PRESSLINE PRIMA 36 enhances overall
quality in outputs at Viani Printings
Viani Printings, a Kochi-based printing house known for churning books, newspapers,
inserts, supplements and magazines in the utmost quality, boasts its upgraded production
facility enhanced by a PRIMA 36 from PRESSLINE India. ALL ABOUT NEWSPAPERS looks into
the progression the company has garnered following the adoption of the new PRESSLINE web press.
Apart from being a full-fledged
printing house, Viani Printings has
a printing technology college and
a division dedicated to notebook making
and packaging in Choondy, near Aluva, in
Kerala. Named after the 17th century French
saint, this printing firm is also known for
its dedication to community upliftment by
creating employment for common people
in the region. The latest thrust to ‘quality’
at Viani Printings has achieved through the
PRESSLINE PRIMA 36 equipped in its
production facility.
Production capacity
PRESSLINE PRIMA 36 is featured with
546 mm cut-off size with three back-toback
4Hi towers and a quarter folder—such
configurations of the press now help Viani
Printings churn either a total of 16 pages in
which 8 in colour and 8 in black & white
or a total of 12 colour pages. After all this
absolute enhancement in the infrastructure,
the company is now gearing up to boost
both quality and volume using Combi rollers
and blankets that can be retrofitted with
UV curing to achieve excellent outputs on
calendared substrates in form of paper.
Rev Fr Francis Arickal, who is heading
the company since last two years, has the
background of working at various church
institutions, which include some printing
establishments. “Our facility in Kochi is
now congested; it has no scope for further
expansion. So we are looking at expanding
our Choondy facility where a division will
be dedicated to bulk textbook and notebook
printing,” he said. The expansion will take
place on a five-acre plot of land and planning
to complete it in the next few years as work
is now in full progress and new machines
have arrived.
Machine portfolio
In the management team of Viani Printings,
Fr Bijoy Palatty is in the capacity of assistant
director and Kurian N Chacko holds
the post of production head. “We
have two web offset machines—
Manugraph Cityline Express 35 and
PRESSLINE PRIMA 36 in one section
of the facility,” explained Kurian,
adding that such arrangement helps
machine operators to have better coordination
while handling the presses
simultaneously. Installed next to
these web offset presses are Komori
LITHRON S-26 and MITSUBISHI
4-Colour sheet-fed offset presses. The smaller
lot in the portfolio comprises Manugraph Print
Magic 274 HF, HTM SOM 136 sheet-fed
web offset press, single-colour DOMINANT
715 and Abdick mini offset machine.
The pre-press and design section of the
company is located on the first floor where
installed CtP units from Kodak and others.
Additionally, in the section are plate-making
machines, such as Protek Qax90 plate
exposing system (90x110cm) and a monotype
machine. Likewise, the port-press division,
located on the second floor, is equipped
with a array of high-end equipments, such
as Welbound 12-station gathering and side
printing machine; sheet folding machines;
Welbound 6-staion saddle stitcher with three
knives line cutting; 6-clamp perfect binding
unit; wire stitching machines; wet and thermal
laminators; packing and bundling machines,
among others.
Eventually, the adoption of PRESSLINE
PRIMA 36, which runs at the maximum speed
of 36,000 cph, has driven Viani Printings
to a new momentum in both quality and
volume of production.
