Export market · Kenya
Offset Printing for export to Kenya
Offset Printing are among the lines we supply most into Kenya, where food processing and FMCG make up much of the industrial base.
Offset Printing for Kenya
Demand in Kenya is built on food processing, FMCG, agri-inputs and brand protection. Food processing and FMCG 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. Kenya 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 Kenya 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 Kenya is food and FMCG labels and agricultural input labels, so a offset printing enquiry from Kenya is normally priced and consolidated alongside those. Nhava Sheva or Mundra to Mombasa is the leg it travels, and a temperate destination is what the board and the ink film have to be specified against for Kenya.
Where this sits against Kenya rules
Which rules apply depends on what the label goes onto. The regime your importer works to in Kenya is KEBS standardisation mark, Pre-Export Verification of Conformity before shipment, country of origin and metric declarations — and the pack language is English and Kiswahili. None of that is what you are specifying when you buy offset printing, but it is what the rest of your Kenya consignment travels under, so it is worth knowing which of your items it catches and which it does not.
Getting it to Kenya
Nhava Sheva or Mundra to Mombasa — 12 to 16 days. 16 days in a container is long enough for the hold to swing between damp nights and hot afternoons many times over. Landing into Kenya, 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 Kenya
Offset Printing elsewhere
All Kenya ranges
Questions
Offset Printing in Kenya — questions we are asked
Do you supply offset printing in Kenya?
Yes. Everything is manufactured at our own works in Rajouri Garden, New Delhi and despatched from there. Nhava Sheva or Mundra to Mombasa — 12 to 16 days.
What do Kenya customers use offset printing for?
Food processing and FMCG mainly. Food and FMCG labels, agricultural input labels, security holograms, carton and shipper labels — this range covers the part of that list it applies to.
Is there a minimum order for offset printing to Kenya?
No fixed minimum for offset printing. Kenya consignments are quoted per job and usually consolidated with the other lines going the same way, which is what makes a smaller Kenya run workable. Nhava Sheva or Mundra to Mombasa — 12 to 16 days.
How do Kenya 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 Kenya 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 Kenya 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.