EFI Announces 'EFI Designer Edition 4.0' for HP as an Option for the New HP Designjet 30 and HP Designjet 130 Series Printers.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers FOSTER CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 17, 2004 EFI See UEFI. EFI - Extensible Firmware Interface (Nasdaq:EFII EFII Electronics for Imaging Inc (Foster City, CA) ), the world leader in digital imaging and print management solutions for commercial and enterprise printing, announced today the availability of EFI Designer Edition(TM) 4.0 for HP, an upgraded version of EFI's powerful proofing software and option for the new HP Designjet 30 and HP Designjet 130 series multi-format desktop inkjet printers A printer that propels droplets of ink directly onto the medium. Today, almost all inkjet printers produce color. Low-end inkjets use three ink colors (cyan, magenta and yellow), but produce a composite black that is often muddy. . EFI Designer Edition for HP 4.0 is compatible across platforms, providing greater flexibility for both Mac OS X and Windows end users. Additional support for the HP remote proofing format, RPF RPF renal plasma flow. RPF renal plasma flow. 2.0 and HP CMYK (Cyan Magenta Yellow blacK) The color space used for commercial printing and most color computer printers. In theory, cyan, magenta and yellow (CMY) can print all colors, but inks are not pure and black comes out muddy. Plus colour technology are also included. The new EFI Designer Edition support produces greater consistency and superior colour quality for traditional offset presses without the need for manual intervention in the original source files. Thorsten Breiding, VP & General Manager, EFI Proofing Technology adds, "We are delighted to collaborate with a leader in the printing industry to deliver innovative solutions to creative, graphic arts graphic arts: see aquatint; drawing; drypoint; engraving; etching; illustration; linoleum block printing; lithography; mezzotint; niello; pastel; poster; silk-screen printing; silhouette; silverpoint; sketch; stencil; woodcut and wood engraving. professionals. The EFI Designer Edition support combined with the Designjet printers are two of many products we hope to bring to the industry with HP that delivers cost-effective tools to demanding end-users." The new HP Designjet printers, combined with the enhanced proofing software, enable graphic designers, prepress customers and professional photographers to produce superior-quality, colour accurate contract proofs quickly and easily. In addition, the HP Designjet 30 and HP Designjet 130 series printers feature automatic closed-loop colour calibration technology, with a built-in colour sensor that works with HP printheads and inks to provide consistency from print to print and printer to printer. "By combining EFI's technical expertise in the digital proofing Preparing a sample of printed output on a computer printer before the job is printed on a commercial press. Contrast with Matchprint and soft proofing. market with HP's professional range of desktop inkjet printers, we are offering our customers the ability to generate high-quality accurate proofs with assured colour consistency," says Ana Izquierdo, marketing manager, Imaging and Printing Group, HP. "EFI has successfully integrated new color technologies into their products in order to provide our customers with accurate and consistent colors, a radically simple printing experience and outstanding output." EFI Designer Edition for HP 4.0 comprises an intuitive, easy-to-use interface and an Adobe PostScript 3 engine (Adobe CPSI CPSI Computer Programs & Systems, Inc. (Mobile, Alabama) CPSI Creative Problem Solving Institute CPSI Certified Playground Safety Inspector CPSI cells per square inch CPSI Configurable PostScript Interpreter ). It offers PDF/X support, a nesting function, and selectable RIP resolutions. EFI Designer Edition for HP combined with the HP Designjet 30 and HP Designjet 130 series printers, recently has been awarded SWOP(R) certification in recognition of the combined solutions' ability to match SWOP certified See certification. press proofs that can be used in the production of publications. The new Adobe CPSI Interpreter supports in-RIP separation, overprinting, and handling of 2-byte fonts via a font-download facility. It easily integrates special colors defined in Lab or CMYK and is compatible with market standards such as Pantone(R), HKS HKS Harvard Kennedy School (John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University; Cambridge, MA) HKS Hrvatski Košarkaški Savez (Croatian Basketball Federation) HKS Silver Hake HKS Hong Kong Standard and Toyo. EFI Designer Edition for HP 4.0 will be available as an option for the HP Designjet 30 and HP Designjet 130 series printers from June 1, 2004. About EFI EFI (http://www.efi.com, NASDAQ: EFII) is the world leader in digital imaging and print management solutions for commercial and enterprise printing. EFI's award-winning technologies offer document management tools from creation to print, including high-fidelity color and black-and-white Fiery(R) print servers that can output up to 2000 ppm (Pages Per Minute) The measurement of printer speed. See gppm. PPM - Portable Pixmap ; powerful production workflow and print management information software solutions for increased performance and cost efficiency; and an array of business-critical enterprise and mobile printing solutions. EFI maintains 25 offices worldwide. Note to Editors: EFI and Fiery are registered trademarks of Electronics For Imaging, Inc. in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and/or certain other foreign jurisdictions. EFI Designer Edition and EFI Photo Edition are trademarks of Electronics For Imaging, Inc. All other trademarks mentioned in this document are the property of their respective owners. |
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