PrintWeek Awards 2025: Thomson Press (India) wins Book Printer of the Year (Print on Demand - POD)

The quality and efficiency of print-on-demand have been on the rise in the last couple of years. While every big book printing firm in India can now deliver a decent POD product, Thomson Press (India) continues to be miles ahead of the others, in terms of value addition in post-press and quick turnaround. This is why the company records a hat trick of wins in the category this year, after winning it in 2023 and 2024.

1,000 copies of each of the three samples — Fast and Furious in Tokyo, Trunks Company and The Doon School Old Boys’ Society — were printed on an HP Indigo. They come with slipcases. Other post-press embellishments include gold foiling, velvet lamination, debossing on slipcase and foil-like UV effect. The Trunks Company job also involves back-to-back pasting with special paper.

203 copies of the three-volume Oxford Encyclopaedia of the Music of India were printed on a Canon four colour press. Post-press processes involve hot silver foil stamping, embossing, aqueous coating, and die-cutting on the slipcase — all giving the box set a premium feel.

Sponsor’s Statement

We are proud to sponsor PrintWeek’s Digital Book (POD) recognition in 2025. As book manufacturing transforms, Bindwel and our digital post-press brand SigLoch enable offset-quality finishing for short-run and on-demand workflows. At Drupa 2024, we introduced Insta, placing India among the few geographies with true books-on-demand capability — up to 1,000 unique books per hour. Together with Freedom 2K and Trimit SRT, we power short-run inkjet ecosystems that are agile, zero-waste by design, and repeatably precise. The PrintWeek Awards honour those who push the frontier of digital bookmaking. We salute every entrant, commended companies, and the winner. We remain committed to sharing best practices, training, and technology that raise the bar for Indian short-run publishing.