April 16-18 - How to print in Indore

the printer guy and I

On April 19 we would hold our final presentation to Hemal and hand over the deliverables to her. Until then we have met with representatives from Mahindra, Suzlon and Tata to test the concept but also to get feedback on whether the ideas and assumptions we made are realistic. From all three of them we received valuable feedback which was now up to us to implement those changes so that we could hand over a realistic and feasible concept to Hemal to set up her Women’s Resource Center. Late Wednesday afternoon, Riya was ready to take us to a copy shop in Indore. Prepared with our USB Thumb Drives (that is what they call them here) and the final version of the presentation and all deliverables we went to the shop. The place was crowded and very hot. We had to wait a little bit until it was time for us to print.

me, Jessica, the copy shop guys & Tyler

Unlike to what I am used to at home you are not able to print the stuff on your own, but there is an employee sitting in front of a computer who prints for you. So you end up telling him want you want… which is not simple if you are not fluent in Hindi. Luckily Riya was with us and helped us out. As IBMers are we want it very specifically done in our way and when communication and pointing with fingers on the screen failed I took over the PC for a while. The poor guy, I probably interfered with his personal space now. Anyway, everything got printed and the next stage was to copy all of it a couple of times. Because what we learned was that printing is more expensive than copying... so we did.

I don’t remember how much time we spent in that shop but we got it done and were happy… we had dinner and even had some more time to do a last minute shopping… a leather store and a handbag, this is how the day ended.