Export market · Mexico
Offset Printing for export to Mexico
Offset Printing are among the lines we supply most into Mexico, where food processing and FMCG make up much of the industrial base.
Offset Printing for Mexico
Demand in Mexico is built on food processing, beverage bottling, FMCG and chemicals. Food processing and FMCG in particular buy this range steadily, and the work is repeat work — the die, the material code and the colour target stay on file so a reorder is a phone call rather than a fresh setup.
What decides the specification
With offset printing the question is always registration held across a long run, and colour read against an approved target. Heat is the constraint in Mexico. UV exposure fades process inks faster there than the same job would fade in a temperate market, so anything displayed outdoors in Mexico needs a UV-stable build.
On consumer cartons the colour has to match across every SKU in the family and across reprints months apart, which is a proofing and ink-management discipline rather than a press one.
A Mexico order for offset printing arrives against a seasonal pack calendar, so the reorder is usually the same die with a new flavour panel. What already moves from our floor to Mexico is food and beverage labels and personal care labels, so a offset printing enquiry from Mexico is normally priced and consolidated alongside those. Nhava Sheva to Manzanillo or Veracruz is the leg it travels, and a hot and dry destination is what the board and the ink film have to be specified against for Mexico.
Where this sits against Mexico rules
Which rules apply depends on what the label goes onto. The regime your importer works to in Mexico is NOM-051 food labelling with front-of-pack warning octagons, COFEPRIS registration, Spanish declarations, metric units — and the pack language is Spanish mandatory. None of that is what you are specifying when you buy offset printing, but it is what the rest of your Mexico consignment travels under, so it is worth knowing which of your items it catches and which it does not.
Getting it to Mexico
Nhava Sheva to Manzanillo or Veracruz — 28 to 38 days. 38 days in a container is long enough for the hold to swing between damp nights and hot afternoons many times over. Landing into Mexico’s heat, an adhesive specified at Indian room temperature is close to its working limit on the day the offset printing arrive.
In this range
Posters, catalogues, brochures and printed folding cartons — 4 product lines in all.
Also supplied to Mexico
Offset Printing elsewhere
All Mexico ranges
Questions
Offset Printing in Mexico — questions we are asked
Do you supply offset printing in Mexico?
Yes. Everything is manufactured at our own works in Rajouri Garden, New Delhi and despatched from there. Nhava Sheva to Manzanillo or Veracruz — 28 to 38 days.
What do Mexico customers use offset printing for?
Food processing and FMCG mainly. Food and beverage labels, personal care labels, industrial labels, carton labels — this range covers the part of that list it applies to.
Is there a minimum order for offset printing to Mexico?
No fixed minimum for offset printing. Mexico consignments are quoted per job and usually consolidated with the other lines going the same way, which is what makes a smaller Mexico run workable. Nhava Sheva to Manzanillo or Veracruz — 28 to 38 days.
How do Mexico buyers usually order offset printing?
Against a seasonal pack calendar, so the reorder is usually the same die with a new flavour panel — that is the pattern across most of our Mexico work in this range. Tell us the quantity and the reorder interval and we will quote the die and the material once, then hold both on file for Mexico repeats.
Tell us what it has to stick to
Send the pack, the quantity and the market it ships to. We come back with a specification, a price and a lead time.