Prakash Webtech: offering high
quality and affordable web offset presses
With presence of various industry majors in the web offset press manufacturing segment of the industry, several brands are available in the market from India and overseas. But providing affordable presses always makes winner. So is being followed by Prakash Webtech Pvt Ltd. “With our relentless efforts to offer affordable web offset presses, we are constantly expanding our installation base in India, adding several leading newspapers to our clientele such as Dainik Jagran, Dainik Bhaskar, Rajasthan Patrika, Patrika, etc, alongwith exporting to the overseas market, and so far have accumulated a diverse base of over 500 installations worldwide,” conveyed Saurabh Gupta, director, of the company, in conversation with All About Newspapers.
Being well capable to meet the growing demand of printing and publishing industry, Faridabad-based Prakash Webtech Pvt Ltd not only provides a range of products but also numerous technical highlights which open up new dimensions in business.
Built entirely in their in-house state-of-the-art production facilities, Prakash web offset presses are suitable for newspapers, books, and semi-commercial printers.
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In their portfolio, Prakash has different solutions to suit different pagination and colour requirements. Their four high tower (to print 4+4) comprises four Nos. blanket-to-blanket printing stack mounted one upon another, for four-colour printing on both side of a single web or two-colour printing on double web. It ensures perfect registration because of vertical web lead, RCR’s and side registers provided in each printing stack. The company’s three-colour satellite (to print 3+0, 2+1) press comprises of three printing couples surrounding a common impression cylinder which facilitates three colour printing. The three-colour unit provides extra multi colour facility with no loss of page capacity. Prakash Mono Unit (to print 1+1) is available with inbuilt reel stand for minimum web travel and gives excellent print quality. It is also available in separate stacked unit, which can be mounted on reel stand. The company is also offering folders (to cut and fold) which can produce broad sheet and tabloid newspapers with optional attachments for magazines/quarter fold and double parallel/direct fold (with cross slitting/perforation) for book production. They can perform with speed from 16,000 cph to 36,000 cph.
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“With top production speed of 36,000 impressions per hour and a multitude state-of-the-art features aimed at reducing waste and make-ready, our presses have proven ideal for many applications like daily newspapers, financial printing, textbook printing, circular printing and four-colour semi-commercial printing,” said Saurabh, adding, “To enable our customers to enhance their efficiency with retrofitting and upgrading to the existing presses for future expansion plan, we give special emphasis on components metallurgy. It makes investment in our products beneficial in long term perspective. From boring to cylinder grinding, our large investment technology allows us to produce parts that meet the exacting standard required to build a precision printing press.”
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“To boost productivity, efficiency, and reliability of the presses, our experienced engineering team remains involved in research and development for creating new designs. The facility has been equipped with top of the line CAD/CAM software to streamline product development and relentless value addition to the design. As accurate machining is heart of any engineered machine, we manufacture products on new-generation CNC machines, allowing to specialise in producing cylindrical, cubical, and specialty components to precise tolerances. Our vast experience with high-precision manufacturing technologies and complex workpieces enables us to ensure one-stop, quality manufacturing of a diverse range of parts. From frames to cylinders to sleeves, tolerances within microns are maintained strictly to give our presses unmatched reliability and quality. For better performance, we use special bearings rated at 45,000 speed for all the cylinders. These all features make us an ISO 9001: 2008 certified company and one of the leading manufacturers of web offset presses for newspaper, book and semi commercial printers in India,” he stated, highlighting their expertise in producing affordable products without compromising with quality.
“We always support our customers by word and deed, providing the same great importance to competent advise, service, care and proximity to the customers as we do in ensuring the high quality of our machines. Shorter delivery times also make us different from other press suppliers. We firmly believe that satisfied customers are our best marketing strategy and our promise to them is simple: Nothing runs like our web presses,” concluded Saurabh.
