EFI unveils variable lines

Electronics For Imaging (EFI) unveiled a raft of new products this week including a version of its Velocity Balance workflow that can drive non-Fiery printers.

New modules allow it to interface with Xeroxs DocuSP front-end, which controls the DocuTech, and the Heidelberg Digimaster 9110, including Canon and IBM OEM versions.

EFI also showed its Velocity OneFlow front-end driving a Presstek platesetter, a concept first announced at Ipex. There is already a beta site in the UK.

EFI is developing a version of its Fiery server that can output colour variable data at 2,000 A4 ppm.

Through a development agreement with Scitex Digital Printing (SDP) it will provide a version of the Fiery to drive its Versamark Business Color Press.

EFI sees it as a coup over rival Creo, which has dominated the market for high-speed colour variable data workflow.