Indian subcontinent on GXpress

Growth stories for Hindi publishers
Indian publishers in the Hindi market, Dainik Bhaskar Group and Kasturi & Sons are going for growth with a raft of new colour production capacity across the country.

Japanese 4x1 press starts up at ‘The Hindu’ in Coimbatore
More information is emerging about the latest Kasturi & Sons printing plant for ‘The Hindu’ in Coimbatore, India, where a fifth Mitsubishi DiamondSpirit 4x1 press was commissioned in January.

Multichannel upgrade gives ‘The Hindu’ a boost online
After 15 years online, ‘The Hindu’ – owned by Chennai-baased Kasturi & Sons – has moved further ahead, almost tripling its page-views with the installation of CCI Europe’s NewsGate multimedia platform.

Ifra India picks Pink City in September
WAN-Ifra’s 2010 India conference will be held in the Pink City of Jaipur from September 15-16.

Ferag sees growth as labour patterns change
Swiss mailroom specialist Ferag says it is increasing its commitment to India, which it recognises as one of the newspaper industry’s growth markets.

Magnum press suits Sri Lanka publisher to a T
Sri Lankan printer and publisher Associated Newspaper Ceylon has commissioned a new Goss Magnum 4 press, increasing page and colour capacity at the Lake House facility in Colombo.

Free mags promote online reading
Indian online publishing, distribution and retail services company Ezinemart has made more than 75 magazines titles available free online in an effort to drive interest in digital reading.

Repro India expansion calls for four new Goss presses
Repro India has signed orders for four new Goss presses as part of an expansion project to its printing facility in Sachin, Gujarat. Two M500 and two Community SSC presses will boost magazine printing capacity for the commercial print markets and book sales in the educational and children’s book markets.

Orient stars in Mumbai success
Growing Hindi newspaper ‘Hamara Mahanagar’ is reorganising production following installation of a single-width Orient press from The Printers House … and talking about the possibility of another.

ferag 'flags' India's first MemoFlag user
Ferag has sold its first MemoFlag installation into India as part of a mailroom system for Ananda Bazar Publishers new printing centre outside Calcutta.

Bhaskar installs Krause in CTP replacement
After a substantial investment in KBA presses, India’s Bhaskar Group has upgraded its prepress with 13 Krause LS Jet CTP lines, replacing Agfa and Dotline with LS Jet and BlueFin.

Times of India busy with CCI's NewsGate
Bennett, Coleman & Co., publisher of ‘The Times of India’ is to install a CCI NewsGate cross-media publishing system involving more than 1000 seats at five newspapers.

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