Chennai rules with 50 CTP units. Coimbatore has eight and Sivakasi has six thermal CTP platesetters which include installs at Srinivas Fine Arts, Lovely Offset and Orient Press.
The Tamil Nadu (TN) installations are: Madurai (Suprasetter 105 at Thee Classic and a refurbished 4300 Platerite Screen at Vinayaga Screens), Salem (FFEI 8-up at Srivari Graphic), Tirupur (Screen Platerite at Royal Process) and Kumbakonam (Dotline 8-up at Nadar Press).
A Dhanasekaran of Safire Industries, a major print company in TN said: "CTP fulfills the need of printers in TN who want to improve their market share."
Madurai, Salem and Tirupur consume 1,500 sq/mtrs of CTP plates. Coimbatore consumes 10,000 sq/mtrs. Surprisingly Karur consumes 800 sq/mtrs of CTP plates in spite of not having a CTP installation.
Have your say in the Printweek Poll
Related stories
Latest comments
"And here's me thinking they bought the Docklands Light Railway."
"15 x members? Why don't they throw their lot in with the Strategic Mailing Partnership (SMP) and get a louder voice?"
"Some forty plus years ago I was at a "sales" training seminar and got chatting to the trainer after the session had finished.
In that conversation he told me about another seminar he had..."
Up next...
Further breathing space
'Serious group' interested in Highcon, new deadline set
Automation welcomed
Colourbridge enhances efficiency with new Duplo multi-finisher
New business unit includes OpSec
