Pamex 2011 poised to gauge booming print market in India

-providing right platform at appropriate time for business in graphic arts industry

Showcasing generation next technologies from worldwide solution providers across pre-press, in-press, post-press, publishing, signage, machinery and equipments under one roof, the eighth Pamex 2011 – to be held during November 01-04, covering around 15,000 sq m exhibition area at Pragati Maidan, New Delhi – is all set to present realization of the very strengths of Indian graphic arts industry. Organised by All India Federation of Master Printers (AIFMP) in association with TAFCON, the show is expected to attract around 300 exhibitors and 30,000 visitors. PAMEX 2011 is not just a window to the expanding printing industry in India but also offers a passage to the Asian markets that hold tremendous potential. In a crowded marketplace, the event will provide organizations the opportunity to break through the clutter and grab the attention of its target segment. Due to well integrated marketing and public relation campaign launched targeting printers from India, SAARC and other regions of the world, the high worth buyers are expected to visit, generating a large volume of business, at the event where key decision makers will also be able to network in an ideal B2B platform that results in lucrative business opportunities.

The newly signed partnership between Heidelberg and Ricoh will be on display at its best at Pamex. The product range in digital production printing, will definitely, delight the industry, from graphic arts customers to print for pay professionals and corporate institutes, because of quality, efficiency, short turnaround time and after sales services. The partnership enables Heidelberg to sell Richo’s latest colour digital press. They will also sell the Ricoh production printing product portfolio. The combination of offset and digital printing enables printshops to respond flexibly to customer requirements by offering well known advantages of variable data printing, instant delivery of urgent print jobs and cost effective production of shorter run lengths. Technova Imaging will come out with full range of CtP technologies (thermal, violet, UV and inkjet) and a range of green solutions, portfolios of software & workflow solutions, printing consumables (analog and digital offset plates, graphic art films) entry level, mid range and high end solutions for commercial, packaging and newspaper printers. Having joined forces with Oce, Canon will distribute Oce products in the areas of production printing wide format signage and business service.

Players in photo printing industry are expanding their business into digital printing or wide format printing. Product range of Mehta Cad Cam, laser engraving, cutting plotters and small sized flatbed printers are popular with photo album producers. In the wide format space, the company deals in GH laser marking, cutting and Aoke flatbed cutting machines, vinyl cutting plotters, sky colour wide format inkjet printers, etc.

With Kodak, visitors will witness integrated workflow solutions for packaging, commercial printing, publishing data driven communications or document imaging. Bobst India will provide the Swiss technology solutions for printing and converting industries in the packaging sectors. How one can print at high speed POP/POS and other advertising material on semi rigid and rigid substrates, sun back/ sun board / acrylic, on fully automatic flat bed, will be showcased with screen printing machines of Grafica Flextronica. Reprographic Systems and Supplies, providing a varied product line of prepress and press supplies to the printing industry, has now emerged as digital/offset print finishing equipments supplier for paper and glue coating machine, table top binding equipments and spare parts suppliers for Heidelberg, Manroland, Komori and Mitsubishi machinery.

Pamex 2011 will also have on display, state-of-the-art printing technologies, machinery and equipments and innovative solutions from industry leaders including, Sandvik, UV Graphic Technologies, Esko Graphics, Heiber+Schroder; digital and offset solutions from KBA, Fortec, Indo European Machinery, Autoprint and many more .

Besides, adjunct programmes like Print Congress, Buyer & Seller Meets are being planned to be held alongside the expo. “By the time, Pamex 2011 is ready for the visitors in November, the content of the show is expected to be an all time great with lots of B2B character in built. The convergence of global printing industry players will be ideal for the industry in India, and the professionals, policy makers, equipment manufacturers, entrepreneurs, enabling a stock taking of the developments in the printing industry,” conveyed Veerendra Malik, chairman Pamex 2011.