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, said EFI.
The new Fiery Impress DFE offers a scalable solution accessible to inkjet press manufacturers and inline manufacturers of all sizes and across multiple industries.
“This affordable, ready-to-go DFE offers a flexible, complete and scalable workflow solution for a wide range of hardware platforms,” EFI said. “Now, many more equipment manufacturers can readily achieve the outstanding imaging quality, automation and productivity that make Fiery the world’s leading DFE choice for digital print.
Available now, the new solution gives specialty inkjet equipment vendors with low unit volumes the advantage of incorporating top-tier EFI Fiery DFE production and workflow innovations at a reduced development cost. It is the ideal approach to help press manufacturers meet customer needs, get to market quickly, and offer the ability to scale over time.
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| "Taking inkjet printing to the next level": John Henze, EFI |
“This isn’t some RIP trying to be an industrial digital front end,” said EFI Fiery VP of Sales and Marketing John Henze. “This is the market-leading industrial Fiery DFE taking inkjet printing to the next level and making market adoption easier.
“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,” he added. “Fiery Impress gives them the best option to incorporate an efficient, effective, and easily customizable workflow.”
EFI Fiery DFEs are widely used on inkjet presses for commercial printing, packaging, textiles, display graphics, building materials and more. This new solution makes Fiery technology – the premier DFE in digital print – available in a turnkey offering that can get an even broader range of inkjet press manufacturers up and running almost immediately, with full implementation in weeks, not months.
A complete workflow solution
Fiery Impress comes standard with Fiery Command WorkStation – "the #1 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.
“Fiery solutions continue to lead the analogue-to-digital transition, as they have done for over 30 years, offering breakthrough technologies to assist customers through their digital journey,” said EFI. “With more than two million servers installed around the globe, print professionals trust and rely on Fiery DFEs every day for the fastest performance, best colour, and the most complete digital printing workflow."
For more information about EFI Fiery Impress and other digital printing products and services from EFI, visit www.efi.com. The EFI Fiery Impress brochure is available for download.
