A day in the life of K J Thomas

K J Thomas, managing director, Varna Offset Printers, Kochi.

19 Sep 2012 | By PrintWeek India

Where are you now and what can you see?
Doing well. With a print set-up that is well-equipped and automated, I can see my establishment ready to meet the domestic as well as export print requirements. I see a bright future.

What are you currently printing?
Magazines, brochures, folders and the like. It’s about 50-60 jobs per day.

Choose a favourite print job/author and say why you admire it?
An invitation card, I do not remember. But it was full of special value-added job. 

Describe your office?
It’s a 4,500 sq/ft premise (in three locations but in close vicinity of each other).

Which is your favourite equipment in your unit? And why?
The Heidelberg stitcher. It can produce quick jobs – it can collate, stitch, cut and count. It enables us to produce more.

Which famous person would you like to print a job for? And why?
Unfortunately he is no more. I would have liked to print a job for Narasimha Rao. He was a brilliant politician, who changed India’s economy, because of which the print industry benefitted.