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Naph Graphics

September 24, 2009

The Delhi NCR contains an engineering cluster for the manufacture of web offset presses. Among these companies is Naph Graphics, owned by four engineers who began manufacturing web presses themselves in 1996 after several years of experience in the industry. Based in Noida, Naph showed their new web offset meant for the newspaper and book industry at the Print Pack 09 exhibition in Delhi in January 2009.

Koncept by Naph Graphics

The new 35,000 copies an hour web offset press called the Koncept is a self-contained 4+4 tower including an in-built reel stand. It was shown running at the Print Pack 09 exhibition. After the show we visited the Naph plant in Noida and met two of the four partners Ashu Bharaj and Neeraj Rastogi. The other two partners are Harish Bansal and Ashok Goyal.

Ashu Bharaj told us, “With an employee strength of 45, we manufacture 15 machines a year. We are the first in India, who can make and provide web offset presses with so many cut off sizes right from 430 mm to 762 mm. We can also cross these limits if any costumer demands.”

When we asked Bharaj about the Print Pack show, he gave us a positive response and said, “We were very hopeful from Print Pack and we had got some queries from this event. Hopefully some of them will be converted to big deals and some deals are going in pipeline.” The new Koncept press is able to print 4-colours on both sides with an in-built reel stand in the same tower. Naph can make any configuration from 4-colour to 2-colour and single colour web offset printing machines, and even 5-colour web presses.

In fact one Koncept press line including QuadTech (QTI) auto-register controls has been sold and installed. Naph appreciates the importance of both auto-registration and auto-splicing for full colour web offset presses and is keenly engaged in bringing these technologies into their design and manufacturing program. The Koncept uses pneumatic controls and has brush mist dampening.

Naph’s Penta 30,000 copies an hour tower is a configuration that can be roughly described as a compact stack containing two Y units with a reel stand built within the bottom unit. The lower unit can print 2 + 0 and the top unit can print 2 + 1 for achieving 4 + 1 on a single web. The Penta tower also uses pneumatic controls and has brush mist dampening.

Naph’s customers include Sanmarg the broadsheet Hindi daily from Kolkata, Bhubaneshwar and Patna, which has a 12 broadsheet page web press which can print 6 pages in full colour. The Oriya daily Dharitri has a 20 broadsheet page press from Naph Graphics which can print 10 pages in full colour. Other customers include Nai Dunia in Indore and ST Reddiar and Sons one of the oldest commercial printing firms in the country based in Cochin, which has a 16-page press.