The Society is established in the year 1976 for printing the entire text books required by the school children in the Kerala State. From 1976 onwards the Society executes this time bound task as per the print order received from the General Education Department and the syllabi provided by the SCERT. Textbooks required for all students from Std I to Std X of Government, Aided and Unaided sectors have been printed by KBPS.

Most modern Printing Machines are used for printing of textbooks with high quality in four colour as specified by the Government. Printing Machines used for printing are:

Web offset Printing Machines

• Polygraph RO 66 Offset Printing Machine
• Orient X-cel Printing Machine I
• Orient X-cel Printing Machine I
• ManugraphCityline Express printing machine I
• ManugraphCityline Express printing machineII
• Harris GraphicsM 300 Web offset Printing Machine
• GOSS WSD-598 WISPRINT 4 colour web offset printing machine.

Sheetfed Printing Machines

• HMT SOM 436 four colour sheet fed offset printing machine
• HMT SOM 236 two colour sheet fed offset printing machine
• HMT SOM 225 two colour sheet fed offset printing machine