This year’s participation by EFI at Ipex concentrates on the company’s productivity software with its advanced automatic digital workflow enabling print environments to become more efficient, generate greater cost and time savings, and implement integration to drive their businesses forward.
Primary products being demonstrated include MIS/ERP options Pace, Monarch, Radius, PrintSmith Vision, iQuote next-generation estimating software, Metrix print planning and imposition technology, Fiery and Fiery ProServer digital front-ends, web-to-print solutions Digital StoreFront and OPS, and the SmartSign Analytics tool to measure the effectiveness of signage.
Also featured is a full application wall showing the many types of output that can be produced using wide format and VUTEk flatbed and roll-fed machines, Jetrion narrow web press and Cretaprint tile printing devices, displaying the versatility of production that is available from these different technologies.
The company is also hosting its Productivity Software User Days at the show (held in North Gallery Room 8), as well as a series of eight Fiery workshops with sessions that include live demonstrations on how users can save time and money with the company’s innovative expertise.
‘This year’s Ipex reflects the changes in the industry since the event four years ago with the growth in cross media, plus increased reliance and emphasis on cloud-based applications and services,’ stated Paul Cripps, vice president sales, EMEA. ‘Today the dynamic is more keenly concentrated on business efficiency and growing profitability than ever before. EFI has selected its product showing inline with the event’s audience demographic, and we are expecting high levels of interest from print companies of all sizes using every type of production process, from conventional analogue to state of the art devices.’
The need to match colour accurately is addressed with the Fiery implementation of the Pantone Plus Series, which streamlines colour workflows, enabling users to get the right spot colour first time without needing to determine tint values manually. Based on industry-standard ICC profiles for the Pantone Matching System, this feature is coupled with Fiery’s scalable colour management, with EFI being the first to implement a Pantone approved workflow for digital devices. Available to current Fiery users, its built-in colour libraries have now been extended to incorporate the new 84 Pantone colours.
The growth in demand for web-to-print and e-commerce is addressed with Digital StoreFront, a fully scalable solution that integrates with Fiery. Fully customisable, it allows clients and print buyers to order online, edit and preview their job details on a single page and includes powerful VDP technology to add greater versatility to customised orders. Offering advanced flexibility suitable for companies working with dynamic publishing and cross-media options, OPS (Online Print Solutions) provides a unified platform that covers web-to-print storefronts, job submission, personalisation via variable data and retail portals.
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