Export market · New Zealand
Offset Printing for export to New Zealand
Offset Printing are among the lines we supply most into New Zealand, where food processing and retail make up much of the industrial base.
Offset Printing for New Zealand
Demand in New Zealand is built on food processing, beverage bottling, agri-inputs and retail. Food processing and retail 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. New Zealand conditions are manageable, so the job turns on registration and colour consistency across the run rather than on the substrate surviving the climate there.
Offset earns its place on long runs, fine text and exact colour. Below the crossover quantity digital is honestly the better answer and we will say so.
A New Zealand 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 New Zealand is food and beverage labels and supplement labels, so a offset printing enquiry from New Zealand is normally priced and consolidated alongside those. Nhava Sheva to Auckland or Tauranga is the leg it travels, and a temperate destination is what the board and the ink film have to be specified against for New Zealand.
Where this sits against New Zealand rules
Which rules apply depends on what the label goes onto. The regime your importer works to in New Zealand is FSANZ Food Standards Code shared with Australia, Fair Trading Act origin claims, allergen declarations, metric units — and the pack language is English, with Māori usage on some brands. None of that is what you are specifying when you buy offset printing, but it is what the rest of your New Zealand consignment travels under, so it is worth knowing which of your items it catches and which it does not.
Getting it to New Zealand
Nhava Sheva to Auckland or Tauranga — 22 to 30 days. 30 days in a container is long enough for the hold to swing between damp nights and hot afternoons many times over. Landing into New Zealand, the usual complaint is not failure but curl at the liner edge, which becomes a storage question once the offset printing are off the ship.
In this range
Posters, catalogues, brochures and printed folding cartons — 4 product lines in all.
Also supplied to New Zealand
Offset Printing elsewhere
All New Zealand ranges
Questions
Offset Printing in New Zealand — questions we are asked
Do you supply offset printing in New Zealand?
Yes. Everything is manufactured at our own works in Rajouri Garden, New Delhi and despatched from there. Nhava Sheva to Auckland or Tauranga — 22 to 30 days.
What do New Zealand customers use offset printing for?
Food processing and retail mainly. Food and beverage labels, supplement labels, primary produce labels, carton labels — this range covers the part of that list it applies to.
Is there a minimum order for offset printing to New Zealand?
No fixed minimum for offset printing. New Zealand consignments are quoted per job and usually consolidated with the other lines going the same way, which is what makes a smaller New Zealand run workable. Nhava Sheva to Auckland or Tauranga — 22 to 30 days.
How do New Zealand 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 New Zealand 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 New Zealand 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.