Samrat is an innovative print media house based in New Delhi, India providing state-of-the-art print and packaging services. With an extensive experience of production in all scales, Samrat deals with a huge spectrum of projects for corporate as well as independent clients.
Established in 1985 as a sister concern of S. Narayan & Sons, Samrat is renowned for its creative approach and ability. Specializing in book printing and binding, the organization ventures into diverse lines of printing: spanning from outright commercial to packaging of many kinds.
A continuous investment in technology and latest printing techniques makes it a leading print company in the industry. Acknowldeged for its quality, Samrat serves regional, national and international clients, with an aptitude for custom, luxury and extraordinary products.
ONE-STOP SOLUTION
Samrat is a one-stop solution for all the print needs of our clients. All printing jobs from concepts to finalisation are achieved under one roof to reduce the transportation costs and time. Maintaining the entire operation within the facility assure the firm control over quality and faster turnarounds.
HOW WE DO IT
As all jobs are distinct in their requirements, each one calls for an appropriate handling and attention. With our vast experience of 30 years, we accurately develop a solution strategy for your needs alongside our inhouse systems to eliminate errors ensuring a product of high quality.
THE PRE-PRESS
The Pre-Press is the first step of the printing process and it is where the foundations for the print quality are laid upon. Pre-Press allows comprehensive inspection of typesetting work, image retouching, color correction and page layout. Once the revisions are complete, the proofs are generated on screen as digital proofs, offset proofs or soft proofs in line with acknowledged standards for clients approval before the final print.
For each artwork, depending on its desired resolution and medium we conscientously select a dot shape and size for the finest results.
For more information on High Resolution Prints (250 DPI or more), please write to us at [email protected].
Color Management
At Samrat, we ensure the printed colors appear as they originally looked on screen. All colors are checked, matched and harmonized from input to output. As part of our color management system, we use color profiles and comply with acknowledged standards to achieve a color fidelity of superior level. Our advance color management system guarantees consistent quality from artwork to final print product ensuring a premium product.
Retouching
Retouching requires specific precision and an extensive experience which we at Samrat take pride upon. In the color retouching process our specialists precisely touch up and optimize images in line with the clients’s requirements and adopted scheme of design. This ensures a consistent imagery with a color structure in unison. Retouching administer an ultimate finishing touch to your graphics and images.
Colour Measure
As color is subjective and changes with factors like light, we at Samrat do not rely on our sight to assess a job. All the sample sheets are meticulously measured using a Densitometer and i1. This provides the element of control, equipping us with all the information that will guide the decisions we make while printing a job.
With state-of-the-art technology, the Pre-Press department of Samrat adds an immense value to client’s needs. At Samrat, you have a single-source service where a designated contact person, who supervise your project from the delivery of files to final printed product and manages entire workflow. For follow-up prints and reissues, your designated contact is your go-to person.
Our employees receive continuos training to be at par with all latest developments in the print industry. It enables us to maintain our high quality standards and provide the client with products featuring a substantial degree of added value.
THE PRESS
The Press is where all your ideas come to life. The offset printing has been the core of our business and we have developed a progressive system around it to the benefit of our clients. Along with our established lean system in CMYK, we offer specialized printing techniques with Metallic Inks, Pantones and our inhouse Tritone-Quadtone separations. The Tritone-Quadtone separations allow us to produce distinct Black and White Art Prints of high quality.
CIP3 Ink Presetting
We at Samrat for the past decade have been using CIP3 Ink Presetting Technology which is widely used method to reduce the time and cost for make ready, and consequently improving production efficiency. It is also a key technology that promotes the integration of pre-press, press and post-press. An efficient use of this technology enables us to print small runs from 150 sheets onwards in a more cost effective way in comparison to digitel printing yet offering the supreme quality of offset printing.
UV Printing
One of our latest extensions to our system is the induction of UV Printing. The special UV Inks used in this process have a very high gloss value which furnish the prints with a vibrant effect unmatched by the conventional offset printing. The inks are exposed to UV lights as they are printed, allowing our machines to print on complex materials such as polycarbonate sheets and laminations like Met Pad. Effects like Drip Off, earlier identified with specialized packagings are now achievable on commercial jobs with shorter runs.
Aqueous Coating
Our printed products are specially quoated with Aqueous Coating to achieve certain visual effects, also providing protection from moisture, scuffing, scratching and finger prints. This can be applied to single or both sides of the printed piece to create a glossy or dull finish and can also be applied selectively to highlight a certain visual element. Our inhouse aqueous coater blades ensures even distribution of coating across the printed sheet. In an event of a very urgent job, our aqueous coating ensures that prints are instantly dried and forwarded for fabrication, saving us a valuable waiting time used for drying the inks.
Quality Standards
With our dedicated Quality Check department in place, each printed job is efficiently scrutinized for consistency in print quality. We lay special focus on maintaining the colors on each run ensuring the quality advantage in the finished product. At Samrat, good print quality comes as standard, what we offer is top quality.
THE POST-PRESS
The open-up behaviour which determines how easily a book or a print can be opened, makes binding a valuable process in the Post-Press Process.
To ensure the excellence in the quality of product developed, we use following binding techniques with our advanced machines and manual fabricators:
Creative Lamination
The most important function of film lamination is the protection, for instance, of book or frequently used sales catalogs. A wide range of films, such as specific purpose matt, glossy or patterned can be used to create a particular look and feel.
Folding
Our Heidelberg Stahlfolder Machine is perfectly engineered to cater individual requirements of books, magazines, brochure, periodicals, etc. We at Samrat, very effectively fold signatures for productions with small or large print runs providing an ideal product.
Perfect Trim & Cut
At Samrat, we make sure that all the print runs are perfectly cut and have trimmed edges to a fully professional standard. Our advance die cutting machines enable us to create printed products of various shapes, forms and patterns actualizing your creative imagination.
Automation & Short Runs
Our machines are fully equipped to take on large orders within a short span of time. We can bind upto 50,000 catalogues and 20,000 perfect bound books in a day. We also have a specially designed digital binding unit which specifically addresses short runs and very urgent jobs.
Round the Clock Working
We understand that all the deadlines were yesterday. Thanks to our continuous upgrade and investment in only the best, we achieve results instantly. Our facility operates round the clock to make sure that dispatches and deliveries are made first thing in the morning.
Dispatch
We attach importance to flexible logistics making it an integral part of our system. Be it direct marketing products or on-demand partial shipments, we at Samrat process shipments to a wide range of different recipients, meeting any print logistics requirments.
Equipment | Brand/Make | Size | Qty. |
CTP (Computer to Plate) | Suprasetter by Heidelberg | 790mm X 1030mm | 1 |
Fuji | 790mm X 1030mm | 1 | |
Large Format Calibrated Printer | Epson | 40” Wide | 2 |
Designing & Editing Work Stations | Assorted | Assorted | 10 |
iMac | Apple | 29” Screen | 2 |
Flat-Bed Scanner | Canon | A3 | 1 |
Laser Printer | Canon | A4 | 2 |
Digital Printer | Konika Minolta | 13” X 47” | 1 |
i7 | Konika Minolta | - | 1 |
Densitometer | Techkon | - | 1 |
Equipment | Size | Colours |
Heidelberg CD-102 | 28” x 40” | 4 |
Ryobi 925 | 25” x 36” | 4+Coater |
Heidelberg CD-74 | 20” x 30” | 4+Coater |
Socomec 300kw U.P.S. provides an un-interrupted power supply to the machines in Press.
Samrat firmly believes in the approach and processes which are naturally good healthy in environmental terms. Most of the waste is recycled within the press and the rest is forwarded to well managed facilities. We use an Effluent Treatment Plant (ETP) to distill toxic materials from die’s & inks before transferring them into drainage. We are duly certified by the Delhi Pollution Control Committee and monitor our Emission/Effluent/Noise through authorized measures.