Graphix Supply World, leading supplier to the print and graphics industry, recommends the EFI Fiery® platform for grand-format RIP, enabling print service providers and graphic arts professionals to use their machines as proofing devices, not just printing devices.
Unique in the industry, the EFI Fiery® platform combines RIP (raster image processing) and digital output device calibration, which ensures customers that their complete printing system is PANTONE® Goe™ System calibrated. This calibration delivers the most accurate colour possible, tailored to specific print devices and media.
With EFI Fiery® XF, banners, posters, signs and vehicle wraps achieve a new dimension in colour. Powered by Bestcolor® Technology and based on industryleading Colorproof™ XF, Fiery XF allows your aqueous, solvent, eco-solvent or UV printers to produce the most accurate and vibrant colours in the industry. The solution’s fast RIP speed also produces the best performance in all major printers including: VUTEK, HP, Epson, Canon, Mimaki, Mutoh Roland and others. Its automated workflow allows your shop to handle high volume production with tight turnaround schedules. In addition, Fiery XF comes in three configurations to match all your business needs and employees’ skill level. The major benefits of Fiery XF are superior colour and colour management: you can produce vibrant colours easily and quickly with industry-leading colour management tools. Intelligent Clean Colours and Full Gamut colour profiles address the specific colour needs of the large and superwide format production markets, so you can produce high quality, eye-catching images with consistent colour output that comes to life, regardless of the printing device. With its modular structure and ability to integrate with other EFI products, Fiery XF provides the flexibility to grow as your business expands, and provides a greater return on investment.
By seamlessly integrating with Adobe CPSI, you can directly process images based on Adobe Postscript Level 3 (PS 3) to ensure correct interpretation of transparencies and over-prints, saving you precious time and greatly reducing scrap and production errors, enabling you to increase your capabilities.
The intuitive Fiery XF is easy to use, so it requires little or nooperator training, regardless of your staff’s skill level. “Fiery XFWizards” eliminate guesswork and guide operators with stepby-step screen instructions for simple and quick creation oroptimisation of media profiles.
The Fiery XF Spot Colour Option reproduces spot coloursdigitally by maximizing and fully utilising your printer’scolour space to ensure spot colour accuracy and consistency,resulting in profit from advanced spot colour management.The solution provides a complete cross platform application,so you can work on either a Windows or Mac computer,enhancing your comfort level. The cross platform Windows®and Mac® client is already included in the standard bundle,saving you money. The XF server for Mac® is part of theproofing option.
Fiery XF processes various jobs at the same time with realtime,multi-tasking capabilities, enabling you to print andprofile simultaneously, easily and quickly.The cost-effective RIP comes with a full set of productiontools such as Tiling, Nesting, Step & Repeat, and many others,enhancing your productivity.
Fiery XF’s unique Nesting feature allows simultaneousprinting of various files, formats and colour spaces. Jobscan be processed manually or automatically based on yourproduction requirements. With the intuitive Online Updater,getting access to the latest releases, media profiles, printerdrivers, service packs and fixes are quick and easy, making iteasy to update.
EFI Fiery XF provides leading-edge technology forsuper-wide format printing for production and proofingrequirements, delivering high-speed processing, exceptionalcolour quality and increased productivity. At drupa08, MimakiEngineering Co. Ltd., leading manufacturer of wide-formatinkjet printers and cutting machines for the sign/graphics,industrial and textile/apparel markets announced that theaward-winning JV33 series will be driven by the EFI Fiery®platform. – BIG
