Markets we supply · Kolkata
Offset Printing in Kolkata
Offset Printing are among the lines we supply most into Kolkata, where food processing and garments make up much of the industrial base.
Offset Printing for Kolkata
Demand in Kolkata is built on tea packing and export, jute and leather goods, engineering and food processing. Food processing and garments 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. Humidity is the constraint in Kolkata. Board takes up moisture and loses stiffness, so cartons going to Kolkata are run on a heavier caliper than the same job for a dry market.
Cartons and inserts are where offset still wins outright, because the text is small, the register has to be exact, and the run lengths are long enough to pay for plates.
A Kolkata 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 Kolkata is tea carton and pouch labels and export shipper labels, so a offset printing enquiry from Kolkata is normally priced and consolidated alongside those. It goes out by road — 1,500 km — and a humid destination is what the board and the ink film have to be specified against for Kolkata.
In this range
Posters, catalogues, brochures and printed folding cartons — 4 product lines in all.
Also supplied to Kolkata
Offset Printing elsewhere
All Kolkata ranges
Questions
Offset Printing in Kolkata — questions we are asked
Do you supply offset printing in Kolkata?
Yes. Everything is manufactured at our own works in Rajouri Garden, New Delhi and despatched from there. Road, 1,500 km — 3 to 4 working days.
What do Kolkata customers use offset printing for?
Food processing and garments mainly. Tea carton and pouch labels, export shipper labels, leather goods branding, barcode media — this range covers the part of that list it applies to.
What is the lead time for offset printing to Kolkata?
Road, 1,500 km — 3 to 4 working days. On top of that allow for proofing: offset printing artwork for Kolkata is approved digitally before any plate or die is cut, and on a repeat Kolkata order that step drops away because the die is already on file.
How do Kolkata 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 Kolkata 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 Kolkata 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.