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EFI launches most "robust" Fiery System to date

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EFI has launched the latest iteration of its Fiery digital front end, which the company claimed to offer more accurate and consistent colour and improved variable-data capabilities.

Fiery System 10, which is available now, features a new job-based calibration tool that customises calibration for each individual job, based on the associated media and profiles.

Fiery Calibrator also incorporates a tool named 'Calibration Guard', which provides calibration status, warnings, and alerts to highlight calibration issues.

Fiery 10 will also ship with Fiery Image Enhance Visual Editor (IEVE), which enables users to edit individual images in a job without having to go back to the native design file, with manual controls for changing brightness, contrast, highlights, shadows, colour balance, sharpness and adding red-eye correction, as well as an automated per-image optimisation tool.
 
Fiery IEVE was launched in EFI's Fiery Command WorkStation v5.3, which ships with Fiery System 10; the tool also allows users to save settings as presets for further images.

Elsewhere, the latest version has a number of improved Variable Data Print (VDP) features such as support for PDF/VT-1. The new standard fits into existing PDF-based prepress operations and enables a single, common PDF print production workflow for all job types.

EFI has also pitched the new system at corporate environments with multifunction printers (MFPs) driven by the Fiery system. Version 10 features Wi-Fi support to allow for wireless printing from Apple iOS devices.

Toby Weiss, general manager of the Fiery business unit and senior vice president of EFI, said System 10 was "the fastest, most robust ever".

"Fiery technology is now the most integrated platform in the industry, with connectivity to business process automation solutions, production workflow systems, and direct mobile printing to deliver a complete solution from creation to print," he added.

EFI said that Fiery 10 expanded on its integration capability with Agfa's Apogee and Kodak's Prinergy workflows, enabling users to manage and submit jobs to one or more Fiery-controlled print engines direct from their workflow.

The first OEM printer brands using Fiery System 10 are expected to be announced shortly.

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