Lucknow’s Talwar Colour Lab & Studioz buys RICOH

Figure 1: Mr. Ajay Talwar with RICOH Pro C7200X

New Delhi, February 9, 2023: Talwar Colour Lab & Studioz is a prodigy of photo printing business. Genesis of this Lucknow-based photo album printing and production company is dating back to India’s pre-independence era. In tune with the ongoing market trends & technologies, Talwar Colour Lab & Studioz keeps upgrading its printing facility with advanced machines among which the latest being a RICOH Pro C7200X from Monotech Systems, a leading machine manufacturer and one-stop solution provider for the printing and packaging industry.

Recalling the early days of the company, Mr. Ajay Talwar, Proprietor, Talwar Colour Lab & Studioz, shares, “I am the third generation in our business. My grandfather started this company as a small photography shop in Pakistan during the pre-partition period. It came into a formal company in the year 1967 when my father joined the business. Then it came into being what it is today in the year 1990 with the unveiling of a well-equipped photo printing setup. And the rest is history!”

In the history of Talwar Colours Lab & Studioz, the company boasts of using high-end digital presses for vivid and life-like photos. “We choose best-in-class digital presses for photo printing. So far, we have used Konica Minolta AccurioPress C3070 professional printer, Xerox Phaser 3200 MFP, among others. Finally, we recently found the right marvel of photo printing—RICOH Pro C7200X, supplied by Monotech Systems. Now, we are fully satisfied with the outputs of this RICOH digital production press,” comments Mr. Talwar.

He adds, “We were in pursuit of a digital production press for premium photo applications. Our search came to a halt at Monotech Systems where we embarked upon the RICOH Pro C7200X. This digital press has the distinguished prowess and features that match our ambitions. In short, this press ticks all the boxes for us, and we now fully rely on this for endless range of high-end photo prints.”

Mr. Talwar continues, “After all, the speed and quality in print outputs of RICOH Pro C7200X are what impressed us about this digital press in the first place. It is an advanced digital press designed ideally to churn premium graphics on media up to 360 gsm. In addition, its 5^th Color Station is designed to create white, fluorescent, metallic, clear, security ink and other transparent applications for adding unique and luxurious elements to graphics.”

Backed by a team of more than dozen highly experienced printing, designing and creative art professionals, Talwar Colour Lab & Studioz pulls customers from all over Uttar Pradesh. The list includes some of the leading photo labs and professional photographers from Lucknow and neighbouring cities. “We are now gearing up to expand our client base to pull attentions of people from other states like Bihar in future,” informs Mr. Talwar.

As a future business expansion plan, Mr. Talwar says they are now chalking out plan to foray into the special packaging printing segment. “We now have the advanced and versatile RICOH Pro C7200X in our facility. This press is an ideal workhorse to explore newer graphic landscapes beyond our age-old photo printing business,” he explains. He conclusively states that the unique features of the press to take up unconventional media will help them navigate across new market domains. In addition, he appreciates the way Monotech Systems team attends them in a swift manner whenever needed—whether it’s technical advice or any other assistance.