Grafica Flextronica

Vile Parle East, Mumbai, Maharashtra

DMI Dhirubhai Mistry Institute for Print Education Technology, Research and Training, an industry initiative of Grafica.

Grafica is the only screen printing machinery manufacturer in the world to run a comprehensive training institute – DMI - in India, offering FREE training and education, through DMI (Dhirubhai Mistry Institute for Print Education Technology, Research and Training). DMI is the only one of its kind in Asia.

DMI activities:

• Workshops for printing professionals
• Short term / long term training programmes for printing technology students
• Students' visits to DMI
• Campus programmes at printing institutes
• Corporate programmes with custom made practical training
• Hands on training for customers’ operators.
• Onsite Training at customers place
• Educational road show all over India

These training are available for professionals from the printing industry – offset, screen, digital, flexo, for enhancing their skills. Students from various printing technology institutes also undergo special training at DMI. All programs are offered on an on-going basis, of course free of cost, throughout the year and fresh students are offered placements at the end of the course. So far DMI has completed 7 batches of students who had general education in printing but got specialized in screen printing along with industrial visits.

Grafica is a pioneer in taking screen printing education to the doorsteps of screen printers through a unique video film Screen on Screen. 15 cities were covered under this film, thus benefiting nearly 2000 screen and offset printers with knowledge on value addition.

Bhargav Mistry, Managing Director of Grafica, an expert in screen printing technology spearheads these educational/training programmes.

DMI’s Facilities:

DMI has a wide range of state-of-the-art screen printing machines and allied products.

Pre Press:

• Pneumatic fabric stretching equipment
• Automatic emulsion coating equipment
• Screen dryer with touch up table
• Screen exposing unit
• ashing booth
• Aluminum frames
• Tension meter
• Nano-Screen Maker 5-in-1

Press:

• CamShell
• Nano-Print
• Nano-Print plus

nano-prinTex – automatic world’s first all electrical-mechanical screen printing machine;

nano-prinTag - automatic world’s first all electrical-mechanical tagless label screen printing machine;

Squeegee sharpener

Post press:

• UV curing/IR dryer
• nano-flashTex – intelligent flash curing system
• nano-Texdryer – electric dryer

Other facilities:

• Ink Kitchen
• Consumable store
• All types of QC tools used screen printing
• Colour management system
• Pre press/positive output facility

Screen printing samples library:

DMI has huge collection of screen printed samples/products sourced from leading screen printing firms. These samples represent various applications of screen printing – broadly divided into three segments

Textile/garment screen printing,

Industrial screen printing

Commercial/graphics screen printing.

The sample library has labels and stickers, automobile decals, ceramic transfers, textile transfers, ceramic tiles, printed circuit boards, membrane switches, flexible PCBs, stickers, labels, textile printing, metal labels, precision dials, graphic overlays, greeting cards, wedding cards, general stationery, calendars, halftone printing for glow sings on acrylics, advertising and publicity material like signboard, sun-pack, many more.

DMI’s achievements:

Winner of many national and international awards DMI created a world record by achieving two hatricks, separately in ASPT and FESPA students' competitions. In FESPA's Youth competitions won awards for three years' in succession.

We are providing garment screen printing. Dmi institute, an industry initiative of grafica flextronica, conducts regular free workshops on advanced screen printing. Log on to www.graficaindia.com to register for next dmi workshop on 27, 28, 29 oct 2015 at vasai, near mumbai.