FOTO FLASH Invests in RICOH Digital Press for Its Hyderabad Unit

Mr Ranjith with clients at FOTO FLASH alongside the new RICOH Pro C9500

New Delhi, November 17, 2025: Chennai-headquartered FOTO FLASH Digital Lab Group is known for being a leading photo lab in the city’s digital
printing landscape. Now, this 45-year-old photo lab has forayed into Hyderabad where unveiled a new digital printing unit at Lakdikapul area
in the city. Currently boosting productivity, quality, and consistency in photo printing reliably at the new Hyderabad unit is a RICOH Pro C9500 from Monotech Systems Limited—an Indian machine manufacturer and a one-stop solution provider for the printing & packaging industry globally.

“We have a line of inkjet engines in our production setup. New in the line, this top-of-the-line RICOH Pro C9500 digital colour production press is chosen to boost print quality and productivity,” tells Mr Ranjith, Managing Director of PHOTO FLASH Digital Lab Group (Hyderabad). He adds that the machine, installed in April this year, has been running over the last five months in a game-changing manner to produce high-quality photo albums of all kinds because it is advantageously packed with advanced features.

About the productivity of the new RICOH Pro C9500, Mr Ranjith emphasises, “In the first three months of the press’ installation, we produced near about 400,000 sheets a month.” This robustly built RICOH press is indeed a workhorse in a real sense of the term as it gallops at a stunning speed upgradable to 135ppm. In addition to speed, media flexibility of the press is commendable as it handles a range of thin and thick substrates of 40gsm to 470gsm for catering graphic prints in the industry’s leading resolution of 2400x4800dpi.

Being a machine made for high-volume print production, RICOH Pro C9500 boasts a maximum 18,000-sheet input capacity, which in turn makes it a truly capable digital press that provides the continuity in uninterrupted high-volume print production. “After all, its colour consistency and registration are exceptional when compared to other digital engines,” informs Mr Ranjith, adding, “Till now, we get excellent results so consistently.”

Mr Ranjith continues, “Another specialty of this RICOH Pro C9500 is that when we installed it around five months back, we took out a grey print.
Today, when we check it again, it’s found to be the same without flaw. Yet another advantageous point—it runs without any snag or change of spare till date. It clearly shows that it needs little or no frequent servicing and its components or spare parts are durable. It’s ideally a modern marvel of digital printing.”

Moreover, at the core of RICOH Pro C9500 is the EFI® Fiery® Digital Print Servers which comprehensively improve efficiency in print outputs. Fiery® Command WorkStation® in the servers precisely manages jobs and controls colours. With this workflow software supporting the digital press’ variable data printing capabilities in exceptional RIP speeds and smooth PDF workflows, FOTO FLASH’s production team is now empowered to produce high-quality prints and personalised graphics faster than before.

“My journey with Monotech Systems Limited started in 2011 when they were dealing in Konica Minolta then and we bought a bizhub PRESS C70hc photo printing machine with some post-press equipment. So far, we have been happy with them. When we recently installed the RICOH Pro C9500, they still offered us the same standard of service we received then in 2011. Thank you team Monotech Systems Limited for your all-time support which we expect the same in the future and forever,” articulates Mr Ranjith.