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Print industry's colour crusaders


Print industry’s colour crusaders
Kochi-based Future Schoolz has embarked on a journey to address colour standards in India. Aultrin Vijay speaks to Kulakkada Pradeep and Jose Thomas in Thiruvananthapuram
Thomas (l) and Pradeep are working with international associations to address the knowledge gap in standardisation of print in India
Aultrin Vijay (AV): First of all, please tell us a bit about your association with organisations such as ISO and ICC.
Kulakkada Pradeep (KP): ISO consists of more than 165 associate members and India is also a part of it. And ISO/TC 130 deals with standards for the graphic arts industry. It is a working group intended to find new formulations, technologies and advancements to improve the quality of print. It is mostly associated with colour, technology and photography. We are also part of the same committee in International Color Consortium (ICC). ....

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Print History: Abhijit Gupta- Book History in India


Abhijit Gupta is one of the leading practitioners of book history in twenty-first century India. He looks back at the work done in the past twenty years and considers the challenges ahead in a conversation with Murali Ranganathan
When did you realise that you had evolved into a book historian from a professor of English literature? How did the evolution happen?
It happened the other way around. I started teaching in an English department in 1999 and prior to that I had completed a PhD during 1994-96 on the publishing histories of some women novelists in late 19th-century England. But when I started my doctoral research in 1994, I was not even aware that a discipline called book history existed. So you could say that this was a classic instance of speaking prose without knowing it. ....

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