Print Production & Graphic Art Print Production & Graphic Art N ISCAIR has, over the years, made a name for itself by undertaking designing and printing of high-quality S&T literature with mass appeal. It has a state-of-the-art Graphic Art & Print Production Division that has acquired a vast paraphernalia of pre- and post-press facilities and expertise. The Division comprises of the following Sections: • Production • Art & Graphic • DTP • Printing & Binding The Division undertakes publication of all NISCAIR’s in-house publications, comprising Research Journals, Books, Encyclopedias, Reports, Newsletters, Popular Science Magazines, etc., and also publications from CSIR Headquarters, CSIR Laboratories/Institutions and other Government departments, comprising their Annual Reports, Newsletters, Bulletins, Journals, Posters, Brochures, Pamphlets, etc. The planning and execution of the above S&T publications, their initial costing, copy editing, formatting, designing, printing, binding, etc. are all undertaken by the Division. The Division also takesup urgent printing jobs from CSIR Headquarters and CSIR Laboratories. The personnel of the Division also deliver lectures and impart training on various aspects of DTP, designing, production and printing to the students of ‘Science Communication’, trainees from SAARC countries, and to students of ‘Printing 9 Technology’ from various Government Universities/ Institutes. Production Section The Production Section deals with complete planning and execution of all in-house and outside publications. It involves understanding the technical aspects of the job, suggesting suitable size for the publication, number of colour, type of paper to be used, and tentative estimate. High print-quality error-free timely publication has been the nodal area of concern of this department. This section has been handling all types of printing jobs like research journals, magazines, folders, brochures, annual reports, invitation cards, posters, etc. Proof reading, pre-press, post-press supervision and daily liaison with outside vendors are the other regulary features of this department. It also arranges for the procurement of annual paper in NISCAIR for smooth and timely publication of jobs. Follow-up of payments and its reconciliation is also done by this Division. The payments received add substantially to the ECF of NISCAIR. Art & Graphic Section Art & Graphic is a pre-press activity of CSIR-NISCAIR that gives shape and colour to the designing jobs meant to be printed. The activity takes care of all the creative graphic designing jobs of the publication published or printed by NISCAIR. The numerous jobs also include the specialised designing job of CSIR-NISCAIR Biennial Report 2014-16 63 Print Production & Graphic Art Few Selected Outside Jobs Undertaken during the Period 2014-16 GOVERNMENT JOBS Sl.No.Job TitleName of the Client 1. 2. Indian Pharmacopoeia 2014 and Indian Pharmacopoeia Commission (IPC) Addendum 2015 with DVDs Ghaziabad National Formulary of India 2016 Indian Pharmacopoeia Commission (IPC) Ghaziabad 3. Southern Ocean Expedition NCAOR, Goa Technical Reports 4. Jal Chetna - (Hindi) half yearly magazine National Institute of Hydrology (NIH), Roorkee 5. Consulting Ahead - Half yearly Journal Consultancy Development Centre (CDC), New Delhi 6. DST Project Posters (10 nos) Vigyan Prasar, New Delhi 7. DSIR Annual Reports (English & Hindi) 2014-15 Department of Scientific & Industrial Research and 2015-16 (DSIR), New Delhi 8. CDC Annual Reports (Bilingual) Consultancy Development Centre (CDC), New Delhi 9. IPRS Poster on Report of Adverse Effects Indian Pharmacopoeia Commission, Ghaziabad 10. PvPI Newsletter vol. 4, Issue 10, 2015 Indian Pharmacopoeia Commission, Ghaziabad 11. MAUSAM - Quarterly Journal India Meteorological Department, New Delhi prestigious popular science monthly magazines namely ‘Science Reporter’ and ‘Vigyan Pragati’. Besides in-house designing jobs, Graphic team also executes various graphic designing jobs contracted to the institute by other organisations. Each job is handled and designed keeping in view the target audience. The Section is well equipped with Highend PCs, etc. Latest versions of graphic-designing computer applications, viz. Photoshop, CorelDraw, InDesign, etc. are used as designing tools. 64 CSIR-NISCAIR Biennial Report 2014-16 Approximately 40,000 visuals were made by the Art & Graphic team during the year 2014-16 in the form of cover design of Books/Magazines/Report, Jackets; Invitation Cards/Folders/Brochures/ Leaflet designs; Style sheet Designs; Creative specialized layout designs for Magazines, Newsletters and Annual Reports; Posters/Banners designs; numerous kinds of creative graphics, scientific illustrations, charts; and editing & improvement of pictures/ illustrations. Print Production & Graphic Art Few selected CSIR HQ and CSIR Laboratories Jobs done during 2014-16 Sl. No.Job TitleName of the Client 1. CSIR Innovation Award for School Children Certificates CSIR Hq, New Delhi 2. CSIR-YSA Brochure for School Children CSIR-HRDG, New Delhi 3. SSB Function 2014 Invitation Cards and Envelopes CSIR-HRDG, New Delhi 4. CSIR-UGC (NET) Exam Functionary Cards CSIR-HRDG, New Delhi 5. CSIR-UGC (NET) Examination - Instructions to Invigilators CSIR-HRDG, New Delhi Booklet 6. CSIR-CEERI Quarterly Newsletter CSIR-CEERI, Pilani 7. CSIR-CBRI-Annual Reports in English and Hindi CBRI, Roorkee 8. World Metrology day and National Technology Day CSIR-NPL, New Delhi i) Invitation cards, ii) Abstract and iii) Posters 9. CLRI Biennial ReportCSIR-CLRI, Chennai 10. Quality Policy Poster - RAB CSIR-RAB, New Delhi 11. Foundation Day 2014 Invitation Cards with Envelopes CSIR-HRDG, New Delhi 12. Samman Patra (NISTADS) CSIR-NISTADS, New Delhi 13. Instructions to Invigilators Booklet CSIR-HRDG, New Delhi 14. CSIR-NPL Annual ReportCSIR-NPL, New Delhi 15. Pension Payment Order Booklets: CSIR-HRDG, New Delhi i) Pensioner’s and ii) Disburser’s Portions 16. SSB Prize for Science and Technology 2015 CSIR-HRDG, New Delhi Regulations & Proforma 17. NISTADS Biennial Report (Bilingual) CSIR-NISTADS, New Delhi 18. G N Ramachandran Gold Medal for Excellence in CSIR-HRDG, New Delhi Biological Science & Technology 2015 19. CSIR-CEERI Annual ReportCSIR-CEERI, Pilani Desk Top Publishing (DTP) Section DTP is an important pre-press activity for bringing out In-house and Outside Publications comprising NISCAIR Research Journals, Popular Science Books, Proceedings, Annual Reports, Bulletins, Newsletters, etc. The work involves page layout formatting, of B/w, 2-colour and 4-colour jobs, scanning of illustrations/photographs, colour correction etc. The DTP unit is equipped with the latest computers and software like MS Office, PageMaker, Photoshop, In-Design, Hindi software Saransh etc. which are used in page formatting work. The pages of the journals and other publications are formatted as per the required house style and standard guidelines or style sheet designed and provided by Graphic Section. These publications contain a number of Graphics, Illustrations, halftones, drawings, etc. which are incorporated into the laidout pages and the single piece output taken through Imagesetter on film or plate for printing. CSIR-NISCAIR Biennial Report 2014-16 65 Print Production & Graphic Art Selected In-house Jobs Accomplished during the Year 2014-16 Designing, Formatting and Printing NISCAIR Research periodicals: Cover design, graphics/technical illustrations, formatting and printing of approximately 300 issues of 21 NISCAIR Research periodicals printed during 2014-16. Newsletters: Designing, formatting and Printing of CSIR News and CSIR Samachar monthly newsletters. Magazines: Visualizing and designing with creative specialized layout of the two popular science magazines Science Reporter (monthly) and Vigyan Pragati (monthly). Cover design, graphics and printing of popular science Urdu magazine (quarterly), Science ki Duniya. Annual Report: Designing, formatting and printing of NISCAIR’s “Triennial Report 2010-13” and “Annual Report 2013-14”. Rajbhasha Magazine: Designing, formatting and printing of Hindi Rajbhasha Magazine “Sanchetna 2014” and “Sanchetna 2015”. Book: Cover, style sheet, graphics and printing of book entitled “Collagen Biosynthesis, Structure and Applications in Biomedicine”, published by CSIR-NISCAIR. Brochure: Cover, designing and printing of the report of “CSIR-NISCAIR Workshop for Training Journalists in S&T Reporting” (catalysed & supported by NCSTC, DST). Reprinting: Order for reprinting of 71 books published by CSIR-NISCAIR was received from the Haryana Government. Involved scanning & digitisation, cover designing, and printing. Job handled by Print Production during 2014-15 Job handled by Print Production during 2015-16 Number Revenue Received (`) Jobs Number Revenue Received (`) NISCAIR* 17 Nil NISCAIR* 17 34,500 (Vaccin Project) CSIR/CSIR Labs 21 20,21,550 CSIR/CSIR Labs 23 15,43,575 Government 17 68,27,500 Government 13 64,54,000 Total 55 88,49,050 Total 53 80,32,075 Jobs *Regular publications published by NISCAIR are not included in the above. During the period from 2014-16 more than 30,000 pages (B&W and Colour) were formatted and processed by this Section, providing major inputs to the Printing Unit. Printing Section The printing section takes care of all printing assignments/jobs through the offset printing process. There are three single-colour and three double-colour sheet-fed offset printing machines. To further improve the quality of print production and productivity, under the modernization plan a new four-colour sheet fed offset printing machine (CPC Komori LS-429, made in Japan) was procured and installed which is capable of producing 16,000 sheets per hour in size 20”x29” which means 64000 66 CSIR-NISCAIR Biennial Report 2014-16 impressions per hour. The quality and productivity of NISCAIR colour printing have increased manifold since the new four colour sheet fed offset printing machine became operational. The section also has a plate-making unit with Auto plate processor and a binding unit. The output of printing section is around 30,000 pages per annum including 10,000 colour pages which resulted into approximate one million impressions during the period. The section provides excellent print quality to the institute as well as to the other government agencies jobs. The Institute has also Acquired Computerto-Plate (CTP) technology, which will replace the existing plate-making system and will eliminate the step of making DTP pages on film which is being outsourced presently. The cost involved in the Print Production & Graphic Art Training imparted to Students Areas coveredYearDuration InstituteNo. of Students 2014-15 Graphic Designing, 4/6 weeks Pusa Polytechnic 6 DTP, Production Guru Jambeshwar University 1 aspects, Imposition, of Science & Technology Plate making, Kurukshetra University1 Sheet fed offset Printing 2015-16 4/6 weeks Pusa Polytechnic8 Techniques and Binding & Finishing. Guru Jambeshwar University 4 of Science & Technology outsourcing of the film is approximately ` 40 lakhs per annum, which will now be an annual saving. The capital expenditure on the CTP will be recovered within a period of one and a half years. Human Resource Development 1. Three days hands-on training in graphic designing applications such as (i) CorelDraw, (ii) PageMaker, and (iii) Photoshop was provided to trainees from SAARC countries under a monthlong training programme on “Office Automation” organized twice by CSIR-NISCAIR during 2014-2016. 2. CSIR-NISCAIR also imparts training to the students of ‘Printing Technology’ of the Guru Jambeshwar University of Science and Technology (Hisar), Kurukshetra University (Kurukshetra) and Pusa Polytechnic (New Delhi). The training is industryoriented whereby the students are given hands-on training in graphic designing and printing techniques that includes Graphic Designing, DTP, Production aspects, Imposition, Plate making, Sheet fed offset Printing Techniques and Binding & Finishing. During the period 2014-15, eight students and in the year of 2015-16, twelve students were provided training. CSIR-NISCAIR Biennial Report 2014-16 67