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Founded in 1979, the trade monthly Indian Printer and Publisher reaches publishing and print professionals in South Asia. It covers the commercial, publication, digital printing, and signage industries, while Packaging South Asia our new bimonthly, focuses on packaging and converting segments.

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Vol. 31 No. 02, 2010

Indian Printer and PublisherEditorial - Yen forecasting - Many Indian printers who bought offset presses with deferred credit and foreign currency loans, especially the Japanese Yen, may be in a spot of trouble as the first payments become due. For instance, if they bought a machine when one Yen was equal to 36 paise, by the time the machine actually came in and cleared customs, the Indian Rupee had already depreciated to 40 paise against one Yen.

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Digital Print

55 Commercial launch of Screen’s Truepress JetSX at Ipex 2010


56 Naresh Khanna and Parshav Jain give an interim update – Digital production press installs


71 Avantika first to install Canon’s imagePRESS1135


Editorial

06 Yen forecasting, Ali writes a comprehensive


Events

42 Pamex Review by IPP Editorial team


50 Optimistic KBA reports upturn, writes Ron Augustin


52 The IPEX Media Summit, More digital less everything else


Prepress

60 Spectral Readings, part 2 by Paul Lindstrom


Pressroom

13 Aadarsh publishers launch ‘Talking Pen’ at the World Book Fair


66 Gregory Alvares writes about a day in the life of a service engineer


71 manroland India to host Open House at HT Media


71 Komori Spica 429 at Swastik Printers, Lucknow Lithrone 429 at Print-o-Land, Jaipur


Publishing

08 Ron Augustin report on Kolkata and Delhi book fairs


14 Urvashi Butalia writes about the business of publishing translations


18 The Jaipur Literature Festival, coming of age through the fog, writes Ron Augustin


20 Abu Dhabi Book Fair, IPA Copyright Symposium to precede event


22 Zid karo, duniya badlo – Fayez Ali writes a comprehensive report on The DB Corp.


28 Ron Augustin reports on Bhutan’s media explosion, Government asks for ABC audit of new media


32 Best practices guide for web offset printers – Part I


36 Mitsubishi Diamondspirit presses for Asahi Shimbun


Indian Printer and Pubilsher Magazine

Indian Printer and Publisher

Vol. 31 No. 02, 2010

Founded in 1979, the trade monthly Indian Printer and Publisher reaches publishing and print professionals in South Asia.