Question
Give an account of the talent of Upendra Kishore in the area of printing.
Answer
Upendra Kishore Roy Choudhury was a pioneer in printing in India. He introduced many revolutionary techniques and equipment in the printing industry, including modern half-tone blocks in South Asia. He learned the craft of printing with modern blocks in England and started a successful business making modern printing blocks upon his return to India. He also introduced the use of photographs in books and cover pages, known as “Process Work.” To improve picture quality, he used various techniques like the ‘Sixty degree screen’, ‘diafram method’, and ‘tintprocess’. He founded a studio for drawing pictures and started his own publication house named ‘U. Roy & Sons’ in 1895. He was the first Bengali in Asia to start a colored printing press named U. Roy & Sons in 1913, from where the first children’s magazine ‘Sandesh’ was published. Upendra Kishore’s invention of the Screen Adjester Machine was commercially made in England with a new brand name ‘Roy Screen Adjester Machine.’
