EFI Launches Its Most Expansive Demonstration of Technology Innovation

September 2007

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FOSTER CITY, CA—Sept. 5, 2007—EFI will showcase its latest generation industry-leading solutions that help customers print to win at Graph Expo (Sept 9-12, Chicago’s McCormick Place). EFI’s breakthrough solutions, which are leading the industry’s progression from analog to digital and increasing customers’ automation efficiency, cost savings, and revenue stream opportunities, will be demonstrated in EFI’s booth 3000 and in partners’, including Canon U.S.A., FUJIFILM Graphic Systems U.S.A., Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A., Oce North America, Inc., the Pitman Company, Ricoh Americas Corp., and Xerox.

Among the newest versions of EFI’s industry-leading solutions to be featured at Graph Expo 2007 are: the next-generation Fiery platform, including a new industrial design; Fiery Central, a powerful, modular, PDF-based production workflow solution; EFI Splash RPX-ii Mac OS X-based workflow solution; MicroPress raster-based color and black and white workflow solution; EFI Color Profiler Suite profiling solution for graphic arts professionals; EFI VUTEk superwide digital inkjet printers, including the VUTEk QS3200 and VUTEk PV200SC UV-curing printers, and EFI VUTEk 3360EC solvent printers; EFI Jetrion industrial inkjet printing systems for label converters, package printers and mail houses; EFI Digital StoreFront web-to-print platform; EFI Bestcolor®-driven proofing and color management wide-format production workflow solutions, Colorproof XF and Fiery XF; and EFI’s advanced print MIS solutions, including Hagen™, Logic™, PSI™ and PrintSmith™.

“Graph Expo is a stellar opportunity for us to meet with a great number of partners, existing and potential new customers, and to showcase our entire product portfolio, designed around the latest technology innovations to make our print customers more competitive, efficient and profitable,” said Guy Gecht, EFI CEO. “In our largest exhibit to date, EFI’s award-winning solutions will be demonstrated in our own booth as well as in partners’ booths throughout the conference. Attendees will experience the power of our product portfolio and connectivity across a variety of third-party solutions shown at Graph Expo - the flexibility and seamless integration that enables their optimal digital print workflow.”

EFI will demonstrate how customers are able to get the most out of their digital print production engine and their people with the next-generation EFI Fiery platform, which won the 2007 BERTL’s Best Award for Innovation. Renowned for its intuitive user experience, the new Fiery platform features powerful a unique Visual Workflow that optimizes productivity by providing job progress at-a-glance, and built in “how-to” guides to address a wide range of operator expertise. In the company’s booth and in partner booths, EFI will highlight Fiery innovation, including: the most open, powerful 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; 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 the service provider; support of the new color specification, Pantone Goe System; the Color Wizard Station (Fiery tools for graphic arts professionals); and Fiery connectivity with Rampage, which enables high-volume prepress production across diverse platesetters, proofing systems, and other output devices. EFI will also showcase the print service providers’ opportunity to benefit from both the low cost of long run lengths offered by offset printing and the flexibility of digital printing, and how the Fiery adds value.

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