Export market · United States
Offset Printing for export to United States
Offset Printing are among the lines we supply most into the USA, where food processing, FMCG and retail make up much of the industrial base.
Offset Printing for United States
Demand in the USA is built on food processing, FMCG, retail, engineering and electronics. 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. USA 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.
The USA orders for offset printing arrive 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 the USA is food and supplement labels and cosmetic labels, so a offset printing enquiry from the USA is normally priced and consolidated alongside those. Nhava Sheva to New York, Savannah or Los Angeles is the leg it travels, and a temperate destination is what the board and the ink film have to be specified against for the USA.
Where this sits against the USA rules
Which rules apply depends on what the label goes onto. The regime your importer works to in the USA is FDA 21 CFR Part 101 food labelling, Nutrition Facts panel format, FSMA requirements, FTC origin marking, Proposition 65 warnings for California — and the pack language is English. None of that is what you are specifying when you buy offset printing, but it is what the rest of your the USA consignment travels under, so it is worth knowing which of your items it catches and which it does not.
Getting it to the USA
Nhava Sheva to New York, Savannah or Los Angeles — 22 to 32 days. 32 days in a container is long enough for the hold to swing between damp nights and hot afternoons many times over. Landing into United States, 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 United States
Offset Printing elsewhere
All United States ranges
Questions
Offset Printing in United States — questions we are asked
Do you supply offset printing in United States?
Yes. Everything is manufactured at our own works in Rajouri Garden, New Delhi and despatched from there. Nhava Sheva to New York, Savannah or Los Angeles — 22 to 32 days.
What do United States customers use offset printing for?
Food processing, FMCG and retail mainly. Food and supplement labels, cosmetic labels, industrial and asset labels, barcode media — this range covers the part of that list it applies to.
Is there a minimum order for offset printing to United States?
No fixed minimum for offset printing. United States consignments are quoted per job and usually consolidated with the other lines going the same way, which is what makes a smaller the USA run workable. Nhava Sheva to New York, Savannah or Los Angeles — 22 to 32 days.
How do the USA 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 the USA 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 the USA 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.