Export market · Qatar
Offset Printing for export to Qatar
Offset Printing are among the lines we supply most into Qatar, where food processing, FMCG and retail make up much of the industrial base.
Offset Printing for Qatar
Demand in Qatar is built on food processing, FMCG, beverage bottling 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. Heat is the constraint in Qatar. UV exposure fades process inks faster there than the same job would fade in a temperate market, so anything displayed outdoors in Qatar needs a UV-stable build.
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 Qatar 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 Qatar is food and beverage labels and retail product labels, so a offset printing enquiry from Qatar is normally priced and consolidated alongside those. Nhava Sheva to Hamad Port is the leg it travels, and a hot and dry destination is what the board and the ink film have to be specified against for Qatar.
Where this sits against Qatar rules
Which rules apply depends on what the label goes onto. The regime your importer works to in Qatar is GSO standards, Qatar General Organization for Standards and Metrology, halal declaration, shelf-life rules that are stricter than several neighbours — and the pack language is Arabic and English. None of that is what you are specifying when you buy offset printing, but it is what the rest of your Qatar consignment travels under, so it is worth knowing which of your items it catches and which it does not.
Getting it to Qatar
Nhava Sheva to Hamad Port — 5 to 7 days. At 7 days at sea this is a short route, so the risk is handling at either end rather than time in the hold. Landing into Qatar’s heat, an adhesive specified at Indian room temperature is close to its working limit on the day the offset printing arrive.
In this range
Posters, catalogues, brochures and printed folding cartons — 4 product lines in all.
Also supplied to Qatar
Offset Printing elsewhere
All Qatar ranges
Questions
Offset Printing in Qatar — questions we are asked
Do you supply offset printing in Qatar?
Yes. Everything is manufactured at our own works in Rajouri Garden, New Delhi and despatched from there. Nhava Sheva to Hamad Port — 5 to 7 days.
What do Qatar customers use offset printing for?
Food processing, FMCG and retail mainly. Food and beverage labels, retail product labels, hologram seals, carton labels — this range covers the part of that list it applies to.
Is there a minimum order for offset printing to Qatar?
No fixed minimum for offset printing. Qatar consignments are quoted per job and usually consolidated with the other lines going the same way, which is what makes a smaller Qatar run workable. Nhava Sheva to Hamad Port — 5 to 7 days.
How do Qatar 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 Qatar 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 Qatar 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.