Winner of PrintWeek India Newspaper Printer of the Year 2013

Anandabazar Patrika (Kolkata)
Tel: 91-33-2260 0174 / snehasis.roy@abp.in

Kolkata-based Anandabazar Patrika (ABP) was in the news for the installation of Wifag 370S, a large, modern, high performance web offset press.

It was also in news for the innovation it did with the publication of The Telegraph on the day the IPL 2013 was inaugurated. This special feature was a first for the Indian newspaper publishing, claims ABP.

The standard newsprint for that day’s daily, was jacketed with a Glama transluscent paper, which was printed using a cold web offset process at a speed of 23 copies per second. This innovative jacket daily along with other three publications, which were also the ‘Best in Print’ at Wan-Ifra Asia Media, won ABP the Newspaper Printer of the Year 2013 Award.

The newspaper segment continues to grow in India. With a print run of 4,00,000 copies printed on the new Wifag at 85,000cph, ABP epitomises it. The award entries were counted, packed, and top-sheeted automatically by the Swiss-make Ferag mailroom system. Adobe Acrobat PDFs were pre-flighted using Onevisin Asura and plates were fired using Agfa Arkitex CTP.

The Telegraph was launched on the 7th July, 1982 and in its short life span of 26 years has become the largest circulated English daily in the eastern region published from Kolkata. The success, ABP claims, is because of the constant value-addition it does to its product. The Telegraph introduced an eight-page colour section, Metro, to its edition, which is dedicated to Kolkata and its people. The Telegraph is also published from Guwahati (to cater to the entire north-east), Siliguri (for North Bengal and Sikkim), Jamshedpur, and Ranchi (for Jharkhand).

Commended
Arun Art Printers (Jammu)
D B Corp (Raipur, Chattisgarh)
D B Corp (Ahmedabad)
D B Corp (Ranchi)
Dainik Jagran (New Delhi)
Express Publications (Madurai)