With the launch of Impress, a brand-new, turnkey EFI Fiery digital front end (DFE), digital printing equipment manufacturers can expand the capabilities of their inkjet presses while significantly reducing development cycle time.
According to EFI, the ready-to-go DFE offers a flexible, complete and scalable workflow solution for a wide range of hardware platforms. As a result, more equipment manufacturers can readily achieve the outstanding imaging quality, automation and productivity.
The new solution, which is available now, gives specialty inkjet equipment vendors with low unit volumes the advantage of incorporating EFI Fiery DFE production and workflow innovations at a reduced development cost.
EFI Fiery vice-president of sales and marketing John Henze said it is the ideal approach to help press manufacturers meet customer needs, get to market quickly, and offer the ability to scale over time.
“This isn’t some RIP trying to be an industrial digital front end. This is the market-leading industrial Fiery DFE taking inkjet printing to the next level and making market adoption easier,” he said.
“In an increasingly competitive inkjet printing field, digital press manufacturers across several industries, as well as inline manufacturing companies, are looking for a way to get to market faster by leveraging reliable, proven, and effective Fiery DFE technology.
“Fiery Impress gives them the best option to incorporate an efficient, effective, and easily customisable workflow.”
The Fiery Impress DFE is also available to manufacturers beyond the digital press market. Industrial businesses in need of a method to implement print bars in their manufacturing lines can incorporate this workflow solution. A streaming configuration option for Fiery Impress provides RIP-while-printing capabilities for continuous, high-volume, variable-data imaging. And, by significantly streamlining the development work needed to implement VDP personalisation, industrial manufacturers can add more value.
Fiery Impress comes standard with Fiery Command WorkStation – an operator interface for digital print job management. It also features seamless integration with the comprehensive set of software products in the Fiery Workflow Suite for efficient production printing workflow, including prepress, colour management, job management, VDP, MIS integration and cloud analytics.
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