WAN-IFRA Research & Material Testing Centre

One-stop centre for your newsprint and newsink testing needs

Research & Material Testing Centre, started in January 2007, is the project from IFRA India in the service of the news publishing industry. It addresses the long felt need for an independent, professionally managed laboratory to test newsprint and newsink. Supported by the industry, the centre is one of its kind in Asia Pacific region solely dedicated to the news publishing industry. Please scroll down to download the brochure

Charter of the Centre

- Acts as an independent institute
- Identify the characteristics of materials and consumables of printing houses
- Create comparable test results across the industry
- Trouble shooting: Compare delivery against specifications
- Qualifies new materials in comparison to already used materials
- Bring out industry research reports

The Centre aims to help solve common print problems found in newspaper printing.

Testing services offered

The Centre offers newsprint, newsink and printability testing facilities on the following:

Quality Evaluation Service - QES
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Newsprint & Newsink

Basic & Optical Characteristics
- Grammage
- Paper shade
- Printed colour values (ink on paper)
- Print density
- Fineness of ink

Printability Testing
- Ink requirement
- Print through
- Colour picking
- Wet on wet printing with two colours
- Set off
- Strike through

Contact

Anand Srinivasan
Research Engineer
WAN-IFRA South Asia
III Floor, SIET Admin Building
54 K B Dasan Road
600 018 Chennai, India
Phone +91.44.4211 0640
Fax +91.44.2435 9744
anand.srinivasan@wan-ifra.org

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