The global MIS referral agreement expands on Océ's existing partnership with EFI for its Fiery digital front end.

Crit Driessen, vice president of marketing and strategy at Océ, said: "With this agreement, we continue to enhance our ability to ensure we are providing leading edge, end-to-end solutions to our global customer base."

EFI Advanced Professional Print Software general manager Marc Olin said the referral deal would allow EFI's MIS products to reach a broader customer base in "many new markets".

"We're confident that Océ's customers will realise huge gains in productivity and profits with our Pace and Monarch systems," he added.

EFI Pace is aimed at SME commercial print shops, specialty and wide-format companies, while EFI Monarch has multi-company, multi-language and multi-currency capabilities and is aimed at larger multi-site organisations.