The students of BDes 3rd year (Communication Design and Interaction Design) visited Dainik Bhaskar Printing Press at midnight on 28th June 2023 with Kaustubh Kirtane, Assistant Professor at the School of Design.

The students closely monitored and learned the complete process of newspaper printing which involved

• imposition of pages for optimum use of paper
• making color-separated CTP Plates and their developing process
• mounting the plates onto the massive assembly of machines
• mounting 400 kg paper rolls and passing them through the towers of machines
• adjusting paper rolls and ink flow on the go
• continuous checking of printed newspapers to make finer adjustments

The workers at the Press have developed sign language to enable them to communicate in a noisy environment despite all the running around happening when 40,000 copies of 16-page newspapers are printed per hour.

The students learned the worker's sign language by observing them at work.