INSTITUTE OF PRINTING TECHNOLOGY CHENNAI

INSTITUTE OF PRINTING TECHNOLOGY CHENNAI

The origin of the Institute of Printing Technology goes back to the year 1926. A Printing Technology Section was started in the Madras Trades School which was a Government Institution. A part-time certificate course of four year duration in printing technology was introduced. In 1931, the Trades School became the Government School of Technology and in 1938, the four year certificate course was upgraded to a full fledged Diploma course of five years duration. In the year 1946, the Government School of Technology was renamed as Central Polytechnic and a full-time Diploma course in Printing Technology of three year duration was introduced in addition to the five-year part-time course. In the year 1955, the Printing Section of the Central Polytechnic was separated and an independent Regional School of Printing for the Southern Region was started in 1958. During 1960–61, the full-time Diploma course in Printing Technology was restructured as Letterpress and Lithography, with new syllabi and curriculum to update the knowledge of the students in the Printing industry. In January 1975, the name of the Institution was changed to ‘Institute of Printing Technology’. In June 1975, the full-time and part-time Diploma courses were restructured as Semester pattern. In 1987, the pattern of education was restructured again as an integrated course of three years. In 1999–2000, the Government of Tamil Nadu introduced New Syllabi common for all first year diploma Courses conducted by the Department of Technical Education. The first year students are also expected to undergo the same syllabi as the first year engineering students of other branches to help them join the engineering degree course, particularly the degree in printing technology conducted by the Anna University. ‘L’ Scheme syllabus was introduced in June 2011. ‘M’ Scheme syllabus was introduced in 2015. Its insignia has three rollers in three subtractive colours - cyan, magenta and yellow, with the acronym depicted as a relief face of a type, whose stroke thickness varies from extreme thickness to extreme thinness. The three rollers are placed in symmetry within a circle.