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First       : The Organization
Second   : Basic Organization data 2000 - 2001
Third      : The General Organization for Government Printing Offices headquarters
Fourth     : Historical background
Fifth        : Printing Art progression
Sixth       : The Organization's role in the modern scientific revival
Seventh   : The Organization's effect on the Law Library

First: The Organization
The Organization performs all printing and binding works needed by the state administrative bodies, the making of scholastic books, notebooks, scrapbooks, exam answering sheets besides publications & minutes of The Shura Council, The People's Assembly, The Official Newspaper (El Gareeda El Rasmia) and The Egyptian Official Newspaper (El-Wakaea El Massreya). It also prints formal bulletins, the publications of organizations and public & private business sector companies, banks, The Legislative Bulletin, passports, identity cards & all kinds of publications needed for the state administrative bodies such as standard forms & accounting books that are used in a standardized form. Those include: standardized publications & calculating publications.
The Organization also manufactures packs of white lined paper of all sizes and dimensions as well as printing and publishing the religious heritage, Holy Koran interpretation books, and the Prophet's sayings.
 

Second: Basic Organization data 2000 - 2001
 

Third: The General Organization for Government Printing Offices headquarters

22, Corniche El-Nil Street, Embaba, Giza, Egypt
Telephones Numbers: 3119891- 3118248 - 3118256
Head of the Financial Affairs Central Department tel.: 3119889
Head of the Commercial Affairs Central Department tel.: 3118242
Head of the Production Affairs Central Department tel.: 3118255
Board of Directors Chairman

Tel.: 3118682 - 3119451
Fax: 3119451
E-mail: geoprint@idsci.gov.eg

Fourth: Historical background

The General Organization for Government Printing Offices dates back to 179 years ago.

Boulaq Printing Press was established in September 1235 A.H. - 1820 A.D. and was inaugurated officially in 1821 by El-Wali Mohamed Ali Pasha. It printed books & military publications for the Army.
Later it undertook some developments, whereas it started printing literary, scientific & educational books.

In October 1862 A.D., Khedive Saeed Pasha granted the printing press to Abdu Al-Rahman Bek Roshdy as a present. Later, Khedive Ismaeel bought the printing press & affiliated it to the "Sania Possessions".
In the era of Khedive Tawfiq, and precisely on 20/06/1880, the
printing press was reverted to the state.

On 13th August 1956, former President Gamal Abdel Nasser issued the decree no. 312 for 1956 to form the General Organization for Government Printing Offices and it was affiliated to the Ministry of Industry. The board of directors held its first meeting at the beginning of September 1956 A.D. under the leadership of Dr. Aziz Sidqi, the Minister of Industry.
Since that date, the Ministry of Industry took the decision to construct a new building for the Organization at Embaba area, on approximately 35,000 square meters, to be able to perform its mission. The Ministry of Industry supplied it with the most recent of advanced printing machines. New departments were created such as:


- Photo Composing Department.
- Scanner Department
- Offset printing.
- Automatic Binding lines.
- Computer Department.

The new building was inaugurated officially in the era of President Mohamed Anwar El Sadat by the Minister of Industry Eng. Ibrahim Salem Mohammaden on Saturday, the 28th Jumada Al-Akhera 1393 A.H., the 28th July 1973 A.D. The Organization was considered one of an economic character according to the decision # 1039 for the year 1979 issued by the Prime Minister.

Fifth: Printing Art progression

The Organization performs all printing and binding works needed by the state administrative bodies, the production of scholastic books, notebooks, scrapbooks, exam answering sheets besides publications & minutes of The Shura Council, The People's Assembly, The Official Newspaper (El Gareeda El Rasmia) and The Egyptian Official Newspaper (El-Wakaea El Massreya); formal bulletins, the publications of organizations and public & private business sector companies, banks, The Legislative Bulletin, passports, identity cards & all kinds of publication needed for the state administrative bodies such as standard forms & accounting books that are used in a standardized form. Those include: standardized publications & calculating publications.

The Organization used to import letters and other printing necessities from Italy but Egypt ceased importing from Europe because of its low quality and various defects, and assigned prominent figures in calligraphy, imprint, painting, engineering, and languages to improve, and renovate the Arabic letters base.


With the introduction of Mono-tape to the Organization, it became the sole house in the Middle East that possesses such an art. The Organization has added this procedure to save time, effort and cost as well as to improve precision and speed.

At a later stage, Leno-tape machines were added. The General Organization for Government Printing Offices used computer like all other institutions and organizations.

Sixth: The Organization's role in the modern scientific revival

- Executing all the various ministries' publication works.

- Executing all the Ministry of Education's publications and participating in the education of the nation's youth.

- Reliance on machinery in printing books instead of manual work.

- Promoting reading and book acquisition among the people.

- Publishing books in all fields of modern sciences (was the first to publish that type of books in Egypt).

- Publishing old Arabic books which are considered rare.

- Publishing books in Arabic, and other eastern languages such as Persian.


Seventh: The Organization's effect on the Law Library

The Organization never ceased to converse its message, instead it decided to support the Law Library and published the laws written under the state including all modifications and the adjoining ministerial decisions.

Therefore it provided support to those working in all fields, by helping them get acquainted with the laws governing their affairs.



Such law publications and books are available at:
Sales Center of Government Publications, Opera Square Branch - Cairo, Sales Center of Government Publications, Alexandria Branch –

3, El Shaheed Galal El Desoki St. El Hadhra;

General Stores - Alexandria