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New office bearers for the Printing Technologists Forum, Chennai

At the 37th AGM of The Printing Technologists Forum held in Chennai recently, the Committee for 2018-20 was elected.  The members include Dr B Kumar, President (HOD-Printing, Anna University); M Venkatesan, Vice President (Scientific Publishing Services – SPS); KBS Sundaram, […]

Qurio Solutions launch India’s first printing B2B marketplace

Qurio Solutions has recently launched UrPrinters.com, India’s first B2B Printing marketplace. UrPrinters.com connects customers with printers across India to offer a wide range of printing services. Customers can get printing services based on printing material, printing quality, finishing and even

Second Leg of Print Yatra 2018 to cover 650 km

Print Yatra is a mission to educate the printers about the latest developments and unique techniques for the growth in printing and packaging industry. The second leg of Print Yatra 2018 was recently flagged off from Ludhiana to visit places

Cosmo Films wins SAP ACE Award 2018

Cosmo Films- a leading global brand, offering value added BOPP and CPP films for packaging, labelling, lamination and Industrial applications, has been awarded the prestigious SAP ACE Award 2018 in special recognition category. The honour bestowed by INDUS (SAP India

ABCs of PDF explained!

PDF (Portable Document Format) is used by all to present and exchange documents as a file format. P Chellappan, Managing Partner, PM Digital Products, uses it extensively for his digital jobs. Experiencing the usage of it at every stage, he

Robotic process automation and artificial intelligence

Sathish Kumar, Global Production Controller, Elsevier gave an interesting presentation on Robotic process automation and artificial intelligence at The Printing Technologists Forum recently. The speaker started with a small video interview of Sophia (Robot which has been awarded citizenship by

Punjab Kesari flags off trucks of relief material for the emigrants

Punjab Kesari recently flagged off 470th truck of relief material to the emigrants of border village Hira Nagar of Kathua district in Jammu & Kashmir. Earlier, the 466th truck of relief material was sent for distribution for the migrants of

Cloud computing discussed @ Anna University

Imprint, a national level technical symposium of Anna University, Chennai was recently held from March 1-3, 2018. It was attended by students from eight engineering and diploma colleges in printing. Anand Jeeth, Director, Cadgraf Digitals, Chennai gave a presentation on

Uday Patel honoured as outstanding entrepreneur

Uday C Patel, Founder, Line O Matic Graphic Industries has received “Outstanding Entrepreneur” award from Maneka Gandhi, Hon’ble Minister for Woman & Child Development, Government of India at an event by Federation of Gujarat Industries (FGI), Gujarat, India.

Asia-Pacific is fastest growing region in marketing & commercial printing markets

The Association for Print Technologies (APTech) and the Printing and Paper Technology Association within VDMA, the Mechanical Engineering Industry Association of Germany have released the joint comprehensive study “Worldwide Market for Print 2.0: Global Opportunities in Publishing Printing and Marketing

Celebrating Print – one day technical seminar at MIT, Manipal

Department of Printing and Media Engineering, MIT, Manipal organised “Celebrating print”- a one day technical seminar for Bengaluru printing fraternity at Manipal Academy of Banking campus, Bengaluru with the theme “New Horizons, New Hopes.” During the inaugural session, BE Satish,

Media Carnival 2018

Over 100 students from the Diploma and Engineering colleges all over India participated in Media Carnival 2018(6th National Level Intercollegiate Print and Electronic Media Technical Festival), organised by Department of Printing & Media Engineer-ing, Manipur Institute of Technology (MIT), Manipal,

New team at OPA

In accordance with the constitution of OPA, a new team has been nominated as the managing body of Offset Printers’ Association for the year 2018. These include: President: Parveen Aggarwal, BBF Industries Ltd; Sr. Vice President:Kushal Kumar Jain, Jain Packwell

NPES rebrands as Association for Print Technologies

Heralding its bold new mission to drive printing industry growth, NPES – The Association for Suppliers of Printing, Publishing and Converting Technologies announced a name change to the Association for Print Technologies (APT). The new identity is both a nod

A legendary figure passes away

V Subramanian, former President, MPLA & AIFMP, passed away on February 11, 2018 in Chennai. A go getter, he was in his times youngest to become the President of MPLA & AIFMP. Innovative and social minded by nature, in whatever

New EFI Market Direct Customer Engagement Platform

Printing companies, agencies, marketing service providers, educational institutions and small to medium corporations have a new tool to drive integrated customer engagement with EFI MarketDirect from Electronics For Imaging, Inc. MarketDirect’s robust Customer Engagement Platform gives users the ability to

Scodix to showcase digital enhancement in the Americas in Q1

Scodix will be promoting four different industry events in the first three months of 2018, geographically ranging from Minnesota and New York, down to Texas and Brazil. With commercial service providers eager to develop new revenue streams and enhance profit

Kodak releases 2016 Corporate Responsibility Report

Kodak has released its 2016 corporate responsibility report, which highlights the company’s commitment to achieving 10 new environmental and social sustainability goals by 2025. In addition to detailing Kodak’s goals, the report, titled, “See Us Now,” provides a view of

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