Letterpress in India

When, in India, I approached industry professionals to talk about letterpress technology, everyone asked one question. Why letterpress? It is a technology of the past. And yet most of them had something to share about the technology and quality it offers. Mostly being used for security printing and economical short run jobs, it is being used by both small and large printers.
Letterpress in India

As Manoj Patel, owner of R K Label Machinery, said, ‘A lot of printers start their business with a letterpress and later, as they grow, invest in a flexo press.’

Interlabels, now Skanem Interlabels, got its first Kopak letterpress in the 1980s and eventually bought a total of three letterpress machines. It still houses one of them at the factory in Vasai, Mumbai. Surinder Kapur of R K Papers in Mumbai installed a letterpress in its early days. Now, the young generation of Kapurs running J K Fine Prints has also installed an Orthotec CSL 3022 intermittent letterpress machine at their factory alongside other flexo presses.

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