Graphic Art & Print Production

Graphic Art & Print Production

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NISCAIR’s state-of-the-art Graphic Art & Print Production Division plays a

major role in fulfilling NISCAIR’s mandate of publishing high-quality S&T literature with mass appeal. The Division has acquired vast paraphernalia of pre- and post-press facilities and expertise in the field of print production. The Division comprises of the following Sections:• Production• GraphicArt&Photography• DTP• ComputerFacility• Printing&Binding


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The Division undertakes publication of all NISCAIR’s in-house publications, comprising Research Journals, Books, Encyclopedias, Reports, Newsletters and 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, the copy editing, formatting, designing, printing, binding, etc. are all undertaken by the Division. The Division also takes-up urgent printing jobs from CSIR Headquarters and CSIR Laboratories.

• CSIRHeadquarter• CBRI,Roorkee• NPL,NewDelhi• CEERI,Pilani• CSIO,Chandigarh• NISTADS,NewDelhi• IIP,Dehradun• HRDC,Ghaziabad

• ExaminationUnit,CSIRComplex• IPMD,NewDelhi• HRDG,NewDelhi• IPCommission,Ghaziabad• IndiaMeteorologicalDepartment,

NewDelhi• NationalCentreforAntarctic&

OceanResearch(NCAOR),Goa

• DelhiPublicLibrary• DepartmentofScientificand

IndustrialResearch,DST,NewDelhi• ConsultancyDevelopmentCentre,

NewDelhi• SAARCDocumentationCentre,

NewDelhi• ZaheerScienceFoundation,Delhi

The major clients of the Division during 2010-2013:

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The personnel of the Division also deliver lectures and impart training on various aspects of DTP, designing, production, printing to the students of Associateship in Information Science (AIS), students of ‘Science Communication’, students from SAARC countries, and to students of ‘Printing Technology’ from the Pusa Polytechnic, New Delhi.

PRODUCTIONSECTIONProduction Section oversees the planning and production of all in-house and external publications undertaken for printing by NISCAIR. All publications, starting from black & white single-leaf flier to multicolor 1000-page children encyclopedia, are handled by this section.

Total in-house and outside jobs handled during the period 2010-13 by the Production Section

Publications YearYearYear 2010-11 2011-12 2012-13

Allin-housejobs 241 256 262

Alloutsidejobsreceivedfrom59 69 63CSIRHq,CSIRLabsandotherGovtdeptts

Planning and initial costing for outsidepublicationsDuring the period 2010-13, the Production Section undertook a number of prestigious publications of outside clients which were highly appreciated. To name a few: Indian Pharmacopoeia 2010 of I P Commission, Govt of India, (having approx. 3000 pages printed in three volumes); CSIR-INDIA Science & Innovation for Transforming India of CSIR Hq.; Bhartiya Antarctic Sambhaar Tantra of National Centre for Antarctic & Ocean Research (NCAOR), Goa.

To undertake external publications, Production Section first plans regarding size,

printing paper, binding, mode of printing, etc., depending upon the content, readership and budget of the publication. The tentative cost is prepared which is then sent to the clients for approval. An Activity Schedule is also prepared by the Production Section which is followed strictly in giving delivery of the printed copies on time.

Production handling of publications tillprintingProduction Section gives instructions on the hard copy for margins, print area, suitable typography for text and heading, etc. so that the final page looks the way it was planned initially. Proof readers of the Production Section ensure the quality of publication. Production Section then gets the cover design and art work made or improved by the Art & Graphic Section and checks the final pages complete with corrected text matter, art works, tables, etc. for getting the final approval of the clients, which is then sent for printing.

ProductionCosting, Billing and PaymentcollectionAfter printed and bound copies are received, Production Section arranges delivery of the printed copies right to the doorstep of the clients and calculates the actual cost of printing in order to send the bills to the clients. The follow-up for payments is another important area looked after by the Production, i.e. keeping coordination with the Accounts Section in tallying the payments received.

Value of jobs done during the period for various Departments

Departments Valueofjob(in`) 2010-11 2011-12 2012-13CSIR/CSIRLabs 13,28,62520,45,58524,20,150OtherGov.Dept.10,47,65017,28,50036,29,200TOTAL 23,76,275 37,74,085 60,49,350



Production Section also helps in procurement of printing paper, required annually, for printing all regular in-house and outside publications.

Payments received towards printing outside publications have added considerably to the ECF of NISCAIR. The outreach activity is also undertaken by the Section to get new outside jobs in future.

ART&GRAPHICArt & Graphic is creative and an important prepress activity. It takes care of all the visuals in the form of graphic art for various in-house and outside jobs undertaken by NISCAIR which are meant to be printed. Qualified Artists and Graphic Designers carry out exclusive jobs of visualizing and designing of the following:• Posters/Banners • Cover of Books/Magazines/Report, Jackets • Invitation Cards • Masthead, Logo • Folders, Brochures, Leaflet• Creative specialized layout for Magazines,

Pictorial Books, Newsletters and Annual Reports

• Numerous kinds of creative graphics, scientific illustrations, charts like Flowcharts, Bar chart, Pie charts etc.

• Scanning and editing to improve the impact of the pictures/illustrations.

The Art & Graphic team of NISCAIR keeps itself updated to meet the challenging competition of the graphic designing market, and uses latest versions of graphic-designing computer applications like Photoshop, CorelDraw, InDesign, etc. and execute designing jobs of various publications and publicity materials digitally.

Main designing applications used in designing of publication by the graphic team.

Few selected designed publications for CSIR-NISCAIR’s clients


Few selected designing jobs done forNISCAIR’s clients during 2010-2013:(i) Complete designing and formatting of CSIR corporate brochure consisting 64 pages; and Book entitled “Dynamics of Organisational Transformation and Executing Change”; (ii) Designing and Formatting of “Reference Handbook — Employees Self Services” for CSIR HQ; (iii) OSDD Brochure; (iv) TKDL Brochure; (v) Complete designing consisting Masthead, layout and formatting of Half yearly “EUINEC newsletter”; and “Polar News” Newsletter of NCAOR; (vi) Cover design of “Handbook on DOs & DONTs for Vigilance Division, CSIR HQ; (vii) Cover design of “Handbook on Delegation of Powers in CSIR” for CSIR HQ.

Regular In-houseJobs: (i) Designing covers and creating/editing/improvement of graphics or technical illustrations for approximately 150 issues of 20 NISCAIR Research periodicals printed annually; (ii) Designing, improvement of pictures and formatting of CSIR News and CSIR Samachar newsletters; (iii) Exclusive job of visualizing and designing of popular science

monthly magazines i.e. Science Reporter and Vigyan Pragati with attractive graphics (created or edited) and creative specialized layout; (iv) Cover design and graphics of popular science Urdu magazine (quarterly), Science ki Duniya.

Se l e c t ed In -house de s i gn ing J obs(Miscellaneous) done during 2010-2013:(i) Complete designing with graphics, creative layout and formatting of the Books entitled “Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar – The Man and His Vision”; “Quality Education and Excellence in Science Research in Indian Universities”; and “A Random Walk in the World of Creativity & Innovation”; (ii) Logo design of NISCAIR Diamond jubilee year (2012); (iii) Complete Brochure Design of Extension Bulletin of Wealth of India; “Precious minerals in everyday life” (September 2011); (iv) Designing of all the printed material for the International Conferences and International workshops on “Climate Change and Environment” (October 2010); “International Conference on Science Communication and Scientific Temper”

Few selected publications of CSIR-NISCAIR designed by the Art & Graphic Section.



(January 2012); International Conference in Hindi entitled, “Vaigyanic Drishtikon tatha chetna jagane mai sanchar madhyamo ki bhumika” (May 2012); (v) Designing of all the printed material for “Diamond Jubilee Concluding Function” (October 2012).

DESKTOPPUBLISHING(DTP)DTP is an important pre-press activity for the printing of Research Journals, Books & Magazines, Proceedings, Encyclopaedia, Annual Reports, Bulletins, Folders, Newsletters, Pamphlets, etc. The section takes up both in-house as well as outside jobs. The work involves page formatting, layout designing of 2- and 4-color jobs, scanning of illustrations/photographs and color correction, etc.

The DTP unit is equipped with the latest computers and softwares like Ventura, PageMaker, MS Office, Photoshop, In-Design, Akshar and Leap Office (Hindi), etc. which are used in page formatting and designing work. The pages of the journals and other publications are formatted as per the required house style and standard guidelines. These publications contain a number of B&W and color Photographs/Illustrations, Halftones, Drawings, etc. which are scanned and incorporated into the laid-out pages and the single piece output taken through Laser Printer or Imagesetter on Translucent sheet/Film for printing.

PRINTINGSECTIONAll the 20 NISCAIR research journals are printed in-house. Apart from this the quarterly Urdu popular science magazine Science ki Duniya, the monthly newsletters CSIR News (English) and CSIR Samachar (Hindi), scholarly and popular science books are all printed in-house. Books published by NISCAIR such as the IT series,

Q-series, Wealth of India, etc. are also reprinted periodically.

All the job recieved by the section for printing through offset are printed by the section. Few selected jobs are mentioned below:1. Annual Reports of CSIR headquarters, &

CSIR labs and DSIR (English & Hindi); 2. Pre-proceedings of International Conference

on Scientific Temper and Sammelan Chhavi of International Conference;

3. Books Fundamentals of Science Communication, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar – The Man and His Vision, Quest for Scientific Temper, Vaigyanik Drishtikon – Ek Nayi Pahal, Quality Education and Excellence in Science Research in Indian Universities, Constructing Culture of Science, Bark Drugs;

4. Booklet on NISCAIR Short-term Course Calendar, DST Lahar booklets;

5. Polar newsletter, EUINEC newsletter, CEERI News, SDC Newsletter;

6. NCAOR Goa, Herbaria;7. Zaheer Foundation Abstracts; 8. Instruction to coordinators, IWCCE

Conference Abstracts;9. Random Innovation, OSDD Brochure; 10. Journals MAUSAM and Pure & Applied

Ultrasonic Journal 11. CSIR Foundation Day Invitation Cards

& Speaker Leaflet, CSIR Foundation Day Lecture, CSIR Folder, TKDL book & folder.

The per annum output of the printing section is around ten million colour pages and fifteen million black-and-white pages. The printing section is converting around 90 MT of coated paper/board and 9-10 MT of uncoated paper per annum into research journals, popular science & scholar books, newsletters etc.

The printing section is equipped with sheet-fed offset printing machines from single colour


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to four colour presses. It is now well equipped to deliver the desired quality and production with the commissioning of four-colour Offset Printing press Komori Lithrone LS 429. The printing section also has three single-colour offset and three double-colour offset printing machines to cater to b/w jobs.

The section also has a plate making unit with two printing down frames & an auto plate processor to feed the printing machines. The binding unit has an imported paper cutting

machine – Perfecta-115. This unit also has two stitching machines and one comb-binding machine to meet the requirement of loose-leaf binding.

NISCAIR is also imparting 6-8 weeks summer 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). Training module includes Printing, DTP, Production and Graphic Art.

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