Ankit Printing Press

Our press is located in the Somya Complex on Basanti Colony Road. If you walk into the building, you will probably hear our machines before you see us. There is a very specific smell of ink and paper that hangs around the whole place. We have stacks of paper everywhere—different sizes, different colors, some waiting to be printed and some already done. It is not a very tidy place because printing is a messy business. We have the big machines taking up most of the floor space, and there is just enough room for us to move between them. We spend our days setting up the plates and making sure the ink levels are right. It’s a lot of standing and watching the rollers turn. We do all sorts of small jobs for the local neighborhood, like wedding cards or shop flyers. Sometimes the machines act up and we have to spend a couple of hours getting them back in order. We don’t have a fancy front desk; we just have a small corner with a computer and a chair where we take down the details of what people need. The lights are a bit dim in the back, but we can see what we are doing. It’s steady work and we are used to the noise. We’ve been in Basanti Colony for a bit, so we know the other shop owners in the complex. It is just our daily life here.