DEPARTMENT OF GOVERNMENT PRINTING & PUBLISHING SERVICES - Gaborone, Botswana

Areas of Responsibility
Printing and Publishing services for government

Sales and marketing



Key functions of department

Provides printing services to all government ministries and departments.

Provides Stationery Services – by producing standard documents such as patient cards, application for leave forms, file covers and standard forms used across Government Departments.

Supports dissemination of Government information through distribution of the Government Gazette which contains messages of legal, administrative and general nature.

Facilitate the Attorney General and National Assembly in the process of making laws. Also responsible for publishing of these laws and their distribution through our outlets around the country.

Departments/Sections of the  

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Ministry
Costing and Estimating

Order Section

Graphic design

Composing

Machine Printing

Print Finishing and Bookbinding

Engineering

Human Resource and Administration

Bookshops (Gaborone, Francistown, Serowe, Maun)

Departments/Sections and Key Functions
Costing and estimating:

Production of cost estimates for jobs
Quotations
Invoicing
Processing of payments for printed jobs


Order section:

Production planning, scheduling and control
Pre – production technical advice
Job chasing
Implementation of the Safety, Health and Environment Strategy


Composing:

Typesetting and layout

Plate production



Graphic design:

Designing


Machine printing:

Offset printing

Digital printing

Web offset printing



Print finishing and book – binding:

Book binding

Padding

Embossing and Foiling

Scoring

Numbering

Punching and drilling

Packaging



Engineering

Maintenance of facilities (building and machinery)



Human resource & administration

Human resource management

Accounts

Procurement and contract management