Participate in FESPA 2013 Premier Awards Competition

FESPA 2013 Awards Competition

My Dear Grafica Customers & DMI Participants,

I am pleased inform you that FESPA has recently announced it’s most prestigious “FESPA 2013 Premier Awards Competition” which is now open for all Screen & Digital Printers across the globe.

In India this competition is supported by SPAI (Screen Printer’s Association of India) to support all screen & digital printers.

Winning this prestigious award will change the image of your organisation in the global market.

So rush your best screen printed entries to SPAI office in Mumbai and on your behalf SPAI will send your entries to FESPA LONDON for competition. You will have to pay very nominal fees to SPAI for sending your entries from Mumbai to London…

I have listed few products that are eligible for competition for your ready reference:

1. Advertising (POP’s POS, Graphic Posters)

2. Screen Printed T-shirts & Garments

3. Wedding Cards or any invitation/greeting cards

4. Commercial screen printed products

5. Screen printed Electronic & Industrial products

6. Glass & Ceramic Tiles and Transfers

7. Textile Heat Transfer Stickers

8. All types of screen printed stickers and labels

9. UV special effects

10. Automotive dials and decals

11. Screen printed Cd’s & plastics components

12. Screen printed Foot wear

And any other products that are either screen or digitally printed can be sent for competition.

Last date to receive the registrations: 25th March 2013

Last date to receive the entries: 25th April 2013

For more information about FESPA 2013, LONDON show, FESPA Premier Awards kindly visit www.fespa.com

Grab this opportunity and take active part in the FESPA 2013 Premier Awards Competition.

Hurry up and send your entries to SPAI office in Mumbai.

For any quick assistance please contact SPAI office (+91 22 66939747) or email your queries to info@spai.in

My best wishes are always with you…

Bhargav Mistry
www.bhargav.com

DOWNLOAD FESPA PREMIER AWARDS 2013 COMPETITION REGISTRATION FORM

Important Note: If you are a screen or a digital printer outside of India still you can participate in this competition but in that case you need to contact FESPA.com directly and I am sure they will guide you how to participate in this competition…

Few tips to bring change in the screen printing industry

Here are some ‘New Year Resolutions’. I am sure the industry will see “A BIG CHANGE” if these ‘Resolutions’ are followed.

Here we go…
1. Adopt automation to improve productivity.
2. Pay attention towards value addition whether its graphics or garments because that’s where the profit lies.
3. Screen is the heart of printing, so do not compromise on screen making equipment, emulsions, mesh & chemicals.
4. Use only polyurethane squeegee rubbers and sharpen the edge regularly to decrease ink consumption.
5. Maximise the use of UV Inks where ever possible (for graphics, industrial and commercial screen printers).
6. Maximise the use of Water Based Inks, PVC FREE – Phthalate Free Plastisol Inks (for garment screen printers)
7. Use only Yellow Polyester Mesh of high quality.
8. For halftone screen printing use dual-cure photopolymers emulsions and for better sharpness and quick exposure use SBQ photopolymer emulsions.
9. STOP wooden frames and use only aluminium frames
10. Work towards standardisation.
11. Pay attention to avoid. rejections and reduce wastage
12. Spend money for education and training.
13. Visit all printing related exhibitions to keep pace with the latest trends & technology.
14. Have concern for environment, safety, energy savings and other cost saving measures.

My message to screen printers who are into job work:
* Pay more attention towards quality and productivity and do not buy cheaper and substandard raw materials, because today labour, electricity and overheads are more expensive than those cheaper raw materials. Purchase raw materials and develop vendors/supplier who can provide better service and knowledge.

My message to all garment manufacturers who are having in-house printing unit:
* Use only high quality inks and forget ink cost, because the ratio of ink cost is very negligible considering the entire production cost of garment, even if you buy the most expensive ink. Because print sells…

Remember, to bring change in the industry, we need to change.

Bhargav

Do not make ‘mess’ by using nylon mesh, use only polyester mesh!

Because polyester mesh is best for high quality screen printing…

However screen printers need to do extensive R&D to unearth solution for their problems. However, to solve the registration miss–match problem, Polyester mesh is now being widely used. Polyester also has different grades. Polyester mesh is available in wide range from 6 mesh/cm to 180 Mesh/cm and various widths, in both white and yellow colours.

At excessive tension levels, the thread reaches to its plastic deformation point, and the screen will be stiff with no longer capacity to hold tension. However, it has been outshined by a new development in thread technology (High Module), which enables to bear the high tension with Low-Elongation for better and consistent print quality.

Polyester mesh is the preferred choice of the high end industries. i.e. electronics industry (PCB, membrane switches mfrs), CD printing, graphic printing, automotive decals, ceramic decals, tiles, glass, industrial labels, textile industry (garments and apparels, tag printing), Package Printing …even for halftone and fine printing like small micro letters, logos in a visiting card.

Features:
• High tensile and dyed fabric
• Low elongation
• No deformation of fabric
• Fast & good tensioning
• Quick lifting off fabric after squeegee lifts
• Fast ink release, Easy peel off
• Special fabric surface.
• Good Dimension stability
• Faster stabilisation
• Good durability
• Good resistance to acids & alkalis
• No water absorption

Benefits:
Ink savings: Low elongation means savings in ink, if it is used as per the specifications, instructions and right advice from suppliers.

Less consumption: It retains set tension level, print after print and job after job. This way, minimal distortion enables printers to obtain the most consistent results even after long printing runs. It not only improves productivity but also help reduce rejections.

High tension: Can be stretched to high tensions and maintain tension longer. Tension loss between stretching and printing is low and tension will remain stable over subsequent print runs. Higher tensions on press allow for lower off contact, which prolongs screen life and improves colour-to-colour registration accuracy. It also increases production speed.

Special Surface Treatment: Innovative mesh surface treatment provides improved wet ability and more uniform emulsion distribution. This treatment also ensure strong Adhesion: The mesh has an excellent screen making capabilities with outstanding resolution, resulting in a powerful adhesion to the photosensitive emulsion and tremendously increases the life of the mesh. The increased stencil adhesion properties firmly retain screen dots and fine lines, considerably lengthening stencil life.

Other benefits:
• Less choke up, less ghost image
• Easy to clean (after washing)
• Easy ink flow
• Consistent result
• Makes screen strong
• Preferred for good reproduction of minute details, sharp results
• Good for registration accuracy
• Good for high speed printing
• Increase in quality of job, improved registration due to stable tension
• Squeegee movement: silky and smooth
• High emulsion adhesion
• Stable printing dimensional accuracy
• Faster turnaround time from the screen room to the pressroom (Less tension change over time after tensioning)

Take care…

Bhargav Mistry

Nano-PrinTex is now being “marketed” by our competitors!!

Hi friends,

Being in the manufacturing of flat-bed screen printing machines, cylinder press, fully automatic flat-bed machines and allied products for more than two decades my company Grafica had never experienced success the way we are experiencing since the day we launched the world’s first all electrical mechanical automatic direct-to-garment screen printing machine “nano-prinTex”. And the credit goes to one of our close competitors who are a distributor of a foreign company selling similar kind of machines, inks and consumables to textile screen printers in India.

I must “sincerely” thank them for their continued negative promotion/marketing which is directly helping us to sell our nano-prinTex easily and effort less, although their motive was otherwise!!

Here a recent case study of our victory in a trade exhibition:
A reputed garment manufacturer who placed an immediate order of nano-PrinTex without much introduction from our sales person happen to mention that when he was at one of our competitors booth he simply requested the owner of the company to clarify the technical difference between their product with Grafica’s nano-prinTex.

“But instead of explaining me the technical differences he kept on speaking only bad about your company and your products. Surprisingly what I noticed that he forgot my question and during the discussion I could clearly sense the kind of fear they have from Grafica. Their fear revealed the strength of your product as a result of which I made my decision clearly to buy Grafica’s nano-prinTex.”

These kind of cases are rare but from the day we have started manufacturing carousel screen printing machines for t-shirts printing, this competitor of ours have gone absolutely mad and crazy. In fact what I can see in them is fear, fear of losing the monopoly in the textile industry. In fact it is merely because of their monopoly customer had to buy their machines as there was no qualitative alternative!

So I would like to thank my competitors and their team for talking negative about us, sabotaging our image and making false stories about our products. By their constant and rigorous efforts in spreading negative news about Grafica’s nano-PrinTex we are gaining huge success in the textile industry. Also due to their wrong publicity our customers are gaining more confidence in our product and our company.

In fact our competitors are forgetting that Grafica is a manufacturer having a strong engineering team and prompt service backup. Today we have more than 2500+ customers with a solid network of dealers and distributors all over the world. Apart from prompt after sales and service support we also run a highly professional in-house training institute “DMI”. So far this institute has offered FREE training in screen printing to more than 1200+ students and printing professionals.

I think our competitor has wrong belief that customers are fools. But I strongly believe customers are smart, intelligent and clever.

For the success of Grafica’s nano-PrinTex, I wish their childish approach, unethical behaviour and unprofessionalism should continue forever because we are gaining more popularity.

Bhargav

November 2013 – 1

Hello friends,

At the time of writing this blog, we were in the midst of a major international textile technology exhibition – India-ITME in Mumbai. We have introduced nano-prinTex plus – 20” x 30” (50 cm x 76 cm), direct-to- garment textile screen printing machine which is being showcased at India-ITME.

I am delighted to inform you that following appointment of Safa International as our Representative for Bangladesh, we are now gearing up to open a demo centre in Dhaka as a pre- cursor to our participation in Garment Tech Exhibition- Bangladesh to be held on 13-16 January 2013.

Meanwhile, there was few more development on ‘value addition’ front. First of all I congratulate and complement for the bold decision of Perfect Dot, sister concern of Ahmedabad based Gujarat Offset. They have invested in our Cylinder Press to aggressively seize the great opportunities in value addition. Moreover, recently around 200 members of Ahmemdabad Printing Press Association were attentively listening to my presentation on advanced screen printing with special focus on value addition. The event took place in Ahmedabad on 30th October 2012. I had conducted 2-day workshop at DMI on 2-3 November 2012. Around 30 participants took keen interest in my theory and practical sessions on value addition.

Finally, HAPPY NEW YEAR 2013 and enjoy the year-end celebrations!

Bhargav Mistry

 

Download Latest GRAFICA NEWS – November 2012 Edition for more information about new developments in screen printing technology…

 

Grafica’s nano-prinTex @ SGIA 2012 Las Vegas

After a successful launching of Grafica’s nano-prinTex, worlds first all electrical mechanical automatic direct-to-garment screen printing machine in India & UAE my team is now moving forward to launch nano-prinTex at SGIA 2012, Las Vegas, USA between 18 to 20 October.

SGIA is one of the renowned exhibition in USA which is organised every year and is mainly focused on screen and digital printing. In this exhibition we shall demonstrate for the first time Grafica’s nano-prinTex live all three days.

Today, I am very proud to say that Grafica will be the first Indian company to participate in SGIA consecutively for 2 years demonstrating high quality screen printing machines and allied products. Actually this will be our third exhibition in USA (twice in SGIA and once in FESPA AMERICA)

Our North American distributor RH Solutions, Ron Hayden and his team is very excited and enthusiastic to demonstrate Grafica’s state of the art direct-to-garment textile screen printing machine nano-prinTex in SGIA 2012.

I also look forward to see my friends and colleagues from this industry and many ASPT members (Academy of Screen Printing Technology)

One the way to Las Vegas…

Shall update you soon about the show with lots of interesting photos covering the whole event.

Have a great week…

Bhargav

Grafica’s nano-prinTex LIVE DEMO Centre now in Tirupur

Today I am proud to announce our new DEMO CENTRE in Tirupur.