Printing Infrastructures
Pre Press: Pre Press is one of the most important aspects of the Quality Printing Process. Nest has state of the art Thermal CtP Kodak 400 Platesetter with a production capacity of 22 plates per hour (the first CtP unit of the State) which provides inhouse requirement as well as pre press requirement of around 60 Printing units which also include 2 four Offset units 3 bicolour offset units and remaining Single Colour Offset units.
Press, printing: Press section is where actual printing happens in the offset Printing lifcycle. Nest is relying its printing on a 4 Colour SOM 425 HMT as well as SOM 136HMT. SOM 425 HMT 4 colour offset although is a reliable quality printing Machinewith speed @ around 5500iph.
Post Press: Post Press section is one of the most vital area of the Printing section as value addition of the Printed products is being done in this stage, such as lamination, Perfect Binding, Hard case making wiro binding etc. Nest Advertising & marketing Pvt Ltd is one of the few Printing Houses having some of the latest post Press and finishing machineries. The various Post Press includes the following machines:
- Ratan Folding Machine, F3/S72 Paper Folding: Nest has a Ratan Folding Machine from Kohima machine Tools which is a manually feeding machine. The folding unit enable the quick delivery of Brochure folders and Booklet.
- Perfect Book Binding machine (WB 2000- BOOK BINDING MACHINE ): Book finishing by perfect binding is the hallmark of Book Printing and Publishing Industry. Perfect Binding gives the much desire quality and finishing of the books magazines, Souvenir and promotional Booklets (Pages ranging from 40 and above). Nest is equipped with a 6 Clamp perfect binding Machine Wellbound 2000 - which comes with online creasing facilities.
- Hy-Teck 24 Dual Laminator with Integrated Lamination Unit: Lamination is one of the most important part of the post press activities which provides the covers, labels etc lamination. Nest has a Hy-Teck print Mac lamination Machine 24" capable of laminating both thermal and Cold laminations. The lamination machine is part of the Project and is financed by SBI Secretariat Branch. Nest is providing lamination facilities to almost all the press of Manipur.
- Fortec 800FT Semi Automatic Case Making: Hard case making Machine is needed for hard case binding of Books, Coffee table Books and table Calendars. The machine provide better finishing of the books, less operating cost, and more production capacity.
- Fortec Joint Forming Automatic machine: Join forming machine is one of the component of the Hard case making machine which provide joint forming for quality finishing of the hard case binded books
- Robertson Brand Premium Thread Sewing machine 24": Thread sewing machine provides books finishing with thread sewing which is very essential for hard case binding and thick book 400 pages and above and also for Diary. Nest is able to provide Book Printing with the options of Thread sewing finish which provided better finishing and lifespan of the printed Books.
Digital Press
To cater to short run jobs and for short run colour jobs nest is equipped with Xerox 550 series. With these machines and infrastructure, nest is equipped to cater to any short of Quality printing requirement both long run and Short run jobs.