300level mass communication students first ever Academic excursion. (photo news 2)

Batch 2 waiting patiently  to be toured round the building.

The student were shown the first printing machine used by FAB in 1977. It was quite difficult as it was done manually and it was time consuming.

A staff illustration some basic concept about the kind of papers used and how such papers can be differentiated and how the use of column are important in newspapers.

The students were moved to the COMPUTER room where every production starts. It where all designs are created with the use of corel draw as their major editing software programme.

After which the students where taken to the  DARK room, it is a second stage of production.

As explained by the staff "darkroom is used to process photography to make prints and to carryout other associated tasks. It is a room that can be made completely dark to allow the processing of the light-sensitive photographic materials and film".

LITHOGRAPHY room: Litography as explained is a printing process that uses a flat stone or metal plate on which the image areas are worked using a greasy substance so that the ink will adherd to them by, while the non image areas are msds ink repellent.

Other machines that are use in this section.

In as much as students where all getting tried it was quite interesting to be in the PRINTING room.

The printing room has quite a number of machines that are use for different functions, one of such machine is the four coloured printing machine that print in Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black. (It first print in cyan and black before magenta and yellow).

A roland maged machine use for printing large material and coloured publications. 

with the polar-mohr machine you can cut and trim the edges or excess of a publication.

Photo credit:

  ADUNKPE Mercy.