Opinion

Print industry is bullish: say Dr Alok Bharadwaj, Vipin Tuteja and Puneet Chadha

PrintWeek India speaks to a cross-section of industry experts at Ipex, and solicits their views

Innovation, not rock-bottom pricing, key to print success

While debating the finer points of the differing UK and German attitudes to manufacturing last weekend, one point of universal agreement was that innovation is always the most important factor in...

TECHNICAL TUTORIAL: Abhiram Sathe talks about processing the plate

The plate processing method can be classified as 'pre-heat' and 'without pre-heat'.

Enterprise zones have poor record for creating growth

Last month the government announced the creation of the second tranche of enterprise zones - 11 new areas that follow on from the 11 named in the March Budget.

Web will take no prisoners if the numbers don't add up

It seems that the ongoing saga of industrial action at Wyndeham Impact is set to reach a sorry conclusion. But while the conspiracy theorists have suggested Impact's demise has something to do with...

Wake up to the benefits an apprenticeship can deliver

The decision to take on an apprentice may be a difficult one for many companies, especially SMEs. Some employers think it will be too expensive, too bureaucratic or just irrelevant.

"Print will remain strong," says Trevor Crawford, event director for Ipex South Asia 2011

Keeping in sync with its format that will see live working machinery demonstrations take place in the Indian sub-continent, Ipex South Asia is all set to open doors from September 16-19, 2011 at BEC...

Technical Tutorial: Pankaj Sharma, deputy manager business development at Siegwerk India talks about Emulsification

Emulsion is a mixture of ink and dampening solution. In this process, dampening solution is distributed evenly throughout the ink in small droplets.

It'll be no holiday but print is looking at a bright future

August is the time of year that journalists usually dread; what with the holiday season being in full swing and a dearth of serious news as a result - hence its 'silly season' moniker.

Print Stations not suited to more 'mature' economies

HP introduced Marketsplash in the US almost three years ago as a means of giving SMEs access to web-to-print capabilities.

"Why I love small sheetfed offset" by Sachin Shardul

Many years ago when Hanumantha Rao of Pragati Offset Printers was the president of the All India Federation of Master Printers, in an interview, he spoke of the progress Bharat (as opposed to India)...

Is Heidelberg covering its bases or hedging its bets?

It's taken Heidelberg over five years in development to bring on-stream the largely home-grown Linoprint DoD reel-to-reel digital inkjet solution.