EFI Receives Three BERTL’s Best Awards,
Dominates Solutions Category
-- Color Management, Production Workflow and Digital Document Solutions
Receive Best in Class Industry Recognition --
Foster City, CA -- June 2, 2009 -- EFI (Nasdaq: EFII), the world leader in customer-focused digital printing innovation, today announced it has received three BERTL's Best Awards in the solutions category, more than any other recognized company. Based on stringent evaluation of feature set, functionality, performance, and overall business process value, BERTL® recognized EFI Fiery® XF as the “best color management solution for wide format,” EFI Fiery Central as “best modular production workflow solution,” and EFI SendMe™ as “best document portal corporate office solution.”
“As part of our 14th annual awards, BERTL is very pleased to recognize EFI with these well-deserved accolades. BERTL analysts are clearly impressed with EFI’s product breadth and expertise in the solutions marketplace,” said Margie Davis, managing director of BERTL.
“Receiving these awards from one of the top print industry analyst firms is very rewarding, and gives us added incentive to continue creating the most powerful solutions possible for our customers and partners,” said Ghilad Dziesietnik, chief technology officer at EFI. “EFI is committed to helping our customers succeed with innovative technologies and new capabilities that drive their increased competitiveness, productivity and profitability.”
EFI Fiery XF – Best Color Management Solution for Wide Format
EFI Fiery XF is the color management solution for superwide and wide-format printers, enabling customers to achieve a new dimension in color quality and productivity on banners, posters, signs and vehicle wraps. Powered by Bestcolor® Technology, Fiery XF allows printing devices to produce the most accurate and vibrant colors. The solution’s automated workflow also maximizes a customer’s investment because it improves output quality and reduces production times. Available in three configurations to match any business need, the fast RIP achieves the best performance and speed for most of the major solvent, eco-solvent and UV printers from VUTEk®, Rastek™, HP, Epson, Canon, Mimaki, Mutoh and Roland.
EFI Fiery Central – Best Modular Production Workflow Solution
EFI Fiery Central is a PDF-based production workflow solution that enables print service providers to increase operator efficiency, reduce waste, and decrease turn-around times through advanced make-ready, load balancing, engine optimization and workflow automation tools. With Fiery Central, medium to high-volume print on demand environments – such as corporate reprographic departments (CRD), print for pay, and commercial printers – can produce more jobs with fewer mistakes by automating common tasks, while also maximizing their printer investment.
EFI SendMe – Best Document Portal Corporate Office Solution
EFI SendMe is a powerful digital document capture, edit and distribution solution. It is ideal for corporate enterprises such as financial services, insurance, healthcare, higher education, and legal services that handle sensitive hard copy documentation, enabling easy archive and retrieval while providing for a high level of security. With EFI SendMe, any file can be captured and quickly converted into a Microsoft® Word, Microsoft Excel, or Adobe® PDF file for editing, reformatting, archiving or distribution. This powerful functionality eliminates the need to re-type documents that are only available in paper format, saving time, physical storage space and resources while helping to create a greener office environment. EFI SendMe has over 80 connectors developed and supported by EFI to enable interoperability with leading document management, cost recovery, fax-imaging software and other applications. The solution also provides state-of-the-art security measures and powerful sender authentication and audit trail features to help ensure compliance with federal regulations.
More information on these products is available at www.efi.com or by calling 800-875-7117.
About BERTL
BERTL® Inc. is the source for objective, independent product evaluation reports and comparative analyses on digital imaging devices and workflow solutions. BERTL's evaluation reports, customer satisfaction research, awards and product ratings are undertaken entirely at BERTL's expense for the benefit of its international subscriber base.
At all times, BERTL's primary focus is the end user. Covering all major digital imaging manufacturers, BERTL publishes the world's most extensive Web site of evaluation reports, comparisons data, vertical market research, news and more on copiers, printers, MFPs, production and workgroup scanners, fax machines, color and production equipment and wide format devices. BERTL reports, research and other industry informative services are available in a range of specialized subscription services. To learn more about BERTL, visit www.BERTL.com or telephone 1-973-882-0200.
About EFI
EFI (www.efi.com) is the world leader in customer-focused digital printing innovation. EFI's award-winning solutions, integrated from creation to print, deliver increased performance, cost savings and productivity. The company's robust product portfolio includes Fiery® digital color print servers; VUTEk® superwide digital inkjet printers, UV and solvent inks; Rastek™ UV wide-format inkjet printers; Jetrion® industrial inkjet printing systems; print production workflow and management information software; and corporate printing solutions. EFI maintains 23 offices worldwide.
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NOTE TO EDITORS: EFI, Fiery, VUTEk, and Jetrion are registered trademarks of Electronics For Imaging, Inc. in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and/or certain other foreign jurisdictions. Rastek and SendMe are trademarks of Electronics For Imaging, Inc. All other trademarks mentioned in this document are the property of their respective owners.
Nothing herein should be construed as a warranty in addition to the express warranty statements provided with EFI products and services.
This news release contains forward-looking statements, that are statements other than statements of historical fact including words such as “anticipate”, “believe”, “estimate”, “expect”, “consider”, “plan” and similar, any statements related to strategies or objectives of management for future operations, products, development, performance, any statements of assumptions or underlying any of the foregoing and any statements in the future tense. Forward-looking statements are subject to certain risks and uncertainties that could cause our actual or future results to differ materially. For further information regarding risks and uncertainties associated with EFI’s businesses, please refer to the risk factors section in the Company’s SEC filings, including, but not limited to, its annual report on Form 10-K and its quarterly reports on Form 10-Q.
EFI undertakes no obligation to update information contained herein, including forward-looking statements.
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