St Francis Press produces 1000 books per month through POD

Ably handling short run jobs with Ricoh printer, generating more revenues to enhance profitability

Book printing is major area of operations at St Francis Press, and with annual growth rate of around twelve percent, they have reached to the turnover of rupees six crore. “Presently we produce books for more than twenty publishers from India and overseas. Around fifteen percent books produced by us are exported. By installing Ricoh printer, we can now handle short run jobs effectively, generating more revenues to enhance profitability,” conveys Rajan PS of St Francis Press in a brief conversation with P&P.

Established in the year 1926 to specially print religious books, Cochin (Kerala) based St Francis Press is now living up to the emerging market trends, opting state-of-the-art technologies. Recently they established another milestone by installing Ricoh Pro 907EX printer to offer on-demand book printing services to a number of publishers.

Enabling to speed up the production while meeting and exceeding the customers’ varied demands, the Ricoh Pro 907EX is a complete, modular powerhouse designed to handle high-volume print orders efficiently. Highly reliable and customisable with a unique range of finishing functions, this system can make a difference offering speed up to 90 sheets per minute simplex and duplex productivity (A4), with optimum reliability and durability.