RR Donnelley Extends Use of EFI Prograph Planning Software to 27 Plants, Adds Contract Billing Applications.Premier Full-Service Provider of Print and Related Services Uses EFI See UEFI. EFI - Extensible Firmware Interface Job Management and Contract Management Solutions in Magazine, Catalog, Directory and Retail Insert Plants in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. FOSTER CITY, Calif. -- EFI (Nasdaq:EFII EFII Electronics for Imaging Inc (Foster City, CA) ), the world leader in color digital print servers, superwide format printers and inks, and print management solutions, today announced that R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :RRD RRD R.R. Donnelley RRD Round Robin Database (a system to store and display time-series data) RRD Removable Rigid Disk RRD Rhegmatogenous Retinal Detachment RRD Radio Regulatory Department RRD Regimental Reconnaissance Detachment ) will expand its implementation of EFI Prograph[R], bringing the total to 27 facilities using the production planning Production planning The function of a manufacturing enterprise responsible for the efficient planning, scheduling, and coordination of all production activities. system as their magazine, catalog, directory and retail insert manufacturing platform. In addition, RR Donnelley
Prograph offers powerful, comprehensive planning "Comprehensive Plan" is a term used by land use planners to describe a set of goals and policies developed by a municipality to accommodate future growth. Typically the comprehensive plan will look at estimated growth within a specific time period, for example, 20 years. capabilities - including versioning, complex imposition and distribution tools - that allow printers to make more informed business decisions and streamline their production process. "We standardized on Prograph at 14 of our plants two years ago and have been extremely happy with the results, so it was a natural next-step to roll it out to the rest of our facilities," said Dan Knotts, Group President of RR Donnelley. RR Donnelley was also impressed with the new Contract Billing module for Prograph, which allows them to represent long-term contract pricing they have in place with clients, a common practice for publication printers. The system then helps them generate the invoices based on these contracts using the planning data in Prograph. "EFI's approach to building contracts and then applying these for either pro-forma estimates or live invoices was truly revolutionary," said Troy Reed, Group CFO See Chief Financial Officer. of RR Donnelley. "We were impressed enough with their approach that we agreed to partner with them to help finish the application. We will soon go live with the application and expect this to really help streamline our billing process." "Prograph has proven to be a vital business system for the largest printing company in the world, and we're excited to expand its reach within RR Donnelley while adding our new Contract Billing module to their operations," said Marc Olin, senior vice president/general manager, EFI Advanced Professional Print Software (APPS). "RR Donnelley is EFI's largest Prograph installation to date." About EFI EFI (www.efi.com) is the world leader in color digital print servers, superwide format printers and inks, and commercial and enterprise print management solutions. EFI's award-winning solutions, integrated from creation to print, deliver increased performance, cost savings and productivity. The company's robust product portfolio includes Fiery[R] digital color print servers; superwide digital 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. , UV and solvent inks; industrial inkjet printing systems; print production workflow and management information software; and corporate printing solutions. EFI maintains 23 offices worldwide. NOTE TO EDITORS: EFI, Fiery, PrintFlow and Prograph are registered trademarks of Electronics For Imaging, Inc. in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and/or certain other foreign jurisdictions. All other trademarks mentioned in this document are the property of their respective owners. |
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