A VISIT TO THOMSON PRESS
As
part of our study programme the MJ students of Niscort visited the ThomsonPress at Faridabad, NCR-Delhi on March 28, 2012. Started in 1967, as the press
for the Living Media publications (India Today being its flagship fortnightly),
it has four branches in New Delhi and one in Chennai and it is the largest
commercial printer and allied services company in the Indian sub continent with
multi colour web and sheet fed printing. 
Thomson Press employs
state-of-the-art equipment and highly skilled technicians. Some of them are
graduates from Thomson School of Printing, with a three-year course in printing
technology. Apart from printing the Living Media publications, it also has many
Indian and foreign clients who contact online and keep track of the progress of
the work. Thomson Press prides itself in creating customized solutions for
clients over a long term by allocating permanent resources for them. The
company offers a range of printing services covering sheet fed and web offset
printing, automated binding, finishing and distribution management – all under
one roof. The unique one stop shop structure and meticulous attention to detail
and quality has made it the Press of choice. We, the eleven MJ students along with Fr. Devassy, our Dean were greeted at the entrance and were escorted by Mr. Shakeel Ahmed, the printing engineer to the Training Department. The HoD, after giving a brief introduction directed Mr. Ahmed to take us around each and every department of the Printing Press to familiarise ourselves with the printing technology. First we were shown the sheet fed printing, the computer to print aluminium plates, the folding, binding (thread and glue) and trimming process. Then we saw the web-fed printing, where everything took place automated. And finally we were shown, the quality control department and how the stock was kept ready for dispatch. It was indeed a learning experience, where the press functioned with the state of the art technology.
The most interesting was the 35-Km-long bike ride from Noida to Faridabad via. Kalindi Kunj and Badarpur Border along with Anand Kumar. It was tiresome in the hot and dusty weather and so had to cool it with a mixed fruit juice at our regular juice corner at Sector 12, Noida.
