Empowering Thoughts: PRESS VISIT : a report.

“Just the knowledge of thesis is not sufficient until and unless any practical or visual experience is provided to the students”. According to this particular averment, the students of BAMS 1^st semester centre of media studies, IPS, University of Allahabad were taken to an educational visit to “Hindustan press” on Saturday 26^th November 2011.

In the entire session of the visit, all the novices were told about all the technicalities and procedures of printing a newspaper by Umesh Dhuliya, which included the origin of machine that was done by Manu graph, the newspapers get printed at a speed of 45000 copies/hour, its capacity is of 20pages (14 colored, 6 black & white), it works on the technique of offset.

The students learned about the maneuver of colors in printing process, process of mounting aluminum plate cylinder of the machine, image transformation through blanket cylinder, printing on sheets of papers, cutting of paper roll through cutter machine and then finally folding of papers and formation.

The students also came to know about a very interesting CTP process that is “computer to plate” process. Here they were told that firstly the confirmed layout is send to them by editor through computer linkups then by new laser technology it is transferred to the aluminum plates and after the processing of 4-5minutes it is exposed and send to the developer. This whole process is done in a dim yellow light as it is safe for aluminum plates.

The plenary visit to Hindustan press was full of enthusiasm, information and ideas for the novices. They all were very contended to know the glut of things regarding the printing world over here and also looking forward to more and more of these trips.

The visit was successfully executed under the supervision of CC of the Centre Mr. Dhananjai Chopra and Faculty member Mr. Sachin Mehrotra.