Hyderabad,Oct' 05:
Pragati has been in the printing
field for over 40 years, and it has
earned the loyalty of some of the
top corporate houses in India with
its quality, timeliness and
customer-service.
Pragati is a one-stop service
provider with prepress, printing and
finishing/bindery under a single
roof. With 6 presses capable of 4-6
colour printing at speeds of upto
15,000 impressions per hour and
sizes of upto 28.5 x 40, Pragati has
the capacity and the redundancy
built into the system to handle
large jobs with the quickest
turn-around time. A fully digital
prepress department with direct CTP
technology, as well as a
full-service bindery add to the
quality, speed and efficiency.
The most important component of any
workflow are the people. Pragati
boasts of an excellent workforce of
highly motivated people trained
in-house and adept at handling
state-of-the-art equipment.
Pragati was started in 1962 by
Hanumantha Rao, a journalist, with
the dream of establishing a
top-of-the-line printing house.
“Pragati” means “progress” in
Sanskrit.
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To ensure the continuity of his
dream, Hanumantha Rao then
groomed his sons, Narendra and
Mahendra to take over. The
brothers set about modernizing
the press at every level,
sourcing equipment from the best
of international manufacturers.
Their passion for good quality
printing and design, deep
knowledge and understanding of
technology involved, combined
with hands-on work experience at
the shop floor
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level, saw Hanumantha Rao's
dream become a successful
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Pragati was the first company to
introduce Phototypesetting in South
India in 1979. This was the take-off
point, with many customers taking
advantage of this technology for
setting type for their designs (this
was before the advent of desktop
publishing and Macintoshes in 1984).
This brought many customers to
Pragati, who have remained with us
since then. The first 4 colour
offset printing press was introduced
in 1985, and we went on to install
India’s first printing press with
computer controlled register,
ink-key setting and dampening in
1988. We remain pioneers, being the
first to install CIP3 compliant
presses & high-end commercial CTP
devices in India. We were also among
the first to offer online aqueous
coating as well as Spot UV Coating
technologies to the market.
A simple but focused philosophy,
“Produce the highest quality product
in the least amount of time at a
good price-performance ratio" has
seen Pragati grow from strength to
strength. And along the way, Pragati
has built up sound client
relationships – so much so that
Pragati is perceived not merely as a
supplier of printed materials, but
as an extension of a client's
marketing team.
Today, Pragati services its
customers world-wide from Hyderabad
and its marketing office in Mumbai
(Bombay).
As with clients, a strong
relationship has been established
with employees as well. The work
force at Pragati is in fact its
biggest asset - the first binder and
pressman employed at the press are
still active!
Every aspect of Pragati’s business
exudes professionalism and progress,
at the same time not forgetting that
it’s still the old-fashioned ideals
like quality, trust and loyalty that
make Pragati successful.
Pragati has been bestowed with many
honours in printing.
vSAPPI
Asian Printer of the Year 2003
vAwards
Presented at the"SAAPI Asian Printer
of the Year 2002 " held at Hong Kong
vAwards
Presented at the"SAPPI Asian Printer
of the Year 2001"
v2nd
South Asia Print Congress held in
March 2000 in Katmandu
vNational
Awards for Excellence in Printing
vBest
Printer in Quality in the SAARC
Countries awarded in New Delhi.
vCAG
& Ad Club Gold Award for 1997.
vExcellence
in Printing - 5th World Print
Congress, 1996.
vNational
Award for Excellence in Printing for
1992-93, awarded by the then
President of India, Dr. Shankar
Dayal Sharma.
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