Wastage Minimization of Printing Substrate in Newspaper Organization

Pages:47-49
Ambrish Pandey and Sabharwal Sandeep (Department of Printing Technology, GJUS&T, Hisar)

The waste control in the printing industry is very essential. Observation shows that waste created in printing houses was enormous-a lot of papers, inks, darkroom chemicals, films, and plates. Generally paper (News Print) cost is 67% of the whole cost of newspaper. The practice has become a normal trend for the employees and management of these printing houses, without realizing the effect waste poses on the customers, the company, the environment, as a whole. The quantity of waste created affects the production cost, and its disposal poses a threat to the environment. The disposal of printing waste doesn’t cost printing houses financially. With the present case study of Daink Bhaskar press, Hisar, it is found that the standard wastage percentage in any newspaper industry can be reduced considerably upto level of 4.5 %.