Identification of Various Causes of Printing Substrate Wastage in Newspaper Organization

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Sunil Sharma and Parmod (Printer, Lok Sabha Secretariat Parliament of India and Department of Printing Technology, S.I.T.M, Rewari, Haryana)

In printing industry substrate wastage is becoming sensitive issue day by day. So it is evitable and need of the hour to identify such factors to overcome this issue during production. Waste may be defined as something lying unproductive or desolate. Minimization of the waste has always been a crucial issue for the news print industries. Newspaper industry generates substrate waste rather than other forms i.e. liquid waste, hazardous waste. Hence waste reduction is life blood for the growth as well as development of printing houses which cannot be underestimated. For running any organization it must reduce wastes including hazardous wastes. But the wastage occurred at any stage of production is major hindrance causing reducing quality and consuming more time resulting wastage. The key objective of present study is to identify various causes which results in wastage generation.