Nashik-based Sofine Color Lab boasts a portfolio of high-end machines comprising the recently installed Ricoh Pro C9200, which prints high-quality photos. This new Ricoh digital color production press now running productively at the company’s well-equipped production setup has been supplied and installed by Monotech Systems.
A continuing legacy of a family-owned business, Sofine Color Lab has been run by three generations of Sonavane family. Vikrant Sonavane, proprietor, Sofine Color Lab, who is the third generation in the business, says the company’s establishment dates to India’s pre-Independence era. “It was in the year 1943 when my great grandfather BK Sonavane, who was the first generation from the family in the business, switched to photography and opened a photo studio in the year 1957,” Vikrant says.
Over the last eight decades, Sofine Color Lab has incarnated into many avatars. The company keeps transforming its infrastructure, lines of machines and technologies, manpower, print innovations, etc. “From generation to generation it has been our tradition to invest in the latest machines and technologies,” mentions Vikrant, adding the purchase of Ricoh Pro C9200 from Monotech Systems is pretty much a part of the company’s age-old tradition of bringing home the best technologies.
“Without a doubt, the addition of the new Ricoh Pro C9200 to our machine portfolio a few months ago has changed the way we used to manage quality in photo and commercial color graphics. Following the installation of this Ricoh Graphic Arts Edition digital color production press, we have increased our sheer capability to raise the print quality bar in photo and commercial printing,” Vikrant says.
The overall value and quality in commercial prints at Sofine Colour Lab have found new vibrancy following the purchase of the Ricoh Pro C9200, he says. Complementing this press are some other high-end production machines comprising a jet varnishing system. The main end-products of Sofine Color Lab, apart from its foremost photo books and albums, consist of fancy wedding and greeting cards, stickers, labels, booklets, and more.
“We have got positive feedback from a host of our customers concerning the quality of the overall digital prints we produce for them using the Ricoh Pro C9200,” emphasizes Vikrant. The press is capable of printing vibrant graphics in the resolution of 2400×4800 dpi on a range of lightweight and heavyweight media including super gloss, coated, thick cards, etc, up to 470 gsm at the speed of 115 ppm (pages per minute).
“We bank on this new Ricoh digital press to meet the rightly demanding standards of our customers from different market segments and industrial clusters.” He praised Monotech Systems for the machine and after-sales service support they get whenever required, irrespective of time and circumstances.
