St Joseph’s Press, Trivandrum is an institution owned by the Malabar Province of the Order of the Discalced Carmelites. It was established in the year 1948 and had a very humble beginning with two Treadle Machines and a few cases of Types in Malayalam and English. St Joseph’s Press had its steady growth over the 7 decades of its service to the public. The futuristic vision of the founding Fathers of the Press adopted the right technologies responding to the needs of the printing industry and reading the signs of the times.

The growth chart of St Joseph’s Press could be depicted in the following way: Hand Composing and Treadle Presses in the fifties, Automatic Cylinder Press and Block Making in the sixties, Lithographic Printing in the Seventies, Photo-type setting and Large Format Offset Presses in the eighties, Computer Typesetting and Multi-Colour. Offset Printing in the nineties, CTP and Multi-colour Web Offset in the 2Ks.

Rev. Fr. Peter Thomas, the first manager of SJP, along with Fr. Archangel and Fr. Aloysius, were visionaries who laid the foundation. Fr. Archangel later built the first Press building.