Export market · South Africa
Offset Printing for export to South Africa
Offset Printing are among the lines we supply most into South Africa, where food processing and retail make up much of the industrial base.
Offset Printing for South Africa
Demand in South Africa is built on food processing, beverage bottling, retail, chemicals and engineering. 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. South Africa 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 South Africa 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 South Africa is food and beverage labels and retail product labels, so a offset printing enquiry from South Africa is normally priced and consolidated alongside those. Nhava Sheva to Durban is the leg it travels, and a temperate destination is what the board and the ink film have to be specified against for South Africa.
Where this sits against South Africa rules
Which rules apply depends on what the label goes onto. The regime your importer works to in South Africa is NRCS compulsory specifications, R146 food labelling regulations, SANS standards, country of origin declaration — and the pack language is English, often with Afrikaans. None of that is what you are specifying when you buy offset printing, but it is what the rest of your South Africa consignment travels under, so it is worth knowing which of your items it catches and which it does not.
Getting it to South Africa
Nhava Sheva to Durban — 14 to 18 days. 18 days in a container is long enough for the hold to swing between damp nights and hot afternoons many times over. Landing into South Africa, 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 South Africa
Offset Printing elsewhere
All South Africa ranges
Questions
Offset Printing in South Africa — questions we are asked
Do you supply offset printing in South Africa?
Yes. Everything is manufactured at our own works in Rajouri Garden, New Delhi and despatched from there. Nhava Sheva to Durban — 14 to 18 days.
What do South Africa customers use offset printing for?
Food processing and retail mainly. Food and beverage labels, retail product labels, industrial and chemical labels, barcode media — this range covers the part of that list it applies to.
Is there a minimum order for offset printing to South Africa?
No fixed minimum for offset printing. South Africa consignments are quoted per job and usually consolidated with the other lines going the same way, which is what makes a smaller South Africa run workable. Nhava Sheva to Durban — 14 to 18 days.
How do South Africa 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 South Africa 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 South Africa 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.