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6 PRINTPACK INDIA 2019 SHOW DAILY 5 February 2019 | Supported by Indian Printer & Publisher and Packaging South Asia Visitors speak at Printpack India 2019 Prashanth – director, Hind Printers and Graphics, Udupi, Kerala Rohit Jain, director, The Offsetters (India) Pvt. Ltd., Patna, Bihar I came from Udupi in Ker- ala and this is my third visit to Printpack but my first visit to this exhibition at this loca- tion. This is a big show and it is organized well. I saw many interesting live running press- es. Since I am a commercial printer, I am looking for new sheetfed offset presses and postpress equipment. Although the offset print demand in our area (Udupi Kerala) is low be- cause of increasing digital, we are still positive and hopeful for the printing market to keep growing. However, we faced many difficulties to reach this exhibi- tion location. We had no idea about the exhibition venue and This is my 13th visit to Printpack. The current Print- pack is well organized and bet- ter organized than the previous Printpack exhibitions. The fa- cilities and layout of this exhi- bition are very good, though in Hall 9, it was very crowded. I came from Patna in Bi- har and I am a commercial and book printer having in-house fa- cilities for sheetfed offset, web offset and digital presses. I want to upgrade some of my presses, so I am looking for latest tech- nology in this exhibition. We are planning for new sheetfed and web offset presses with full au- tomation. We are also planning for a UV coater machine and postpress equipment. Prashath, Hind Printers and Graphics, Udupi, Kerala shuttle services provided by IPAMA. We were confused by the names of Noida and Greater Noida. L to R: Rupesh Joshi from AVR Printtech and Rohit Joshi from The Offsetters (India) Pvt. Ltd., Patna, Bihar Jalaluddin Akand, executive director and Sarwar Amin, DGM -- Transcraft Limited, Dhaka, Bangladesh Pintpack is our mini-drupa. This is our second visit to Printpack. The exhibition is excellent – the arrangements like exhibition layout, trans- port facilities, availability of food and water, cleanliness are very good. I will say this is a mini-drupa; this is not as large as drupa but this is not small as well. The organizers did a good job. Those who are not able to visit drupa, they must visit Printpack. We are the largest newspa- per publisher in Bangladesh. We publish two newspapers, the English language news- paper The Daily Star and the Bengali language newspaper Prothom Alo. We are looking for latest technology innova- tion in web offset presses and postpress at this exhibition. We are also looking for other tech- nologies like flexography, post- press and binding equipment. L to R: Jalaluddin Akand, executive director and Sarwar Amin, DGM -- Transcraft Limited (The Daily Star and Prothom Alo), Dhaka, Bangladesh Sandeep Jasuja, Sandeep Offset Printer, Raipur, Chhattisgarh This is my 4th visit to Print- pack. The show is organized well but the timing of the show is not good; because of fog and winter, flights and trains got de- layed. Printpack is a good plat- form to meet hidden suppliers and their technologies. We can also explore our knowledge by seeing running processes and meeting with the right person. I am a commercial printer from Raipur. The printing mar- ket in Raipur is growing but upgraded technologies are not available. Only 25% of pack- aging job is done in Raipur; the remaining is done outside of Raipur.We are looking for new and upgraded technologies to provide better services to cus- tomers. There is no growth in the newspaper industry in Bangla- desh, and circulation has gone down by 10% in the last year because digital newspapers and online media are growing. In his final comment, Akand said the IPAMA team and IPP group also are doing well for the printing society and com- munity. Keep doing it. Sandeep Jasuja, Sandeep Offset Printer, Raipur, Chhattisgarh 6 | 5 FEBRUARY 2019 | Please visit our websites www.packagingsouthasia.com & www.indianprinterpublisher.com for Live updates during Printpack 2019