IFRA India

About us

IFRA India, headquartered in Chennai, started its operation in 2001 as a private limited company registered under the Indian Companies Act. But the origin of IFRA in India dates back to 1992 when the services of IFRA, with only an Annual Conference, were offered in this country through a representative office. From this modest beginning, it today stands as a separate company catering to the needs of the Indian publishing industry.

Currently there are about 42 members - both publications and suppliers. Most of the leading publications in India are our members, the list includes ABP, Amar Ujala, Bartaman, Daily Ajit, Dainik Bhaskar, Dainik Jagran, Dainik Sambad, Deccan Chronicle, Deccan Herald, Dinamalar, DNA, Eenadu, India Today, Lokmat, Malayala Manorama, Manipal Media, Mathrubhumi, Mid Day, Nai Dunia, New Indian Express, The Daily Thanthi, The Hindu, The Hindustan Times, The Times of India, The Tribune, The Hind Samachar, Sanmarg and Sakal.

IFRA Expo India / IFRA India Conference

IFRA India conference is South Asia's premier event for the publishing industry. The event is co-sponsored by Indian Newspaper Society (INS), is attended by senior and middle level executives from all leading newspapers of India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Middle East. The IFRA India 2008 Conference – South Asia’s premier event for the news publishing industry – will take place this year on 17 and 18 September in Goa. More information about the event will come up soon at this location.

IFRA Expo India, the second-largest international exhibition in the world for trends and practices in the newspaper printing and publishing industry, will return in September 2009. The three-day event to be organised by IFRA India will be held from 15 to 17 September 2009 at the Hitex Exhibition Centre in Hyderabad
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More IFRA India Services

IFRA-RIND Material Testing & Research Centre
IFRA India and the Research Institute for Newspaper Development (RIND) have joined forces to start the IFRA-RIND Material Testing & Research Centre, which was inaugurated on 22 January 2007 by Reiner Mittelbach, CEO of IFRA. Read more

Consulting Solutions & Trainings
IFRA India brings the IFRA expertise in solving many of their technical problems to its members in India. Many leading newspapers regularly consult IFRA on technical issues. Implementation of Colour Management, Colour Quality Audit in Reproduction and Print, Press Acceptance Tests, Selection of Systems, Designing Prepress Workflows are some of the popular consulting modules offered in India. If you are interested in knowing what IFRA consulting can do for you, please feel free to contact us. IFRA India also offers training programmes catering to the needs of the industry. These programmes are offered as in-house programmes for individual publications on request and also as common programme for the benefit of many publications. Pressmen Training, Prepress Training, Training in Digital Photography are some of the programmes held in the past.

Market Research
IFRA India can offer market research services in the country. We have the right expertise to undertake such research projects concerning Indian publishing industry. In the past, we have done Market Research on Installed Editorial Systems in Indian newspapers. IFRA Asia in Singapore publishes "Asian Newspaper Directory" once in every two years and IFRA India contributes to its information on Indian publishing industry. If India is one of your markets and you have market research requirements, contact us for solutions.

Publications
IFRA India has a tie-up with Research Institute for Newspaper Development (RIND) for publishing 8 pages of content from "Newspaper Techniques" every month in RIND's monthly magazine "RIND Survey". As RIND Survey reaches all the members of the Indian Newspaper Society (INS), this tie-up addresses the INS members with stories on technical issues that impact their business.

Indian Coldset Offset Newspaper Standardisation (ICONS)
IFRA has lauched on March 2004 a new project titled ICONS, involving a group of nine Indian newspapers - ABP, Deccan Herald, Hindustan Times, Lokmat, Malayala Manorama, Mathrubhumi, Mid Day, The Hindu and The Times of India. The objective of the project is to create a common printing profile based on ISO 12647-3 standards that will be THE STANDARD for reproduction and printing process across these newspapers.

Boon to ad agencies and advertisers
Gone will be days with different advertisement materials for different publications and the restless expectation on good quality reproduction. As a result of this standardisation project, an advertiser can supply same set of ad materials and can expect excellent reproduction results. This will lead to decrease in prepress costs for the advertisers and improved quality in newspapers. This common printing profile is now introduced to advertising agencies and newspaper advertisers, to transform it to practical usage in the advertising agencies.
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Contact IFRA India

IFRA India
III Floor, SIET Administration Building
54 K B Dasan Road
Chennai, 600 018 / India
Tel.: +91.44.42112893
Fax: +91.44.2435.9744
infoindia@ifra.com