The printing and publishing sector has been identified as a very promising activity and capable of making a significant contribution to the diversification of the industrial base of Mauritius. It has reached a stage in its evolution where it is fast making in-roads into international markets.

The Mauritian printing houses have made significant investments in the latest technology to achieve higher output and quality prints. The industry has advanced equipment such as high-ended colour scanners, large format image setters, sheeted and web-fed colour offset presses and a wide variety of automatic binding and finishing machines.

There is a wide scope for investments in the printing sector and products which have shown good export potential are: Educational textbooks, corporate reports, case bound and board books, colour illustrated books, mass market children's books, 3-D and pop-up books and weekly magazines.