Electronics For Imaging, Inc (EFI) and Konica Minolta Business Solutions Europe have expanded their partnership to make it easier for customers to produce professional colour prints in-house. The Konica Minolta® AccurioPrint® C750i series is driven by the EFI™ Fiery IC-420 v2 digital front end (DFE) on the latest Fiery® FS500 platform.
This delivers productivity gains and gives users simple, intuitive tools to print professional quality and personalised documents quickly, efficiently and cost-effectively in the office environment or workplace.
The DFE features intuitive Fiery TrueBrand Technology™, a powerful new feature that solves one of the biggest challenges in office printing: accurate, consistent reproduction of corporate colours in Microsoft® Office applications.
"We are offering our customers even more possibilities through our long-standing collaboration with EFI and this exceptional new Fiery DFE," said Cord Hashemian, Portfolio Manager Professional Printing, Konica Minolta Business Solutions Germany. "Together, EFI and Konica Minolta are bringing innovations to market that add value to customers' daily work. Especially with the first-ever implementation of Fiery TrueBrand - an easy-to-use tool that provides an essential solution for maintaining corporate brand identity in general office documents. Fiery makes it quick and easy to create great-looking colour prints. This includes the ability to print large or complex PowerPoint® files and colour-critical PDFs accurately and quickly. "
In addition, users can easily work with the new Fiery IC-420 v2:
Print accurate house colours from Microsoft Office applications with just a few clicks using Fiery TrueBrand, without the need for advanced colour skills.
Increase productivity by printing common business documents in just a few clicks with the Fiery Essential Driver. You'll spend less time printing files and more time doing your job.
Print professionally designed documents in-house without being a prepress expert. The Fiery JobExpert™ option detects design elements such as transparencies, overprints, spot colours and embedded profiles and automatically applies the correct print settings so your printed output is always accurate.
With Fiery VUE, you can quickly and easily create finished printed materials, such as combining multiple files into a brochure.
Print personalised documents without outsourcing design or printing costs, and respond faster to market and sales demands for effective communications materials with Fiery FreeForm™ Create - an intuitive, free, award-winning VDP application.
Make the best impression on printed documents with Fiery Edge™, the latest colour profiling technology that delivers instant colour and quality improvements.
In addition to the operational enhancements that come with the new Fiery FS500 DFE platform, customers benefit from the streamlined and efficient control and management features of the latest version 6.7 of Fiery Command WorkStation®. This is the industry's most widely used digital print job management interface.
"The new IC-420 v2 DFE includes many additional productivity tools that enable business users to create professional-looking documents of all types, from newsletters and flyers to brochures, personalised communications and more," said John Henze, vice president of sales and marketing, EFI Fiery. "We've leveraged our extensive technology innovations and digital printing expertise to create a powerful, intuitive solution that allows office and enterprise customers to bring printing back in-house. In this way, customers can reduce costs associated with outsourcing and increase productivity, while increasing flexibility and schedule control."
