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Used offset presses – the dealers and printers speak
October 11, 2010 | By Rahul
The Indian printing market is getting reasonably large and is possibly one of the fastest growing in the world, according to the original primary research done by IppStar (www.ippstar.org) over the past dozen years. The estimates vary but many industry professionals believe that of the total footprint of sheetfed offset presses, as many as 85 per cent were purchased as used machines. In our market, prepress generally tends to have more equipment purchased brand new in comparison to printing and finishing and postpress. The reasons for this may be that prepress tends to contain a lot of electronics and software which depreciate faster and also because that part of the industry tends to change faster than heavy metal machines. ...cont´d
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