This is a very interesting article by Xri Noronha tracing briefly the history of printing in the region of Goa and Bombaim. Movable blocks which later became type faces were probably created by the Chinese. Bombaim had many type foundries many situated in Thakurdwar in Girgaum. One such famous foundry was called Gujrati type foundry. One wonders with this disruptive technology called the internet if this company exists. In Goa printing companies were/are mainly small scale owned by families. One such famous printing company is called Tipografia Rangel who has published many books and doucments over the ages. In Pangim the presses were probably supported (businesswise) by the mine owners. In the early 70's only the letterpress system was used. In the 80's onwards as bharat opened its pockets for foreign exchange lithographic printing was introduced in Goa. Casa JD Fernandes is such an example to be using four colour presses for their packaging unit.
BC Frederick Noronha (The Navhind Times) [email protected] Over the past many months, I've been closely following a series of articles in a technical journal that few might notice, which is called PrintWeek India. These informative articles have been written by Murali Ranganathan. Like his earlier work which one encountered (Govind Narayan's Mumbai: An Urban Biography from 1863, Anthem Press, 2009), these also deal with the print history of Bombay, now Mumbai. ***************************************
