Offset Printing
Indonesia Printer installs more web capacity from Goss International
Tuesday 21. December 2010 - Former sheetfed printer installs second Goss web press
New capabilities attract customers and enquiries
One of Indonesia’s largest commercial print providers, PT. Indonesia Printer based in Jakarta has installed a Goss Community SSC press to provide additional production capacity for its growing business.
The single-tower four-color Community SSC press has a 546 mm cut-off and is only the second web press at PT. Indonesia Printer, complementing heatset production from a Goss M-600 press installed earlier this year.
PT. Indonesia Printer is a commercial contract printer producing a full range of printed products, including annual reports, brochures, coffee-table books, greeting cards, general books and posters. The company also prints more than 60 high-quality magazines for the local market including Cosmopolitan, Elle, FHM, Bazaar, Indonesia Tatler and Prestige.
The new Community SSC press was originally chosen for the production of books and to expand the company’s portfolio to include tabloid-format publications and supermarket flyers and inserts. Since installation, PT. Indonesia Printer has been impressed at the quality available from the coldset system and the production opportunities this offers.
“This company will always remain focused on the future – it is our greatest service to our customers to anticipate their needs and go beyond all their expectations,” comments Welly Bolung, founder and president of PT. Indonesia Printer. “This is why we made the move into web printing and why we have followed that decision with the installation of the Community press. The new capabilities have attracted new customers both from the domestic market and internationally, and our output has already doubled since installing web capacity this year.
“Web printing will continue to be an essential contributor to the development of publication printing in the future,” Bolung confirms. “And when you talk about web, Goss technology is the number one.”
According to Tigran Adiwirya of Web Sistim Servis, the local agent for Goss International in Indonesia, Welly Bolung is widely credited as a visionary and innovator in the Indonesian market, having pioneered many technologies including CTP and digital offset printing: “Indonesia Printer is not a company that follows trends, it leads the market. Indonesia Printer is investing in higher capacity. They can see the opportunities presenting as the range of tastes and interests in the Indonesian market continues to grow and diversify.”
Established in 1983 with only one secondhand single-color sheetfed press producing simple information booklets, Indonesia Printer today employs approximately 500 full-time staff and operates 17 presses. In 2005 the business was expanded to become the first manufacturer of double-loop wire binding through a subsidiary named WBI (Wonder Bind International). This was followed in 2008 by the establishment of Karina Envelope to complement the company’s stationery division. Indonesia Printer has been awarded numerous prestigious international awards such as “Best Printer” accolade from Conqueror Conquest Award, UK and a Gold Medal from Asia Print Award, Singapore.