Monsoon Summit gets third sponsor

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We are fortunate in the lean season both for rain and sponsors to get three sponsors. Although we expected some support from the heavy metal companies, they seem to be the hardest hit by the economic downturn and the global financial crisis. We are heartened by Canon’s support to the ISO event – this digital press manufacturer also supported the IPP XI Conference in Mumbai in December 2007. Maybe we shouldn’t be surprised that our second sponsor thus far is Reliance Consumer Finance. This is a company that seems keen to support small and medium industry printers in their business expansion plans. And the third sponsor signed up just yesterday, that is x-rite and their Indian distributor AGS based in Mumbai. Thus this event represents a confluence of three types of products and services that are much needed by the printing industry to grow and to change – software and instrumentation; technical consultancy services for ISO implementation and certification; and, business services in this case finance for business expansion.

In addition for the first time for an IppStar event we also have the support of the printer’s associations in the three cities where the summit is being held. The Dehli Printers’ Association, the Delhi Master Printers Welfare Association, the Bombay Master Printers’ Association, the Mumbai Mudrak Sangh, the Madras Printers & Lithographers Association and Indian Print Exporters Forum. It is important for the printers associations to recognise the IppStar events as those of substantial content and take home value – challenging to put together and organise and done with minimum stress on the resources of the industry.

There are so many exhibitions, events, and conferences nowadays that it is not easy to get sponsors especially in the short time that IppStar has had for organising the Monsoon summit. We are a relatively small organisation which simultaneously produces two magazines and is also organising a human resources event at the PackPlus 09 exhibition at Pragati Maidan from 8 to 11 July in addition to the Monsoon Summit. A standardisation event is not only challenging to organise but it is needed to get not just the wider industry going but also the leaders to act on this important task.

Although the time is short to register participants, we have got organised over the last week and contacted the leading sheetfed and heatset commercial and packaging printers. ISO 12647-2 is specific to the offset printing. The response is positive and we had already received about 75 commitments and about 100 that are interested but have not yet committed their participation. There are some larger multi-locational companies that are sending as many as ten participants to the three locations. We are hoping to surpass our target of 165 and are now aiming at 180 registrations altogether. This is an important opportunity to methodically address the quality and colour management issues and implement printing process standardisation.

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