Slow but sure, students learn with Bangkok Uniman

It’s taken more than a year, but the twin-web manroland Uniman 2/2 press at Bangkok’s institute of press engineering has been painstakingly assembled. Some 38 first and second year students – equal numbers of each – have just completed the job as part of bachelor degree courses covering engineering and press maintenance. A first test printing was set for the Saturday immediately following the SEANG meeting. In charge of the project – and the students’ engineering progress – is Kitti Yimnlamai, who joined the institute after retiring from the ‘Thairath Daily’. The top-selling newspaper also contributed the press – which prints one mono and one colour web – and spares, superceded by its busy Geoman lines, currently being upgraded. The upgrade order – in which manroland will overhaul and upgrade the publisher’s six Geoman presslines – is the maker’s largest individual service contract.