Prepared by Sol Rodriguez, Ricoh Argentina
History and Context
Since its inception in 2000 as a single-person venture, La Imprenta Ya has maintained a clear vision: to deliver quality graphic solutions that meet the evolving needs of its clients. What began with basic equipment and a lean structure evolved steadily through a consistent commitment to innovation, technology adoption, and service development.
Today, the company specializes in producing editorial and commercial materials on demand, offering solutions for books, catalogs, magazines, agendas, brochures, and promotional pieces. Its ability to adapt to new trends in the graphic market has established it as a reference point in digital printing, delivering high-quality work with speed and flexibility.
With a philosophy centered on continuous improvement, La Imprenta Ya continued investing in technology to optimize its processes, expand its productive capabilities, and respond efficiently to its clients' growing demands,and that's where their path intersected with Ricoh.
Business Challenge
The transformation of the graphic market has driven growing demand for customized work, short runs, and increasingly tight delivery schedules. In this context, La Imprenta Ya identified the need to strengthen its productive capacity through technology that would improve printing costs while maintaining the high quality standards that characterize its work.
Beyond addressing current operational needs, the investment was part of a broader transformation strategy focused on expanding the company's capabilities and continuing to evolve as a graphic services provider.
"Today at La Imprenta Ya, we are building on a strong brand message premised on being a services company. In this way, this investment is part of that transformation process seeking to strengthen the company's productive capacity and expand its participation in new markets and business segments," affirms Marianela Bravo, CEO & Founder de La Imprenta Ya.
One of the key challenges was ensuring precise registration and excellent image quality for editorial production, particularly in book printing, where consistency and accuracy are critical factors in the final result.
Additionally, the company sought to incorporate a versatile solution that would support its operational growth and enable it to expand its graphic application offerings without compromising process efficiency.
RICOH Solution
To support this new growth phase, La Imprenta Ya adopted the RICOH Pro C9500. digital production press, designed to meet the demands of modern commercial printing environments by combining customization, high levels of productivity, superior image quality, and broad versatility to work with different media types and applications.
Results
The adoption of the RICOH Pro C9500 enabled La Imprenta Ya to optimize its operations and move toward a more efficient and competitive productive structure.
Among the principal benefits achieved, a significant improvement in printing costs stands out, which strengthened its market positioning, along with an increase in overall operational productivity. The company also achieved shorter production and delivery times, increasing its responsiveness to on-demand work and urgent requirements.
From a productive capability perspective, the new technology significantly expanded application possibilities, allowing work with higher-weight and higher-quality materials, printing in larger formats, and offering greater versatility for different types of projects. At the same time, color stability, registration precision, and print consistency ensured more reliable results with more accurate and uniform colors in every job produced.
These advances align with the company's growth strategy and strengthen its ability to deliver increasingly competitive service.
"The adoption of the RICOH Pro C9500 represents an important step within our growth strategy. We were looking for a solution that would allow us to increase productivity, optimize costs, and maintain the quality standards our clients expect from us. The implementation experience with the Ricoh team was very positive, and we are convinced that this technology will enable us to continue supporting the development of new projects with greater efficiency and flexibility," oncluded Marianela Bravo.
Collectively, these improvements translate into greater value for clients: graphic pieces of higher quality, greater visual impact, and an operation capable of responding with agility to market demands.
The technological partnership with Ricoh has enabled La Imprenta Ya to continue innovating and investing in solutions that deliver greater value to its clients while maintaining quality, efficiency, and flexibility, values that align with its fundamental business proposition. Ricoh LATAM continues creating intelligent work spaces in the Graphics Arts sector, where technology generates smarter processes and positions your business as the first and only choice for impactful experiences.
Ricoh Latin America, and La Imprenta Ya acted together in support of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals for a better future:
Ricoh at a global level is a company committed to achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) by solving social problems through business with the sole purpose of achieving economic growth, a better planet. and a better society.
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