The Regional Institute of Printing Technology (formerly known as The School of Printing Technology),Jadavpur,Kolkata, was founded on 30th day of July 1956 under the first 5-year plan of the Government of India by the recommendation of AICTE.The Institute started its course curricula with some equipment prevalent at that time. Since then several attempts have been made to keep pace with present day technology.The Institute started functioning as a sponsored Institution funded jointly by the  Central and State Government and then it was taken over by the Government of West Bengal on 30th April 1980. Since then it is running as a Government Institute under the Department of Technical Education and Training and Skill Development, Government of West Bengal.
Apart from West Bengal, students from different states of Eastern India and from Islands of Andaman Nicobar attend this Institute to study 3-year full time job oriented Diploma courses in Printing, Photography and Multimedia Technology.