrome product Prime Link B9100, a light production printer which allows copy, print, scan and email with an ability of print up to 350-gsm as well as banner prints up to 26-inches.

Xerox stall at Pamex 2010

“Pamex has always been a good experience for Komori where we do get to connect with customers and introduce our solution bases products,” says Sangam Khanna of Komori, which was focusing its flagship GL 37+C at the show. “It’s been good but only the focused customers visited us this time,” he adds

He sees the current year better than the last year for Komori, as “the needs of the customers are transforming – instead of buying products they now focus of solutions and total solutions from end-toend,” according to Sangam.

Komori secured eight orders at the Pamex show. The details of the deals will be revealed after completion of all the formalities, says Sangam.

He is of the view that the best thing about Pamex was the quality of visitors who were very focused. “The quality of visitors helped us establish the real need of the customers. It was really exciting to see that the customer came with his home work done before Pamex,” emphasises Sangam.

Komori GL 37+C was their star product. “The GL 37+C is now getting high in Demand for its cost effectiveness in Packaging Solutions, Publishing and Commercial. To address all the three verticals of offset print, this was a good success and we hope to close many orders in this size,” reveals Sangam, who however missed the competition at the show as Komori was the only Offset manufacturer participating from the vertical.

Monotech sold two Xerox Iridesse units at the event and received decent leads for Scodix and the short-run label press i.e. JETSCI ColorAqua.

Monotech Systems’ Pamex 2020 stand remained crowded on all days of the show. “I must say Pamex 2020 was quite successful for us,” says Akash Kumar, Senior Manager – Marketing & Communications, Monotech Systems. “The show was extremely good for us. In fact, we were passive as far as expectation from the show is concerned considering the current economic situation in mind, but response was encouraging. We got a good number of leads and people showed interest in investing in the right technology. This edition of Pamex was much better than the previous edition in terms of footfall,” he adds.

Speaking of the last year performance and expectations for the present, he says, “We have achieved modest growth this year mainly because of the economic slowdown in the country. However, the company may register a better turnaround in Q4, which usually is the highest-grossing quarter. We stay positive and anticipate that the new financial year would be better.”

Displaying unique and high value products draw an attention of serious buyers and that differentiated Monotech Systems as a trusted brand from other participants and competition. “Experimenting with the launch of a label product in a commercial and digital show delivered us a good mileage,” says Akash.

Apart from the JETSCI ColorAqua, the star attraction at Monotech’s stand was the Scodix Ultra Pro with Foil. Explaining more about the digital print enhancement capabilities of Scodix, Akash points out that Digital print enhancement is becoming

a prominent subject of discussion for various companies in the printing industry. People realize that it provides a good business opportunity now. “We also feel that over a period of time, embossing and foiling will predominantly become digital. This transformation will give a new set of opportunities for people. For most of the commercial printers across the country, a huge opportunity for growth lies either in digital or in the packaging industry. This is the right time for commercial printers to diversify and explore the digital and packaging segments in order to survive and grow,” he concludes.

The recent Pamex 2020 proved a good show for Suba Solutions. The company had some successful order closures apart from attracting a great visitor interest for its showcased solutions.

“In volatile global economic conditions, lead time between order confirmation and execution has become unpredictable,” says Vaidy, Director Suba Solutions expressing his concern regarding present market conditions. “World economy is volatile and India is an integral part,” he adds.

“Even at Printpack we booked a lot of machines at the show. Nevertheless it took very long time for only some of them to convert,” he continues.

The show highlight by Suba was their Specialty V Cut Window Patcher. “For the first time in India and probably in the world we demonstrated a Specialty V Cut Window Patcher at the show that precisely patched a multi-colour printed film onto a window carton,” explains Vaidy.

“What was hitherto a see through space has been transformed into an area of creativity, branding and brand protection. It throws open a fantastic opportunity for Brand owners where their imagination would be the limitation,” he underlines.

“It was quite well received and we loved having been part of creating something

that is set to revolutionise the packaging industry,” he rejoices.

Suba had also displayed the offline blanker with special features at the show. They demonstrated one of the toughest jobs at the show which inspired confidence in the prospective buyers.

The specialty V Cut Window Patcher was, however, the star attraction at Suba’s Pamex stand. Machines on display: • Speciality / V-Cut Window Patching Machine. • Offline Stripping and Blanking Machine.

Pamex 2020 concludes on a successful note for Nulith, says Suresh Shah. “This Pamex we had a very good response and there were also many visitors from 2 & 3 Tier cities,” says Suresh adding, “Pamex created very positive sentiments and with the kind of response we got at the show we are sure 2020 will be better than the previous year.”

Suresh looked impressed with the technical development in 2 & 3 Tier cities as he saw customers from there looking for quality products which was a shift from low price products previously.

Suresh also observed printers now being more aware about health and environment safety. Nulith focused on Actega Food Safe Coatings & Rollin Coating Plates this time. They attracted keen interest from visitors of Pamex 2020.

For VINSAK Pamex is an important show. Mr. Mohan Pailwan, GM, looked quite excited at the outcome. “The show was well attended by serious visitors, with some serious plans for investments. It was great to see that our industry – despite challenging times – is very optimistic and proactive,” states Mohan.

“Pamex has always been an exciting part of the calendar for VINSAK and this year did not disappoint us either. It was a great opening for VINSAK with Pamex being the first show of the year 2020 and we were all charged up for it. Pamex for us is a time to demonstrate the innovations we’ve been working upon, as well as connect with customers old and new. As with all of our machines, we focus on improved workflow, reduced waste and providing our customers with market-leading finishing equipment,” adds an enthusiastic looking Mohan.

VINSAK had a great show with orders pouring in from the start. “The early signs from the exhibition were great. We enjoyed many insightful conversations and are pleased about the positive response,” continues Mohan. VINSAK’s range of products cover the entire array of printing – Pre-Press, Press and Post Press – but the Pamex 2020 show models were VINSAK USAR (Universal Slitter Rewinder) with Inspection System, Table Top Re-winder with Inkjet System and Roll Lifter.

“Pamex 2020 was a good show for Sheth Printograph with customers visiting from Western interior parts of India,” says Sonal Sheth sharing her experience at the recent Pamex show. “And we are glad to learn Tier II and III class cities are also now ready to invest in Automatic machines,” she emphasises.

Looking positive from the outcome of Pamex, Sonal is upbeat about the year 2020: “It should be good being Drupa year where new technologies for future will be unveiled. At Pamex we have booked good number of machines both from Packaging and Digital segment ranging from entry level to Automatic Laminators. And there are good enquiries to close soon.”

owing to increasing volumes and time bound customer commitments. “Under our Brand Shenso together with Sodhisons, we had displayed Automatic Stripping machine for Die cut jobs and ERP/MIS Software from Rogler Austria, which received overwhelming response. Stripping machine is already running successfully at number of customers all across India with repeat orders. Rogler software is also executed at Any Labels, Noida and Concord Printing, Baroda,” reveals Sonal. Recently, they have also installed KDX Automatic Lamination Machine with Hot Knife Cutting with 4 Servo drives at speed of 100mpm at Ramya Reprographics, Bangalore and Replica Press, Kundli.

At PAMEX 2020 Iridesse Production Press ushers in new era of printing ‘Beyond CMYK’.

Visitors to the PAMEX 2020 were greatly impressed by the capabilities of Xerox India’s marquee product Iridesse Production Presse. “Iridesse is the only digital press in the market that can print metallic gold or silver dry ink, CMYK and clear or white dry ink in a single pass, giving print providers an immediate competitive edge in the growing digital printing enhancement market,” says Mr. Vineet Gehani, Director, Technology & Channels, Xerox India.

Besides the Iridesse Color Production Press, Xerox showcased its range of future-ready digital printing presses including Versant V3100, Versant 180, PrimeLink C9065/C9070 and also provided the visitors the first look of a new 100 ppm Monochrome product Prime Link B9100 at the Mumbai exhibition. Print providers, from India and abroad got a closer look at the sophisticated print technology offerings of Xerox. It showcased its full strength across the segment through its powerhouse digital printing solutions such as: • Iridesse Production Press that ushers in a new era of production printing and brings to life the possibilities in printing beyond CMYK through digital specialty enhancements and color FLX technology where variety of effects can be created tough overlays and underlays of special metallic colours, white ink and clear ink. • Versant 3100 printer that provides automation and more productivity which helps you meet the highest production demands • Versant 180 printer that takes printing operation to the next level with automation and quality in a compact footprint. The press that has redefined the mid production space in the last 3 years of its launch with multiple installations. • PrimeLink 9065 Color printer that consists of colour MFP which offers a range of digital front ends to fit every print environment in addition to expanded media compatibility of 350 GSM and banner printing. • The New Prime Link B9100 monochrome light production printer which allow copy, print, scan and email with an ability of print upto 350 GSM in monochrome as well as banner prints upto 26”. A perfect fit for pay-for-print shops and centralized reprographic departments, the machine helps in increasing productivity, reducing costs and exceeding the customers’ demanding expectations

“This year, at PAMEX, we are exploring and showcasing the world beyond CMYK by displaying our versatile devices which allow better production for businesses helping them achieve efficiency in their work and boost their revenue with cutting-edge devices,” says Vineet Gehani.

Talking about Iridesse, Vineet adds, “It is overwhelming for us to showcase Iridesse Production Press at PAMEX this year. This product has seen stupendous success over the last 1.5 years of its launch with multiple installations. It allows printing white, gold, silver and clear specialty dry inks, all in one pass. Since its launch, we have received an amazing response from the customers

and it is surely one of the key highlights in Xerox’s journey. Our endeavour is to provide technology and solutions to our customers which leads to boost in their business opportunities. Along with Iridesse, we are also bringing a diverse portfolio of key digital presses catering to high, mid and entry level business segments.”

Xerox’s Iridesse Production Press, the Versants and the PrimeLink series are among the main attractions at PAMEX 2020. It is a key platform for industry loyalists of the printing world to come together under one roof, giving them an opportunity to showcase their products to customers and print providers.