A Trip
To The HT Press
More than a Mass Media field trip, it should be called a
general science field trip because i could connect to a lot of science which is
involved in printing those heaps of paper. As we all 1st entered we
were served with tea and biscuits because they seemed to notice that we came to
their press after a tiring school hours, that was really sweet of them. After the
short interval we headed to see the roots of printing a newspaper. The person
who was presenting all the information to us was Mr.Amit Patra , he told us
that the paper in which the news is printed are all imported from countries
like Russia,Indonesia,Canada and that these papers are not eco-friendly and
these countries are slowly abandoning it to save trees! A good step indeed. The
paper roll is of some 100+ kgs and to move it from one place to another they’ve
made special tracks so that everyone there are safe, there are even specialized
machines to pick those paper rolls. The 2nd level of the press does
the printing work and all of us could see the top level of the press from which
the final print of the paper comes from. They also showed us the CTP room i.e
the computer to plate room, in this the 4 primary colours Cyan,Magenta,Yellow,Black are printed on 4
different metal plates for the same page of the newspaper which is later merged
and we get the colourful images in the newspaper, quite interesting to know. There
is a separate room where a 1000kg ink box of these 4 colours are stored and
used, just like water ink flows from those pipes. Mr.Amit also mentioned that
when printing is done on the top floor , the noise of machine is so loud that a
person can go deaf easily and that’s why all of them have been provided special
devices so that no one turns deaf there. After seeing all the machinery we
waited to see the printing to be done, which usually happens in the evening, so
after a hour long wait we finally were able to see how the paper prints and
then distributed, the machine printing speed is about 85,000 papers per hour,
quite a huge no. it is. The printing press had different signs put all over the
walls and windows regarding Safety and Hazardous things because there were a
lot of things which can be harmful. When they were discussing about printing ,
he said, “you’ll play holi once in a year, and we play holi everyday!” as they deal
with those 4 colours everyday and get coloured with them!
Overall it was a wonderful experience in the HT press, we
got to know so many unknown facts about how a paper comes to our home... its
main roots.
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