Printing in Asia, Year 2000 Sally Taylor -- 6/26/00 Direct contacts for Far East manufacturers
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India - Indonesia - Japan - Malaysia
Singapore - South Korea - Taiwan - Thailand Hong Kong A-D
Acorn Press Ltd Contact: Yvonne Wong, general manager 27 Paterson St., 12th floor, A1, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong Phone: 852-2890-5738 Fax: 852-2576-1813 acornpr@netvigator.com
| Personalized conventional print brokering services in Hong Kong by an old hand at the biz. | Anpak Printing Ltd (part of Anpak Holdings Ltd) Contact: Caren Ip, marketing manager, overseas 9/F Eastern Centre, 1065 Kings Road, Hong Kong Phone: 852-2811-4118 Fax: 852-2565-7710 anpak@anpak.com www.anpak.com
| Juvenile picture, pop-up and novelty books, 40% percent export with most of their factory in China. | Asia One Printing Limited Contact: Peter M.P. Lau, managing director 7/F, Units A&B, Sunview Industrial Bldg., 3 On Yip St., Chaiwan, Hong Kong Phone: 852-2889-2320 Fax: 852-2889-3837 laupeter@pacific.net.hk www.asiaone.com.hk
| A small Hong Kong operation, begun in 1997 with local commercial and financial work and now expanding to export business. Conventional work only. | Bright Arts (HK) Ltd Contact: Sunny Shum, managing director Tung Chong Facty Bldg., 11/F, 659 Kings Road, North Point, Hong Kong Phone: 852-2562-0119 Fax: 852-2565-7031 williyue@bahk.com.hk
| Color separation services including digital proofs and wet proofs. William Yue, senior customer service manager. Uses Imago and also works directly with overseas customers | C&C Offset Printing Co. Ltd. Subsidiary of C&C Joint Printing Co. (HK) Ltd. Contact: Zhuang Xian Qing, director and GM 3/F, C&C Bldg, 36 Ting Lai Road, Tai Po, Hong Kong Phone: 852-2666-4988 Fax: 852-2666-4938 offsetprinting@candcprinting.comkenlee@candcprinting.com www.ccoffset.com/~ccoffset
| First Hong Kong book printer to be awarded ISO9002 and ISO14001, plus hundreds of awards worldwide for printing quality since 1980. Large Hong Kong operation with nine presses and full prepress, including CTP. Sister operation in Shenzhen with 10 additional sheet fed and web presses and conventional prepress, plus major hand assembly factory. Jackson Leung, director & deputy manager, and Ken Y.L. Lee, sales director & assistant general manager. See U.S. sales offices. | Colorcraft Ltd. Contact: Bundy Walker, director Kodak House, Phase II,16/F, Unit 8&9, 321 Java Road, North Point, Hong Kong Phone: 852-2590-9033 Fax: 852-2590-9005 or 2590-9271 info.cc@colorcraft.com.hk Bundy.cc@colorcraft.com.hk
| Doing a wide variety of work, from textbooks to four-color picture books, calendars and novelty products involving a lot of hand assembly, also CD production. The oldest print brokerage firm in Hong Kong, run by the daughter of the founder. | Colorprint Offset (Colorprint Int'l Ltd) Contact: Lydia Choy, production manager Unit 1808-09, 18/F, 8 Commercial Tower, 8 Sun Yip Street, Chai Wan, Hong Kong Phone: 852-2896-7777 Fax: 852-2889-6606 colorprt@hkstar.com
| Now with seven presses, as well as a NYC office, this family-held company d s everything from hand assembly to stochastic printing, all in China. Peter Lau, managing director. Also see Justin Wakefield, Lee Moncho and Kate Brady in New York. | Creative Printing Limited Contact: Edmond Yeung, director & general manager 15C Wah Ha Industrial Building, 8 Shipyard Lane, Quarry Bay, Hong Kong Phone: 852-2563-2187 Fax: 852-2565-9069 rayshing@creativeprinting.com.hk
| Has a long history with U.S. clients and the jobs; invested in direct-to-plate technology last year to reduce front-end costs on high-quality projects in Hong Kong. Offers a range of printing services, from hand assembly contracted in PRC to coffee-table, including juveniles. Raymond Shing, marketing manager. See Suzy Morris in New Jersey office. | Dai Nippon Printing Co. (Hong Kong) Ltd. Contact: Yoshio Akasaka, sales & marketing director for U.S. book publishers Tsuen Wan Ind. Centre, 5/f, 220-248 Texaco Rd., Tseun Wan, NT Hong Kong Phone: 852-2408-4203 Fax: 852-2407-6201 info@dnp.com.hk
| One of the pioneer Hong Kong printers, the printing school for most of the rest, DNP is still doing the bulk of their printing in Hong Kong, with a new CTP system installed last year and digital printing services as well. A new 8-color Heidelberg press gives them three times the productivity, and a close relationship with one PRC printer gives them hand-assembly services and traditional softcover titles at more competitive prices. Also Tatsuya Hisakura, Deputy Director. See the DNP (America) Inc. operations in New York and California | Digital Prepress & Printing Professional Ltd. Contact: Billy Tse, director Rm 3, 20/F, Block B, Fortune Fty Bldg, 40 Lee Chung St, Chaiwan, Hong Kong Phone: 852-2505-1933 Fax: 852-2595-9151 dppp@netvigator.com
| Color separation and printing, all for export. Works closely with agents and also deals directly with customers abroad. Color separation and film output in Hong Kong, printing in Hong Kong and China. |
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Elegance Printing & Book Binding Co., Ltd Contact: Ngai Kam Seung, managing director Block A, 4/f Hoi Bun Ind. Bldg., 6 Wing Yip Street, Kwun Tong, Hong Kong Phone: 852-2342-0109 Fax: 852-2790-3614 elegpg@hkstar.com www.elegancebooks.com
| Conventional, nonconventional and hand assembly work. Using the latest CREO front end DTP system, Scitex output, Heidelberg flat-bed scanner, plus 11 Macs and 11 presses, including 2 to 6-color Heidelbergs in Hong Kong and another 4-color new in April. In China, 600 workers and 5 additional presses. Candy Leung is Customer Services Manager. See Frank DeLuca at Elegance in New York State. | Elite Printing Company Ltd Contact: Fred Chu, sales & marketing manager 1401 Hong Man Ind. Centre, 2 Hong Man Street, Chaiwan, Hong Kong Phone: 852-2558-0119 Fax: 852-2897-2675 sales@elite.com.hk elitemkt@elite.com.hk www.elite.com.hk
| A medium-sized printer with a giant China operation, 500,000 sq ft, offering export work in both conventional work and hand assembly. Uses Powerscan for prepress work. Susan Chan is sales directress. | Everbest Printing Co. Ltd. Contact: Kenneth Chung, managing director C5, 10/F, Ko Fai Ind. Bldg., 7 Ko Fai Road, Kowloon, Hong Kong Phone: 852-2727-4433 Fax: 852-2772-7687 sales@everbest.com.hk ken@everbest.com.hk www.everbest.com.hk
| With a range of services from books to book plus, this company is a regular winner of printing awards, including high quality photographic and photo stock books and catalogs. Big operation in Nansha, China, where all production and hand assembly work is done. Also Ronny Ng & Frankie Lee, Customer Account Executives. See George Dick at Four Color in Kentucky & New York, Spectrum or Adgrafix on the West Coast. | Evergreen Colour Separation (Scanning) Co. Ltd. Contact: Edward Yu, sales manager 19F, Melbourne Ind Bldg., 16 Westlands Road, Hong Kong Phone: 852-2565-0329 Fax: 852-2811-0554 egscanhk@vol.net
| Prepress house, working independently and with Kwong Fat in export book printing work. See Kwong Fat and ISCOA in the USA. | Excel Printing Co. (Excel United Co. Ltd.)Contact: Samuel Chung, director Block B, 6th Floor, Sunview Industrial Bldg, 3 On Yip St, Chaiwan, Hong Kong Phone: 852-2889-1078 Fax: 852-2889-1721, 2889-1443 excelptg@netvigator.com
| Printing, binding and hand assembly in both Hong Kong and China. Hong Kong staff manages 3000 PRC workers on a 600,000-sq.-ft. site, where six new four-color presses will be installed this year. Highly specialized in pop-up work and stationery products, and largest producer of sound-module books for the U.S. See Patrick Riley at Excel USA. | Global Printing Services Ltd. Contact: Celine Chow, production manager Flat 11B, E Tat Factory Bldg., 4 Heung Yip Rd, Wong Chuk Hang, Hong Kong Phone: 852-2553-9168 Fax: 852-2518-4063 globalprt@hknet.com
| High-quality conventional work for export in shorter runs in a medium sized operation in Hong Kong. Twelve years old, with five Heidelberg presses and perfect binding line, they use a casebound line in PRC and partner with Ocean for prepress work. Henry Lam is managing director. See Pacific Rim International Printing in Los Angeles. | Golden Cup Printing Co Ltd. and Sota Graphic Arts Co. Ltd. Contact: Mary Yeung, deputy gen. manager 6F Seapower Ind Ctr., 177 Hoi Bun Rd, Kwun Tong, Kowloon, Hong Kong Phone: 852-2343-4254 Fax: 852-2341-5426 mary@goldencup.com.hk www.goldencup.com.hk/
| From desktop graphics to full color printing, various binding and packaging projects, including hand work in the PRC. KK Yeung is managing director. | H&Y Printing Ltd. Contact: Louis C.K. Ma, director, Blk C, 4/F, Shing Tak Industrial Bldg., 44 Wong Chuk Hang Road, Aberdeen, Hong Kong Phone: 852-2870-2379 Fax: 852-2555-0028 hyphk@netvigator.com
| Part of the Hing Yip Printing company, this is the export printing arm, mostly conventional books with copious printing and binding equipment, both in Hong Kong and China. Jason Ma is operations director. See Thomas Chung at H&Y in California. | Hindy's Enterprise Co. Ltd. Contact: Cecilia Chung, general manager 20A Melbourne Ind Bldg., 16 Westlands Road, Quarry Bay, Hong Kong Phone: 852-2516-6318 Fax: 852-2516-5161 wcprint@netvigator.com
| D s all printing work in Hong Kong, with access to hand assembly in China. Law Ming Wah is director . | Hoi Kwong Printing Co. Ltd Contact: David Chan, director 5/F, Block C-D, Wah Ha Industry Bldg, 8 Shipyard Lane, Quarry Bay, Hong Kong Phone: 852-2562-1096, pager 7301-4756 Fax: 852-2564-2142 dchan@hoikwong.com www.hoikwong.com
| Printing and binding in Hong Kong with hand assembly in Shenzhen. Started export work seven years ago and works with many HK graphic designers. Family-owned; son David spent 15 years in the U.S. | Hong Kong Scanner Arts Intl. Ltd. & Hong Kong Graphics & Printing Ltd. Contact: Wayne C. Ling, director, operations and marketing Blk B1., 6/F, Ft. B1, Fortune Fty. Bldg., 40 Lee Chung St., Chaiwan, Hong Kong Phone: 852-2976-0289 Fax: 852-2976-0292 or 2719-1442 hksagp@netvigator.com
| Color separation, prepress, printing and binding services in Hong Kong and China, plus distribution services in China. Y.C. Luk, managing director. See Thomas Hau at HK Scanner Craft Co Ltd, Astoria, NY, or Laurie Gilbert at HK Scanner Arts Intl. in Santa Monica, CA, or Allan Cabrera at HK Graphics & Printing Ltd., in Philadelphia, PA. | Hua Yang Printing Holdings Co. Ltd. Contact: Alex M.K. Ngan, president, CEO Unit B, Block 1, 25/F Tai Ping Ind. Centre, 57 Ting Kok Road, Tai Po, NT, Hong Kong Phone: 852-2256-6888 (direct) or 2665-6992 Fax: 852-2411-0235 or 2416-6318 (North American Marketing) richardb@huayangprinting.com
| The pioneer pop-up manufacturer in China, they now offer a wide range of novelty and book-plus services. Part of toy manufacturer, Zindart, listed on the NASDAC and using their customer service system. efficiency. Richard Burgess is v-p of marketing. | Hung Hing Offset Printing Co Ltd. Contact: Alvin Chan, Executive Director Tai Po Industrial Estate, 17-19 Dai Hei St., Tai Po, NT Hong Kong Phone: 852-2664-8682 Fax: 852-2664-2070 info@hhop.com.hk matthew@hhop.com.hk
| Excellent commercial and packaging printers with massive operations in China and a joint venture paper company. Printing and hand assembly projects for a wide range of juvenile clients, including both toy and book companies. Doing lenticular printing among many unique services. Piquet Graphics is prepress house. Matthew Yum is Managing Director. See Bill Tollin in US office. | Imago Services HK Ltd. Contact: Kendrick Cheung, managing director 653-659 Kings Road, 6th Floor, Flat B, Tung Chong Fkty Bldg, North Point, Hong Kong Phone: 852-2811-3316 Fax: 852-2597-5256 kendrickc@imago.com.hk
| Print broker with full-time staff for book-plus work as well as conventional jobs both in Hong Kong and China. Singapore office as well as New York and California offices. | Jade Productions (A Division of Murrayfield Ltd.) Contact: Ken Kong, general manager Flat 12, 18/F, Kodak House, Phase 2, No 39 Healthy St. East, North Point, Hong Kong Phone: 852-2967-9360 Fax: 852-2967-1800 jadepro@netvigator.com
| Coordinating novelty, book plus and regular juvenile books, this broker service is owned by specialist print "old hands" James Binnie in the UK and Dave Zable at Blaze in New York | Kwong Fat Offset Printing Co. Ltd. Contact: Lawrence Wong, managing director 10/F, Wah Ha Factory Bldg,8 Shipyard Lane, Quarry Bay, Hong Kong Phone: 852-2562-2144 Fax: 852- 2565-7736 kwongfat@kwongfat.com
| With two plants, one in Hong Kong and one in Dongguan, China, they offer full-service printing and binding plus hand work, die-cutting and co-packaging facilities. See U.S. sales office in Yardley, PA. |
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L. Rex Printing Co. Ltd. Contact: Patrick Liu, Sales Manager 3 Fl., Blue Box Factory Bldg., 25 Hing Wo Street, Tin Wan, Aberdeen, Hong Kong Phone: 852-2553-4211 Fax: 852-2873-0032 or 2873-9123 patrick@l-rex.com anthony@l-rex.com
| Works directly with overseas customers, all export. Dongguan plant d s everything, including hand assembly. Anthony Fan is export manager. | Lammar Offset Printing Ltd. Contact: Mak Chiu, managing director 19F, Aik San Ind Bldg., 14 Westland Rd., Quarry Bay, Hong Kong Phone: 852-2563-1068 Fax: 852-2811-3375 lammar@netvigator.com
| Printing in HK for all kinds of books. March Printing and Graphics is prepress partner. Vicki Ho is assistant to Mr. Chiu. See Peter Siu in Darien, IL | Leefung-Asco Printers Ltd. Contact: Peter Yang, managing director Rm 1001, Wing On House, 71 Des V ux Rd, Central Hong Kong Phone: 852-2810-6801 Fax: 852- 2810-5530 or 2810-5612 rebecca@leefung-asco.com.hk
| All printing operations an hour north of Hong Kong with the first web machine in China (now two) and a wide range of sheetfed and binding services for books. Big facility in Dungguan for hand work, with dormitories for 3000. Ronald Yang Sales Manager for hand assembly. Rebecca King is general manager. See JY in New York. | Leo Paper Products Ltd. Contact: Kelly Fok, Marketing Director Federal Ind. Bldg., 3/F, 8 AKung Ngam Village Rd, Shaukeiwan, Hong Kong Phone: 852-2884-1374 or 2535-2446 Fax: 852-2513-8400 lpp@leo.com.hk www.leo.com.hk
| A wide array of casebound to novelty book manufacturing, including prepress and hand-assembly all in China in 2 huge plants, in Lanhai for complicated work and in Hisan for board books and simple hand assembly, with 8000 workers. Lots of work for Readers Digest, Tormont, Random House, etc., they handle all the manufacturing safety codes and requirements, as well as the strictest workers' rights. With 24 presses, they are one of the world's biggest and growing by double digits in each of the last two years. Johnny Fung MD (see Leo office in Seattle) | Man's Co. Contact: David Kwok, manager Flat D, 2/F, Sunview Ind Bldg, 3 On Yip St, Chaiwan, Hong Kong Phone: 852-2505-0558 Fax: 852-2896-3808 pcprint@hkstar.com
| Printing in Hong Kong and binding in China. | Midas Printing Ltd. Contact: Gloria Y.P.Kan, executive director 1/F, 100 Texaco Road, Tsuen Wan, Hong Kong Phone: 852-2408-0777, 2408-4029 Fax: 852-24065850 bgloria@midas.com.hk bangela@midas.com.hk
| Two plants in China, one for books the other for packaging printing, give this company a full range of services and a top rate team in Hong Kong overseeing the works. Angela Lee is overseas sales manager. See Martin Pugh in Midas office in Colorado. | Mission Productions Limited Contact: Ronald Tse, Unit B, 3/F, Lok's Industrial Bldg., 204 Tsat Tsz Mui Road, North Point, Hong Kong Phone: 852-2811-0026 Fax: 852-2811-0966 ronald@missionpro.com.hk welcome@missionpro.com.hk
| New company but an old timer in prepress services, seven Mac stations and a Crosfield scanner, they are gradually going toward CTP and meanwhile offer a very experienced crew for high-end requirements. Also Aubrey Wai. | NdeB Graphic Arts Consultancy Contact: Norman DeBrackinghe 12F, Block 32, Lower Baguio Villa, Victoria Rd., Pokfulam, Hong Kong Phone: 852-2813-1567 Fax: 852-2813-7092 deb@netvigator.com
| Former quality control guru at Mandarin, Norman has retired but still trouble-shoots all sorts of existing projects and is not looking for more work, but the expert for advice. | New Arts Graphic Reproduction Co. Ltd Contact: Paul S.K. Choy, managing director 4/F, Lok's Industrial Bldg., 204 Tsat Tse Mui Rd, North Point , Hong Kong Phone: 852-2564-1323 Fax: 852-2565-8262 newarts@writeme.com, andchoy@netvigator.com
| Color separation services, with three imagesetters including the Avantra 44S with press proofs in Hong Kong and China, also the Rainbow Imation Digital Proof. Andrew S.C. Choy is general manager (and son). See Karen Greatrex at United Color in New York. | New Island Printing Co Ltd. Contact: John Currie, director of business development New Island Printing Centre, 38 Wang Lee St., Yuen Long Ind. Estate, Yuen Long, NT, Hong Kong Phone: 852-2442 8282 or -8223 (direct) Fax: 852-2443-9882 jcurrie@newisland.com www.newisland.com
| A major supplier of book-plus, novelty and also a developer of a wide range of new materials, electronic and acetate compotents, with major plants both in China and Hong Kong. Karen Fung is group executive director of sales & marketing. | Newcon Ltd. Contact: Walter Lui, managing director Liven House, 1/F, 61-63 King Yip St, Kwun Tong, Kowloon, Hong Kong Phone: 852-2343-2308 Fax: 852- 2763-6128 info@newconlimited.com
| Develops and manufactures cloth, plastic, vinyl and plush materials from publishers' designs and supplies to printers for book-plus projects. David Lui is account executive (and son) | Nordica Printing Co. Ltd. Contact: Allan Wong, MD 16 Westlands Road, Block B, 3/F Melbourne Ind Bldg, Quarry Bay Hong Kong Phone: 852-2564-8444, 2565-9234 Fax: 852-2565-6445 or 2565-9270 nordica@netvigator.com, nordaprnt@aol.com
| Printing and hand assembly. Works directly and through brokers. China plant in Panyu for export work. | Palace Press Hong Kong Office Contact: Lesley Sun, production manager 10/F, Wah Ha Factory Bldg, 8 Shipyard Lane, Quarry Bay Hong Kong Phone: 852-2357-9019 Fax: 852-2561-3616 Lesley@palacepress.com www.palacepress.com
| Coordinates production services with the various Palace Press offices in the U.S. and Singapore. See various U.S. listings. | Paramount Printing Company Ltd. Contact: Alvis Loo, production director 3 Chun Kwong Street, Tseung Kwan O Industrial Estate, Junk Bay, Hong Kong Phone: 852-2896-8688 Fax: 852-2897-4890 paraprin@netvigator.com, jasonscc@netvigator.com www.paramount.com.hk
| Majority bought by NEXT Media Ltd. which use the webs for its local weekly magazines, with 12 sheetfed presses available for books and sister company, Rainbow, doing prepress. Peter Kok is COO. See Paramount office in New York. | Ph nix Offset Ltd Contact: Edmond Chan, managing director 2/F, Unit F1+2, Yeung Yiu Chung No 8 Ind Bldg, 20 Wang Hoi Rd, Kowloon Bay Hong Kong Phone: 852-2751-9962 Fax: 852-2755-8408, 2755-9204 phoffset@netvigator.com
| Born out of the ashes of Mandarin Offset (which was closed by Reed Elsevier in 1997), Ph nix now offers brokerage serves in much the same professional style, offering the full range of Hong Kong printing skills, from high quality coffee table books to boxed books and book plus. See Asia Pacific Offset in U.S., with Timothy Linn in New York, Andrew Clarke in DC and Rick Conant in SF | Pimlico Book International Contact: Herbert Law, marketing manager Unit 2010, 20/F Modern Warehouse, 6 Shing Yip St., KwunTong, Hong Kong Phone: 852 2342 4183 Fax: 852-2342 1627 herbert_law@pimlicobook.com.hk
| Serving U.S. customers with Hong Kong/PRC resources for packaging projects. See U.S. office in Baltimore. | Pioneer Printers Ltd.Contact: Michael Pak, business director 10B Khuan Ying Commercial Bldg., 85-89 Wellington St., Central Hong Kong Phone: 852-2815-0863 Fax: 852-2815-1400 pionprin@hkstar.com www.hkstar.com/pioneerprinters/
| A good example of a smaller, agile commercial and book printing operation in Hong Kong, with good connections elsewhere in Hong Kong and China for binding they dont do themselves. This one has a specialty add-on service of promotional mailings from Hong Kong. They also do color covers for jackets or inserts. | Power Color Scanning & Lithographics Co. Ltd. Contact: Tang Tak, managing director Workshop A, 2F, Sunrise Ind Bldg., 10 Hong Man Street, Chaiwan, Hong Kong Phone: 852-2557-0822 Fax: 852-2557-1998 powerc@hkstar.com
| Prepress services, mostly commercial and packaging work for local customers, this is a ten year old company, founded by a former technology teacher for Dainippon Screen. |
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Rainbow Graphic & Printing Company Contact: Willie C.H. Lim, general manager 8 Chun Ying St., 4/F, Tseung Kwan O Ind. Estate, Kowloon, Hong Kong Phone: 852-2752-3423 Fax: 852-2897-4890 willylim@netvigator.com, rgarts@netvigator.com www.paramount.com.hk
| Prepress and printing services for export, with Paramount Printing the sister company. See Paramount in NYC. | Regal Printing Ltd. Contact: Maurice Kwan, managing director Good Prospect Ind. Bldg., 1/F, Wong Chuk Hang Rd, Aberdeen, Hong Kong Phone: 852-2552-2202 Fax: 852-2552-0700 maurice@regalprinting.com.hk www.regalprinting.com.hk
| Hard- and softcover book printing, as well as other binding abilities in house with hand assembly operation in the PRC. | Regent Publishing Services Ltd. Contact: George T.Y. Tai, managing director 24/F Federal Centre, 77 Sheung On St. Chaiwan, Hong Kong Phone: 852-2897-7803 Fax: 852-2558-7209 regentps@regent-hk.com.hk, tchoy@regent-hk.com.hktinaw@regent-hk.com.hk
| High-quality print broker in Hong Kong and China. U.S. customers are 60% of the business with reps across the country. Some book-plus work and sourcing, as well as conventional work. Tina W.S. Wong, production & manufacturing manager. Five U.S. offices. | Sing Cheong Printing Company Ltd. Contact: Karen Shen Fishel, managing director G/F, 655 Kings Road, Hong Kong Phone: 852-2561-8801 Fax: 852-2565-9467 larry@singcheong.com.hk Karen@singcheong.com.hk
| Full-service printing, casebound and softcover, calendars, book-plus in China, but print in HK. A 36-year-old, family-owned company with U.S. guy on the scene in Hong Kong. 30% of market is U.S.. Larry Lazopoulos is sales director | Sing Kee Printing Factory Ltd. Contact: Franky Ip, director 3/F Yau Lee Centre, 45 Hoi Yuen Road, Kwun Tung, Kowloon, Hong Kong Phone: 852-2763-6633 Fax: 852-2763-6586 singkee@netvigator.com
| Printing and binding in China and some in Hong Kong. See Snow Lion Graphics in CA. | Sino Publishing House Ltd. Contact: Malcolm J. Lee, director 7/F, Asia Harvest Comm. Centre, 324 Shau Kei Wan Rd, Shau Kei Wan, Hong Kong Phone: 852-2884-9963 Fax: 852-2884-9321 sinophl@netvigator.com
| British book printing pro Malcolm Lee is in charge of this print brokerage. Working with Hong Kong, Singapore and Indonesia printing services, Lee says it is having his own people on the ground that keeps everything on schedule. See Keith McGinnis at KMI in Greenwich CT. | South China Printing Co. (1988) Ltd. Contact: Raymond Ching, general manager 6 Fl, Block B, Shatin Ind. Centre, 5-7 Yuen Shun Circuit, Shatin, Hong Kong Phone: 852-2637-3611;Fax: 852-2637 4221 ayuen@scpc.com.hk
| With a major four-color book printing plant in Hong Kong, with binding and a hand-assembly operations in China, and two sales offices in the U.S. Ivan Cheung is Senior Manager. See Peter D. Lawrence in New York and Moon-Chuen Lo in Temple City, CA. | South Sea International Press Ltd. Contact: P.Y. Lee, managing director 3/F, Yip Cheung Centre, 10 Fung Yip St., Chaiwan, Hong Kong Phone: 852-2897-1083 Fax: 852-2558-1473 ssiphk@pacific.net.hk
| D s all printing and binding in Hong Kong, soft and hardcover books and calendars, with contacts in China for hand work as needed. Franky Ho is general manager. | Steiner Graphics Ltd. Contact: Steiner K.W. Fung, director Unit 1, 2F, Eastern Centre, 1065 Kings Road, Quarry Bay, Hong Kong Phone: 852-2535-6886, mobile 9018-1853 Fax: 852-2535-9129 steinergraphics@yahoo.com
| New print brokerage service run by a veteran in Hong Kong printing and prepress. | Sun Fung Offset Binding Co. Ltd. Contact: Raymond Chau, executive director Room 801 -803, 8/F, Westlands Centre, 20 Westlands Road, Quarry Bay, Hong Kong Phone: 852-2561-8109 Fax: 852-2811-0638 sunfung@sunfung.com.hk www.sunfung.com.hk
| Works directly with U.S. customers, specializing in conventional book printing, binding, all in China plant, with a new 8-color Heidelberg installed last year. Hand assembly work also. | Sunny Printing (Hong Kong) Co. Ltd. Contact: Albert T.W. Chan, managing director Rm 1601, Chaiwan Ind City, Phase 1, 60 Wing Tai Road, Chaiwan, Hong Kong Phone: 852-2557-8663 Fax: 852-2889-8070 sales@sunnyprinting.com.hk www.sunnyprinting.com
| With its own plant in China with single-color printing and softcover binding, the majority of work done in Hong Kong, specializing in prepress and printing computer manuals. | Technoprint International Ltd. Contact: Simon Cheung, managing director 459-469 Castle Peak Road, Tsuen Wan, Hong Kong Phone: 852-2498-9511 Fax: 852-2498-0511 tecnophk@netvigator.com
| With 95% of their business overseas, this company specializing in odd bindings and book-plus projects requiring hand assembly, all done in Shenzhen plant. | Toppan Printing Co. (HK) Ltd. Contact: Megumi Sonoda, senior manager 1 Fuk Wang Street, Yuen Long Ind. Estate, Yuen Long, NT, Hong Kong Phone: 852-2561-0101 Fax: 852-2475-4321 mizuno@toppan.com.hk, jameslee@toppan.com.hk
| The PRC plant in Baoan was one of the first into China from Hong Kong to do conventional work and proved definitively you could get Hong Kong quality there. Film work is still in Hong Kong. About half the business is hand assembly with a wide range of reproduction skills beyond ink on paper. James Lee is managing director. See Toppan Printing America in New York and LA. | Twin Age Limited Contact: Li Suk Woon, manager Rm 1401, Chung Ying Bldg., 20-20A Connaught Rd West, Sheung Wan, Hong Kong Phone: 852-2868-3822 Fax: 852-2840-1701 twinage@netvigator.com
| Broker specializing in small projects. Skilled working with sister Hong Kong publishing company on book packaging and printing projects. Part of the Odyssey Books & Guides company in Hong Kong, with Magnus Bartlett, MD | Universal Colour Scanning Co., Ltd. Contact: Johnny Leung, sales director 14 Westlands Rd., Quarry Bay, 10/F Block B Aik San Factory Bldg, Hong Kong Phone: 852-2565-0311 Fax: 852-852-2565-7770 kinkl@netvigator.com, mw@netvigator.com
| A strong client list including the world's source book and fine arts publishers, doing prepress using all high-end computers and color scanning systems in Hong Kong and China now, with proofing, stripping and platemaking in PRC, 80% book work. Satelite transmission. Shenzhen/Zhuhai Factories for stripping and proofing, with high-end scanner and computers in Hong Kong. William Lau is sales director. | Wing King Tong Co. Ltd. Contact: Alex Yan, managing director 3/F Leader Ind. Centre, Phase 1, 200 Texaco Rd., Tsuen Wan, NT, Hong Kong Phone: 852-2407-3287 Fax: 852-2407-4130 books@wkt-group.com, jkuo@wkt-group.com
| The first company to have a printing operation in China, long before the free trade zone existed, this company built a brand new facility in Shenzhen in 1998, where they do both conventional and hand-assembly work. Still, they do some major printing in Hong Kong, including all the multiple language work on a 10-color press, the only one in Asia, installed last year. This added capacity gave them the busiest year in their long history. Jeremy Kuo is marketing director. | Winner Offset Printing Factory Ltd Contact: Adrian C.M. Watt, marketing manager (overseas) 8/F Derrick Ind Bldg, 49-51 Wong Chuk Hang Rd, Aberdeen, Hong Kong Phone: 852-2553-8207 Fax: 852-2873-0316 adrian@winnerpp.com.hk
| A packaging printer, they began working with book publishers four years ago, and specialize in all kinds of novelty and book-plus projects, with three factories and 3000 workers in China. Arthur C.W. Tang is director. | Wishing Printing Company Ltd Contact: Moby Lau, director & sales manager 1/F, 8 Shipyard Lane, Quarry Bay, Hong Kong; Phone: 852-2561-1880 Fax: 852-2565-8351 wishing@netvigator.com
| Included mainly as a calendar manufacturing source. Stephen Cheung is sales. |
India - Indonesia - Japan - Malaysia
INDIA
Ajanta Offset Contact: Indranil Mukherjee, Head, International Business Madani Hall, 1 Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg, New Delhi 110002 India Phone: 91-11-331-5341, mobile 91-9811080245 Fax: 91-11-3712692 kkvijay@vsnl.com, aopl@nda.vsnl.net.in
| Complete printing services. No U.S. rep but d s U.S. business. U.K. rep is Bobby Blackstock, bbassociates@talk21.com | Laser Words Contact: Bal Menon 4 and 5 Second Canal Crossroad, Ghandinagar, Madras 600020;Phone: 91-44-491-5416; Fax: 91-44-491-5277; bal@laserwords.com
| Wide variety of electronic services including e-commerce, at competitive rates. See New York office. |
INDONESIA
PT Ikrar Mandiriabadi Offset Printing & Promotion Contact: Hanggoro Santosa, director Jl H. Sulaiman, No 12, Petukangan Utara, Kebayoran Lama, Jakarta 12260 Indonesia Phone: 62-21-735-4568 Fax: 62-21-736-3929 imaprint@rad.net.id
| An export printer with good communication skills and the advantages of Indonesian prices, including computer composition through to a variety of soft and hardcover bindings. Shipping may take a little longer than Hong Kong or Singapore, however. |
JAPAN
Dai Nippon Printing Co. Ltd. Contact: Ryuichi Nishide, manager, international publications 1-1-1 Ichigaya-Kagacho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 162-8001 Japan Phone: 81-3-3266-6924 Fax: 81-3-3235-4279 kaoru-n@po.iijnet.or.jp, Nishide-R@mail.dnp.co.jp
| High-quality book printing, mostly coproductions, in Japan. See also DNP in Hong Kong, Tien Wah in Singapore and DNP offices in the U.S. | Toppan Printing Company Contact: Yukio Takeshige, GM, international operations, publications division 1-11-1 Shimura Itabashi-ku, Tokyo 174-8558 Japan Phone: 81-3-3968-5390 Fax: 81-3-3558-3004 Yukio.Takeshige@toppan.co.jp
| High-quality book printing, mostly coproductions, in Japan. Also see Hong Kong operation and U.S. offices. |
MALAYSIA
Color Gallery Sdn Bhd Contact: Connie Then, managing director 14A Jalan Brunei Barat, off Jalan Pudu, Kuala Lumpur 55100 Malaysia; Phone: 60-3-245-3228; Fax: 603-245-8373; ctcolor@tm.net.my www.colorgallery.com.my
| High-quality repro and printing services. Also see Karen Tee, executive director, and Wendy Heng, marketing manager. | Times Offset, Malaysia Contact: Hassan Bakar, v-p & general manager Bangunan Times Publishing, Lot 46, Subang Hi-Tech Industrial Park, Batu-Tiga, Shah Alam, Selangor Darul Ehsan 40000 Malaysia Phone: 603-735-1511; Fax: 603-735-1553; tosb@po.jaring.my
| Major hard- and softcover printing operation run by Singapore firm. Chandriga Raman is marketing manager. See Suresh Kumar in Tarrytown, NY, print sales office of Marshall Cavendish. |
Singapore - South Korea - Taiwan - Thailand
SINGAPORE
AAP Printing Pte Ltd, Contact: Kok Weng Chin, sales and marketing director 118 Pioneer Road 639598 Singapore Phone: 65-861-6633; Fax: 65-862-0123 wengchin@app.com.sgandy@evergreenideas.com
| Now owned by Asia Pulp & Paper, a NYSE listed company founded in Indonesia and headquartered in Singapore. Services from papermaking through book printing. A new plant in Surubaya with 30 new Heidelberg & Roland sheetfed presses and full binding facilities gives ample export capacity. Jamie Wong is sales service executive. Andy Hyde is director of new business development in Nashville, TN, at Evergreen Ideas Inc. | C.O.S. Printers Pte Ltd. Contact: Jerome Ang, marketing dir., 9 Kian Teck Crescent, Jurong 628875 Singapore Phone: 65- 265-9022; Fax: 65-265-9074; cosprint@singnet.com.sg; www.cosprinters.com
| D s full color printing services for export, both through brokers and directly. | Chroma Graphics (Overseas) Pte Ltd. Contact: Thomas K.P. Chan, managing director Blk 12 Lorong Bakar Batu, #05-08/10 348745 Singapore Phone: 65- 742-3706 Fax: 65-748-6712 or 748-4097 chroma@pacific.net.sg
| D s color separation work for export, from children's to trade and reference. Digital imaging and CTP. | Colourscan Co Pte Ltd. Contact: Johnny Tsao, managing director 53 Ubi Avenue 3 408863 Singapore Phone: 65- 253-8888 Fax: 65-749-7651 col scan3@singnet.com.sg
| The largest front-end color supplier in Asia, d s all descriptions of prepress, plus sheetfed printing. Also contact Joseph Ong or Jimmy Tsao or U.S. office. See Separacolor International, Carson, CA. | Craft Print International Ltd. Contact: Charlie Chan, managing director 9 Joo Koon Circle, Jurong 629041 Singapore Phone: 65- 861-4040 Fax: 65-861-0530 craftprt@singnet.com.sg, craft@singnet.com.sg www.craftprint.com | Technology and high quality are the strengths here, in both prepress and printing. With a new eight-color press, its own case-binding line and a front-end CTP system, Craft has pushed the envelope in printing quality for decades. Desmond Chan is marketing manager. U.S. office in Chico, CA, at Mach1. | CS Graphics, Pte Ltd. Contact: Lee Sian Tee, managing director 10 Tuas Avenue 20 638822 Singapore; Phone: 65- 861-0100; Fax: 65-861-0190; csgpl@singnet.com.sg | With the strength of their own office in the Bay Area, CS focuses on high-quality work for the U.S., including direct-to-plate. Margaret Leong is admin. manager; Pamela Ang, customer service. Rick Marment runs Granite Bay, CA, office. | Dominie Press Pte. Ltd. Contact: J Yip, sales Blk 1200 Depot Road, #01-21/27, Telok Blangah Ind. Est 109675 Singapore; Phone: 65-273 0755; Fax: 65 273 0060; sales@dominie.com.sg | Owned for 20 years by Oh Teng Hin, who trained at Tien Wah, this company specializes in book printing. | Eurasia Press Pte Ltd. Contact: Allan Fong, executive director 10/14 Kampong Ampat oof MacPherson Road 368320 Singapore; Phone: 65- 2805522 Fax: 65-2800593; eurasia@mbox3.singnet.com.sg | Consistent winner in Gold Ink awards; now g s direct to U.S. customers, with stochastic printing and other high-end services. W0rks with Perdama Grafik Scanning in Malaysia, John Sum, MD. See Kay Lau & Assoc. in LA and Jonathan Yuen in NYC office. | Insight Print Services (Pte) Ltd. Contact: Victor Quek, general manager 38 Joo Koon Road 628990 Singapore Phone: 65- 865-1600, 865-1608 (direct) Fax: 65-861-6438 apasin@singnet.com.sg
| Prints APA Publications' Insight Guides for international distribution with a growing list of outside customers wanting similar quality. | Kyodo Printing Co. (Singapore) Pte Ltd. Contact: C.S. Chong, business manager 112 Neythal Road, Jurong Town 628599 Singapore; Phone: 65-265-2955; Fax: 65-264-4939 chongkps@mbox4.singnet.com.sg
| The only plant outside of Japan of this 100-year-old Japanese printing operation. Sheetfed Komori and Heidelberg presses and both perfect and case binding. D s all export, mostly to the U.K. but with a growing list of U.S. customers and strong textbook services. | Palace Press Singapore Contact: Lesley Sun, production manager 239C Joo Chiat Road 427496 Singapore Phone: 65- 342-3117; Fax: 65-342-3115; ppispore@palacepress.com www.palacepress.com
| Print brokerage with five U.S. offices and Asia headquarters in Hong Kong. | Pica Colour Separation Overseas Pte Ltd. Contact: Dosmond Chew, Customer service manager; 55 Ayer Rajah Crescent, #04-11 139949 Singapore; Phone: 65- 776-1311; Fax: 65-779-3055; picaosea@singnet.com.sg www.picaosea.com.sg | Two prepress plants, in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur. Works with printers for prepress and into CTP workflow. | SNP Printing Contact: Patrick Chung, marketing mgr. 97 Ubi Avenue 4 (near airport) 408754 Singapore; Phone: 65- 741-2500; Fax: 65-743-9661; patchung@snp.com.sg, edwintan@snp.com.sg; www.printing.snp.com.sg
| With most of its conventional manufacturing now in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and hand assembly in Thailand, SNP offers everything from prepress to unique binding. Edwin Tan is business manager. | Stamford Press Pte Ltd. Contact: R. Theyvendran, chairman & MD Stamford Press Center, 209 Kallang Bahru 339344 Singapore; Phone: 65- 294-7227; Fax: 65-294-4396 or 294-3319; md@stamford.com.sg, balu@stamford.com.sg; www.stamford.com.sg | D s some export work to the U.S. and Europe. Offers total solutions, using electronic data for a wide range of products beginning but certainly not ending with paper. Includes "instant" book production, with ISO 14001 Certificate and a new joint-venture plant in Sri Lanka. Mr V. Balu handles sales. | Tech Wah Printing and Packaging Pte Ltd. Contact: James Chua, general manager 25 Pandan Crescent, TIC Tech Center 128477 Singapore; Phone: 65- 872-8181; Fax: 65-872-8229; jquek@teckwah.com.sg, james@techwah.com.sg; www.teckwah.com.sg | Packaging, CD and conventional printing services available, including digital prepress and on-demand digital documentation services, with plants in Malaysia, China, Indonesia, Korea, Thailand and Taiwan. John Quek is sales manager. | Tien Wah Press Contact: Ms. Chiu Leng Campos-Chia, director, marketing & corporate development 4 Pandan Crescent 128475 Singapore; Phone: 65- 466-6222; Fax: 65-469-3894; camposchia@twpsin.com, erickoh@twpsin.com, bernardwee@twpsin.com | A major player in both conventional and novelty book manufacturing, one of the originators of pop-up assembly services in Asia, with enormous capacity and hand assemply plants in Malaysia and Indonesia. Part of the Dai Nippon group. Eric Koh & Bernard Wee, general sales service managers. See Kathy Kueneman and Lois Turel, TWP America Inc., New York and Berkeley. | Times Printers (S) Pte Ltd.(Print division of the Times Publishing Group, Singapore); Contact: Mr. Ronald Pereira, v-p, international marketing & special projects; 16 Tuas Avenue 5, 639340 Singapore; Phone: 65-862-3333; Fax: 65-862-1313 tplmgrp@corp.tpl.com.sg; www.tpl.com.sg
| Leading commercial web offset printer with book printing operations in Malaysia and sales offices in Tarrytown, NY, through subsidiary Marshall Cavendish. | Universal Graphics Pte Ltd. Contact: Frankie Tan, marketing & sales director Block 171 Kallang Way, Kolam Ayer Ind. Estate#03-05 349250 Singapore Phone: 65- 747-7521 Fax: 65-749-4754 uniemily@pacific.net.sg
| With two plants in Singapore and Malaysia, this prepress house offers digital file preparation for CTP, direct digital proofs, four-color separation in up to 16 page layouts, and other services. Works direct with U.S. customers and welcomes agents. Emily Tan, sales services manager for exports. |
SOUTH KOREA
Daehan Printing & Publishing Co. Ltd. Contact: Tony Kim, trade dept. 344-12 Sangdaewon-Dong, Jungwon-ku, Sungnam-City, Kyungkee-do South Korea Phone: 82-342-730-3830 Fax: 82-342-735-8104 vividcolor@myhost.com
| A strong export printer in South Korea serving the U.S. market via office in New Jersey. | Dong-A Publishing & Printing Co. Ltd. Contact: Jay-Hun Koo, manager, export team 295-15, Doksan-Dong, Kumchun-ku, Seoul 153-600 South Korea Phone: 82-2-866-8800 ext 276 Fax: 82-2-866-0127
| This major Korean printer has an export team with U.S. experience and produces in a variety of formats, from note cards to casebound books, and strives to be competitive in every range, and is well known for calendar work. Also Hak S. Kim. Codra is U.S. rep. | Sung In Printing Co. Ltd. Contact: Joon Ho Suh, president 242-2 Dang Jung Dong Kunpo-Si, Kyung-gi Do South Korea Phone: 82-343-429-0256 Fax: 82-343-452-7519 h2o@sungin.com, john@sungin.com www.sungin.com
| The largest export printer in South Korea, with offices on both coasts. Also d s hand assembly work. See offices on East and West Coasts. |
TAIWAN
Hsing Tai Printing Co. www.tigax.com.tw
| See U.S. office for contact information. | Shen's Art Printing Co. Ltd. Contact: Ricky Chung, overseas department coordinator No. 7, Lane 365, Sec. 1, Chung-Yung Road, To-Chen, Taipei Hsien Taiwan Phone: 886-2-2270-6161 ext 235 or mobile 886-931-066574; Fax: 866-2-2270-6110 ricky@shen.com.tw
| Complete book printing services, this is the largest printer in Taiwan, owned by the country's largest paper manufacture. See IPEX in Seattle |
THAILAND
SNP-Sirivatana Contact: Tan Jin Yan, managing director 76/76 Char n Krung 57, Sathorn, Bangkok 10120 Thailand Phone: 62-2-675-8772 Fax: 66-2-675-8770 jinyan@snpsirivtn.th.com, alicetan@snpsirivtn.th.com
| One of the two large and established hand assembly and popup operations in Thailand, part of the SNP Corporation in Singapore, held 49% by Singapore Technologies. Alice Tan is Customer Service Rep. See SNP-Sirivitana U.S. | Starprint Company Ltd. Contact: Prinya Taithongchai, deputy managing director and marketing director 144/1 Moo 17, Bangna-Trad Rd, T. Bangsaothong, King A Bangsaothong., Samutprakarn 10540 Thailand Phone: 66-2-705-1450, 315-1611 Fax: 66 2-315-1010 prinya@ksc.th.com
| Packaging and educational children's titles, with two large factories, first-class facilities and ISO 9001 certification. Capacity for three million books a month. |
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