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News Release from: EFI
Edited by the Printingtalk Editorial
Team on 19 July 2004
EFI And Xerox Collborate On Digital
Print Data
Expanding on their long-term partnership, Xerox Corporation and EFI will collaborate to develop workflows that they believe will help printers improve business operations.
Expanding on their long-term partnership, Xerox Corporation and EFI will collaborate to develop workflows that they believe will help printers improve business operations by streamlining the flow of data between management information systems (MIS) and EFI Fiery-driven digital presses The companies announced their agreement at EFI's Connect 2004 User Conference, a four-day networking and product-training event with more than 800 registered printing professionals, partners and analysts
This article was originally published on Printingtalk on 13 Feb 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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The companies believe that print providers depend on management information systems to manage customer estimates, prioritise jobs, generate invoices and handle the business side of their operations.
Yet, as printers prepare to handle more short-run digital print jobs, more job-related information is being generated from their digital presses.
With information such as job specifications flowing from MIS and job status reports flowing back from digital presses, it is crucial that both systems be fully integrated to keep operations running smoothly, to control costs and to ensure overall productivity.
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"Xerox and EFI will provide integrated workflows that enable customers to maximise returns on their business investments and get the most from both offset and digital equipment," said David Baldaro, production systems group brand manager.
"We will design workflows based on open standards that link Xerox digital presses to a printer's MIS operations to access all the information that is vital to their success," he added.
Both Xerox and EFI are proponents of JDF, the open electronic job-ticketing format developed by the CIP4 industry standards organisation.
The workflows they develop will be based on JDF and will integrate Xerox's Freeflow software and EFI's MIS software such as Hagen OA, providing instant feedback on job status, job completion and final billing.
"Print providers are seeking affordable, open, scaleable and inter-operable workflows from MIS to pre-press to Fiery-driven digital devices that will help them become more competitive and capture new opportunities in on-demand printing and variable-data printing," said Marc Olin, vice president and general manager, EFI Commercial Print Systems.
"Working together with Xerox on these expanded workflow initiatives, we will help printers increase their productivity, reduce their production times and printing costs and offer their customers new services and increased communication," he commented.
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