IPP-XI Conference

The IPP-XI Conference, concentrating on business and technology insights of relevance to small and medium print business, generated a lot of interest amongst the delegates. This was held in the afternoon between 3 pm & 6.30 pm on 17th & 18th December 2007 and was spread over 4 sessions of 90 minutes each. It was presented by Mr. Naresh Khanna – Editor, IPP and the Key-note speaker was Mr. B.S. Kampani, President & MD, Toyo Inks India Pvt. Ltd.

The topics included : (1) The Print Market in Mumbai and Western India (2) Relocation and expansion option, Blue Ocean strategies - exports?  (3) The Packaging and Label Options (4) Prepress houses move forward -Colour Management, CTP, Wide format, and Digital Printing, Web to print and (5) Modernizing and growing with the offset option - high value assets in small spaces including automation in prepress and post-press.

Some of the panelists were, Anil Joshi of K Joshi & Co.-Pune, Pradeep Shinde of Printwell -  Aurangabad, Ramesh Kejriwal of Parksons Pvt. Ltd., Feroz Reshamwala of Lucid Prints - Navi Mumbai, Prabuddha Dasgupta of Hindustan Unilever – Bangalore, Amar Chajjed of Web Tech - Navi Mumbai, Nagesh Karuturi of HP India Pvt. Ltd., Khagesh Patel of Patel Digital – Ahemdabad, Anir Dutta of Kodak Graphic Communications – USA, Milind Deshpande of Malhar Digitech – Mumbai, Siddarth Gupta of KK Printing, Tushar Dhote of Dhote Offset  Technokrafts - Mumbai, Arun Rawat of Print Services – Mumbai, Asim Kulkarni of Kodak Graphic Communications Group and Sanjib Baruah of Presstek India.