Prepress
EFI Achieves Further Landmark as 500,000th EFI Fiery in Europe Goes to MultiCopy
Friday 18. January 2008 - Europe's Leading Source for Printing, Copying, Finishing and Web-to-Print Solutions Chooses Fiery Server for Second Canon imagePress C7000VP Digital Production Press
EFI (Nasdaq: EFII), the world leader in customer-focused digital printing innovation, today announced that MultiCopy, a printing and document management company based in Amsterdam, has purchased the 500,000th EFI Fiery shipped to a European customer. More than one and a half million Fierys have been sold worldwide. Owned by Franchise Services, Inc., MultiCopy has 80 centres in the Netherlands and is linked, via a digital network, to Sir Speedy and PIP centres around the globe. Offering innovative print services to over 40,000 small and medium sized businesses, MultiCopy has chosen a Canon imagePRESS A3000 server, a Fiery that delivers the optimal speed, quality, and reliability for their new Canon imagePRESS C7000VP (up to 70 pages per minute) digital press.
The powerful Fiery server delivers precision colour, consistent high quality output, powerful variable data printing capabilities, seamless integration with EFI’s web-to-print, proofing, workflow and Print MIS solutions, and connectivity to all popular pre-press applications – to meet MultiCopys growing production requirements, which are being fuelled by customers increased demand for colour printing. The Canon imagePRESS C7000VP is the seventh such machine to be added to MultiCopys portfolio of Xerox, Konica-Minolta, Océ and Canon printers in the past nine months; the first was the first Canon imagePRESS C7000VP to be installed in the Netherlands, in May 2007.
Gerald Slot, Managing Director MultiCopy Netherlands, said: “Were delighted to be the recipients of this milestone Fiery in Europe. For each of the last four years, weve achieved double digit growth by exploiting the increased demand for colour printing and by supplying outstanding quality product and customer service. We were so impressed with the combined performance of our first imagePRESS C7000VP and Fiery server for colour applications, including large web-to-print European literature projects, that, when we came to consider the purchase of another colour production system, the decision to go with a further Fiery-driven imagePress C7000VP was an easy one.
“The Fiery servers ensure that the Canon imagePRESS C7000VP digital presses run as efficiently as possible and that the overall quality and consistency of output remain at optimal levels. Fitting perfectly into our production environment, the Fiery servers also make the Canon imagePRESS C7000VP a high-performance VDP solution, allowing us to take advantage of potentially lucrative personalized printing business opportunities.”
“When customers choose a Fiery server, they are assured of industry-leading colour management, consistent high quality output and workflow innovation, and its clear that MultiCopy is maximising these EFI benefits to print to win,” said Paul Cripps, Vice President EMEA of EFI. “The combination of Fiery power, its seamless integration with EFI Print MIS solutions and on demand workflow, and connectivity to prepress applications will continue to help MultiCopy to raise their productivity and profitability.”
The Fiery offers the industrys most open, powerful variable data printing (VDP) workflow capability, including support of VDP languages Fiery FreeForm, industry standard PPML, and a host of legacy proprietary languages and collaborations with the leading VDP software vendors.
Designed expressly to drive the Canon imagePRESS C7000VP digital press, the Canon imagePRESS A3000 server is based on EFI’s highest server class, the Fiery Q Series, and comes standard with EFI’s most advanced production tools to provide consistently precise colour, high quality, sophisticated workflow and advanced connectivity and to eliminate labour-intensive activities. Offering WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) job composition and imposition tools, the Fiery server also includes Fiery Smart RIP, a software architecture that combines intelligent processing with the efficient utilisation of the Canon imagePRESS C7000VP. Fiery Smart RIP significantly accelerates RIPping performance, enabling the fastest possible processing speeds on the Canon imagePRESS C7000VP.
The Fiery server also features full compliance with PDF-X3, a specification for reliable prepress data interchange that enables designers to provide digital content files that can be printed predictably and correctly by MultiCopy, and the recently added support of the new colour specification, Pantone Goe System to EFIs already impressive list of Pantone colour libraries.