Friday 30 March 2012

Printing and packaging companies in Gurgaon turning domain specialized


Printing and packaging companies in Gurgaon are constantly being challenged with shorter fluctuating demand cycles, increasing raw material cost and competition of low price. Today, working in this domain is not so easy any more. There are a lot many challenges that printing companies have to come across and combat with to exist in this field. Competition is unbelievably high and the solution to this is to prove yourself be the excellent. This is the reason that made printing and packaging companies in Gurgaon narrow down their job.

Narrowing down printing & packaging job entails choosing one specific domain and being expert in it. This separates one company from others in the type of services they provide. Printing and packaging job is extremely vast which incorporates myriads of processes and technical methods, which is chosen as per the type of product to be printed and packed. But, none of the companies provide all type of printing and packaging services. Reason for this is that it is very expensive to have all types of latest machines and expert professionals to work on all sorts of projects. Hence, companies prefer to be expert in one or limited number of services and outshine in that. 

This has a benefit, i.e. it provides them more space to perform the best. Another major benefit of specializing in specific domain is that the competition gets cut short. Means printing and packaging companies for food products will grab customers of the same domain and will not be interrupted by others. So every industry gets some potential customers. Customers can also easily select the company that can actually fulfill their needs.

Significance of information in pharmaceutical printing


Pharmaceutical printing is very crucial and requires service providers to stick to the strict rules. Since it involves public health, there is no room for mistake. Probably this is the reason why there are not many such companies to offer such services. Disinterest of printing companies in this domain is also because of the fact that it doesn’t only comply printing a design or brand logo on the package or label, but also printing all the information accurately on the package. The printer has to be very particular about printing the given details on the package.   
Printing pharma product information is the most vital part of the pharmaceutical printing. In fact, it is an essential part of pharmaceutical printing because it comes under “right to information act” and also under several pharma regulatory acts. The act tells that every consumer must know the details of the product he is consuming. According to this act, every pharmaceutical product must contain detailed information which incorporates brand name, logo, composition, warning (if needed), doses, manufacturing date, expiry date and other instructions. The purpose of providing these details, is to make user identify the product at a glance and allow them consume it accordingly. 

Above all, detailed information is necessary because it tells user how to use it. This becomes more crucial when it comes to life saving drugs, as they are extremely strong and wrong doses can lead to some serious consequences. This is the reason why rules for pharmaceutical printing have been tightened in these days.

Thursday 1 March 2012

How to resolve errors caught in prepress phase


Prepress is all about ensuring that the document is correct and is ready for final printing. This is the phase when you catch the errors that can delay the process of printing. Errors in prepress are just inevitable, but if can be resolved instantly before it is goes to next level. Here are the two most typical errors and their solutions: 

Error: Colors are undefined in linked graphics.

This can be fixed by defining colors using PMS numbers. If it is four-color process, define each color as CMYK percentages. 

Error: “Missing font” warning

First of all try to activate the “missing font” in the computer system. Else, you can make changes to the text that uses a “missing font” into another font manually by opening layout file. Often this warning appears due to spacebar space between the texts which is formatted with a missing font. If you want you can identify the location of missing font in Quark using the "Usage" menu item, InDesign or Illustrator in the "Find Font" menu item. You must get a clean layout file and for this deleting and editing all unused/invisible text along with the spaces is a must, as even this can be problematic in later stage.

For trouble-free printing it is important that proper prepress guidelines are followed. This involves creating layout, proof reading, and other technical and manual checking of the material to be printed. Prepress has a great significance as this is the fundamental pillar of printing which determines overall success or failure of the printing.