With orders from educational institutions and automobile industries, the month of April usually promises flourishing business for printing press owners. Like many others', their familiar flow of life has been rudely jolted this year, with the nationwide lockdown in the wake of the novel coronavirus pandemic. To put it simply in a nutshell, it amounts to an everyday loss of revenue of Rs 5.1 crore for the printing press economy in the city! Printing is a booming business with more than 10,000 units in the city -- 7000 small and 3000 established presses, according to business experts. The COVID-triggered slump…
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