Export market · Canada
Offset Printing for export to Canada
Offset Printing are among the lines we supply most into Canada, where food processing, FMCG and retail make up much of the industrial base.
Offset Printing for Canada
Demand in Canada is built on food processing, beverage bottling, FMCG and retail. Food processing, FMCG and retail in particular buy this range steadily, and the work is repeat work — the die, the material code and the colour target stay on file so a reorder is a phone call rather than a fresh setup.
What decides the specification
With offset printing the question is always registration held across a long run, and colour read against an approved target. Canada conditions are manageable, so the job turns on registration and colour consistency across the run rather than on the substrate surviving the climate there.
On consumer cartons the colour has to match across every SKU in the family and across reprints months apart, which is a proofing and ink-management discipline rather than a press one.
A Canada order for offset printing arrives against a seasonal pack calendar, so the reorder is usually the same die with a new flavour panel. What already moves from our floor to Canada is food and beverage labels and cosmetic labels, so a offset printing enquiry from Canada is normally priced and consolidated alongside those. Nhava Sheva to Montreal or Vancouver is the leg it travels, and a temperate destination is what the board and the ink film have to be specified against for Canada.
Where this sits against Canada rules
Which rules apply depends on what the label goes onto. The regime your importer works to in Canada is Safe Food for Canadians Regulations, CFIA bilingual labelling, Nutrition Facts / Valeur nutritive in both languages, metric declarations — and the pack language is English and French, both mandatory. None of that is what you are specifying when you buy offset printing, but it is what the rest of your Canada consignment travels under, so it is worth knowing which of your items it catches and which it does not.
Getting it to Canada
Nhava Sheva to Montreal or Vancouver — 24 to 34 days. 34 days in a container is long enough for the hold to swing between damp nights and hot afternoons many times over. Landing into Canada, the usual complaint is not failure but curl at the liner edge, which becomes a storage question once the offset printing are off the ship.
In this range
Posters, catalogues, brochures and printed folding cartons — 4 product lines in all.
Also supplied to Canada
Offset Printing elsewhere
All Canada ranges
Questions
Offset Printing in Canada — questions we are asked
Do you supply offset printing in Canada?
Yes. Everything is manufactured at our own works in Rajouri Garden, New Delhi and despatched from there. Nhava Sheva to Montreal or Vancouver — 24 to 34 days.
What do Canada customers use offset printing for?
Food processing, FMCG and retail mainly. Food and beverage labels, cosmetic labels, consumer product labels, carton labels — this range covers the part of that list it applies to.
Is there a minimum order for offset printing to Canada?
No fixed minimum for offset printing. Canada consignments are quoted per job and usually consolidated with the other lines going the same way, which is what makes a smaller Canada run workable. Nhava Sheva to Montreal or Vancouver — 24 to 34 days.
How do Canada buyers usually order offset printing?
Against a seasonal pack calendar, so the reorder is usually the same die with a new flavour panel — that is the pattern across most of our Canada work in this range. Tell us the quantity and the reorder interval and we will quote the die and the material once, then hold both on file for Canada repeats.
Tell us what it has to stick to
Send the pack, the quantity and the market it ships to. We come back with a specification, a price and a lead time.