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Introduction to Print Management

Print Management offshore demands high amount of involvement with the printers, requires strong resource and material assessment and constant verification of the desired standards. It becomes more critical if the procurement and transport is relied on the third party.

• I have pool of printers with whom I am working, but unable to streamline the quality of the prints?
• How should I ensure that the standards of the print requirement are met at the time of printing?
• The print requirement of the new job is very different than the current ones, how should I develop a new pool of printers?
• I would like to implement global standards for printers across all my vendors.
• I want the print job to be audited as against my quality manuals, before they are delivered here.
• Can someone with higher understanding of my job and its respective printing requirement, do a print check before the actual printing?
• Can I get the print jobs validated before they reach me?
• If the same job is printed again, can someone supervise the printing to achieve the same results as received in past?
• Printing presses in my vendor pool don't have the same machineries and same features, yet can they achieve the same print standards?
• Can the job be replicated as per the proofs approved by me?

If this is what you have been wondering since long, we have answers to it

G7 Certification

Print Excellence Recognition

India's only organization with a G7 certification. G7 experts at ALIA evaluate your print vendors and certify them as per the print standards matching your quality expectations.

• G7 is a state-of-art proof to print process that guarantees the implementation of ISO print standards and add modern metrics that enables an efficient way to match visual images from proof to print.
• G7 process is based on colorimetry and adds new metrics to control the factors that determine how images appear to the eye, this process can be applied to many diverse printing types.
• ALIA would certify your nominated printer as G7 Masters ensuring that all the ISO Print standards and G7 norms are duly honored. Hence, chances of the print being sub-optimal quality is remote if systems and processes followed inside is as per ISO standards.
• Quality reproducible: Gives you more confidence to outsource any assignment to the printer of your choice & location.
• G7 process controls can be applied to multiple print techniques starting from sheet fed brochures to packaging for a similar packaging experience.

Print Sourcing & Development

Your Offshore Print Governance

• Printer Development: Being in the packaging pre-media space for a decade now, ALIA has a roster of quality packaging printers in India. ALIA can help you develop a printer base in India by matching your job specs to the best printer that suits your commercials as well as quality.
• Print Audits: In case you already have a printer base in India and want ALIA's help in ensuring that your quality is maintained as per the expectations set, ALIA can audit the printers as per ISO print standards at regular intervals & produce the report on Development Action Plans (DAP reports).
• In case any printer is developed by ALIA from scratch, all print runs throughout the year is supervised & approved by ALIA.

Print Consultancy

ALIA - Your Print Counsel

An expert to guide your print implementation and vendor evaluations & selections.
• Print Consultancy: This service of ALIA helps you in many ways than one. In case you already have a printer in India from whom you are buying print but unable to match the quality output of your local printer, ALIA provides you with print consultancy enabling a root cause analysis.
• Vendor Performance Evaluation: In case you have a shortlisted database of commercially qualifies vendors and looking forward to technical evaluations, ALIA can help you in determining the best possible vendor and rate them with data backed by technical and real time analysis.
• Print Benchmarking & Cost Guidance Grids: You may also want to know more about the print market in India or you may want a print cost grid to know the print pricing structure in India. ALIA print team specializes in giving you a master print cost, master guide enabled technologically to search/rate as per your preferences.

Scanning & Proofing

• High end Scanners that provides you with higher degree of color accuracy & precision. This pool is run by a dedicated team of color reproduction specialist.
• Creating an accurate facsimile of the artwork before production run is critical. ALIA is capable of providing you with digital pre-press proofs, print proofs or contract proofs. Varying substrates are used including the one for actual print.
• ALIA has an EPSON proof set up which is also used to provide color corrected physical proofs.