Bansi Lal Arora, founder, Royal Offset Printers, is no more

The printing industry in Delhi was built on the strength of a group of self-made men each of whom individually initiated a movement for the future in the 1970s. Bansi Lal Arora was one of them.

Born in Jhang-Maghiana in today’s Pakistan in 1940, Arora migrated to India during the Partition. He started his career as a helper in a bindery for a decade before starting his own bindery, Royal Binders, in Old Delhi in 1970. A few years later, the operations were shifted to Naraiana Industrial Area. Later, Royal Binders was renamed Royal Offset Printers.

His son Vikas joined the business in 1996 and took charge from him in 2010.

Currently, Royal Offset Printers works for commercial and book printing industry. It has a complete setup from pre-press to the final product and houses printing presses from Komori and Ryobi. Last year, the company forayed into digital printing with an investment in a Xerox Versant and the Duplo finishing kit.

The ISO 9001:2008 certified company, with stuff strength of 30 people, converts more than 50 tonnes of paper per month.