DIGITAL PRINTING
New roll-fed digital press heralds entry to pharma labels
New Delhi ’ s MD Graphics installs Konica Minolta AccurioLabel 230
SHARDUL SHARMA
New Delhi-based label printing and converting specialist MD Graphics recently installed a brand-new Konica Minolta AccurioLabel 230 digital press to run along with a battery of sheetfed presses it already had . The company , which was established almost a decade ago , operates from the three locations – New Delhi , Dehradun , and Ahmedabad . The AccurioLabel 230 has been placed at the New Delhi plant and has been operational for the last one and a half months .
“ We operate a number of sheetfed presses for our label printing business . To cater to the demand for labels in roll form , we opted for the Konica Minolta AccurioLabel 230 . The press will also help us in catering to short-run jobs and variable data printing work ,” says Dheeraj Sharma , managing director of MD Graphics .
The AccurioLabel 230 is the third re-design of Konica Minolta ’ s popular label series of toner-based printers . The design offers speed improvement on tack papers and tack films with a maximum print speed of 76 feet / min , shorter warmup times , and an optional over-print kit enabling additional capabilities of running pre-printed media .
The AccurioLabel 230 incorporates improvements to its Brotech winder and unwinder , including air chuck control for trouble-free handling of roll material , pre and post area access lights for improved viewing of the web path , and an updated tension control for automatic tension settings during label runs .
In addition to the AccurioLabel 230 , MD Graphics has offset , flexo , and digital sheetfed presses . With its robust finishing department , the company prints and converts decals ,
Dheeraj Sharma , managing director of MD Graphics ( on the left ) with the AccurioLabel 230
gumming stickers , dome labels , anodized labels , powder-coated printed labels , and heat sinks . Its customers are mainly in the electrical , electronics , and automobiles industries .
“ We are extremely satisfied with the working of the press . The assistance extended by the Konica Minolta India team has also been excellent . With the help of the new press , we hope to expand our footprint in the pharmaceutical industry now ,” Sharma says .
MD Graphics business inching towards normalcy
After bearing the brunt of the Covid-19 pandemic during the most of 2020-2021 financial year , MD Graphics has seen a strong bounce back in business in the 2021-2022 financial year . This is mainly because of a more relaxed lockdown implemented during the second wave by various state governments .
“ In the last financial year , the impact on business was severe because of the blanket national lockdown . However , due to a much milder form of lockdown this year , the business disruption has not been very severe . In fact , our business is much , much better in 2021-2022 compared with 2020-2021 . If things continue this way , we even hope to match the levels of 2019-2020 ,” Sharma concludes . n
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Indian Printer & Publisher | 1 November 2021