“Pragati for me is
a vision. A group of people collectively trying to make difference
in this world. A company who feels for everyone who comes into it
& also everyone who surrounds it from outside.”
- Vinod Jain
Magppie
Why Choose Us
Potential Customers:
We offer a complete solution
for designers, advertising agencies and professional
print buyers as a one-stop shop. Take advantage of
our quality and highly competitive prices for high-value
added, short-run jobs.
Our Focus Area:
The market is moving more
and more towards short-run, full-colour and high-quality
jobs. For these jobs, the raw-materials are a lower
percentage of the total cost – it is the cost
of skilled labor, and the set-up time and wastage
which are the larger percentage. We have sought to
address this niche by decreasing wastage and increasing
productivity in these short-run jobs by investing
in the latest technology. From our computer-to-plate
systems, to automatic plate loading, CIP3 ink-key
controls, every part of the system speeds up your
job and makes these short runs feasible. And of course,
our skilled work-force is the driving force behind
this.
Our less expensive labor
costs and our fast set-up times allow us to be very
competitive in the short run market when compared
to the market in the United States and Europe. For
example: the cost for a typical 4 page folder and
a 16 page catalog are given below.
JOB
Typical Cost
– USA
Pragati Cost
(including door delivery by FedEx anywhere in USA)
Quantity
500
1000
2500
500
1000
2500
4 page folder*
$725
$800
$1100
$300
$350
$540
16 page catalog**
$2250
$2800
$4000
$1050
$1350
$2100
Cost above includes processing
and outputting from your supplied files, printing and
transportation by FedEx to any single location in the
USA.
*Printed in full colour on
both sides on 90# text gloss. Finished size 8.5”x11”
**Printed in full colour throughout
on 60# text gloss. Finished size 8.5”x11”.
Saddle-stitched.
(Above American prices have been averaged from various
websites offering online pricelists)
Of
course, more important than the price is the quality
of the printed product. With a skilled and motivated
team who believe in giving their best, and with cutting
edge technology (CtP, Hexachrome and MIPP separation,
fully automated CIP3 compliant presses and a full service
bindery), we produce world-class printing. We pride
ourselves on our quality, and have been the recipients
of various printing awards including the “SAPPI
Asian Printer of the Year” the past three years
running (2001, 2002 & 2003).
Potential
Customers:
We offer high-quality
print & finishing services with many value-added
techniques such as Hexachrome, MIPP
& Bump color separations, high resolution FM screening,
and eye-catching finishing options such as Spot UV coating,
textured coating, die-cutting, embossing, foil-stamping,
hard-case binding, etc. We also have a packaging arm
which can come up with innovative, high-value packing
concepts.
Potential customers
include:
artists and photographers for their
portfolios, art exhibition catalogues
designers for their high end design
work, with an option of using the above value-added
options for making their printed work stand out
corporates for printing their short-run
product and service sellsheets, brochures and catalogs
in high-quality, full color with cost savings.
print-buyers, for out-sourcing their
short-run, full color work at attractive prices
How to Proceed:
You can price-out regular four colour process jobs in
standard sizes on directly on our website (for quantities
of upto 5000). Or you can email us with any special
requirements such as special sizes, spot colours or
additional finishing options.
Please note: High quantities can
mean heavy finished consignments, which increase the
transportation costs – so please get in touch
with us for jobs with quantities of over 5000 so we
can work out the logistics better. Also, low value added
products such as single color jobs might not have as
much savings to justify transportation costs.
If you add various “extras”
such as Hi-fi Hexachrome printing, Stochastic / FM Screening,
die-cutting, Spot UV Coating, special packaging, etc.,
the “value-added” is more. And the more
the “value-addition”, the more competitive
we are
File Transfer:You can send us your files
and job instructions over through our FTP server (details
here) or courier your
CDs and printouts to us (mailing
address).
Job Tracking:
Each job is tracked throughout the production cycle,
and you can check the status of your job by typing in
your unique Job Tracking number on our Website. For
regular customers, we can also create custom log-in
screens, where all the jobs in progress can be viewed
at once.
