rom the first Fiery Color Server, Electronics for Imaging (EFI) has set the pace for delivering high-quality, short-run color printing solutions. Introduced in 1991, Fiery turns a standard digital color copier into a networked color printer that produces brilliant, photographic-quality images at a newly affordable price.

The first-of-a-kind system pioneered the market for on-demand, color printing. Among demanding pre-press professionals, "Fiery prints" quickly became the standard for high-quality color output.

Today, the revolution in electronic commerce and communications on the Internet is filled with digital color images and documents. Corporate offices expect colorful presentations and persuasive proposals. Graphic design and creative professionals keep raising their standards for accurate, consistent color. And print-for-pay services remain on the look-out for new technology to give them a competitive edge.

In response, EFI extends the Fiery family with solutions sophisticated enough for high-end print production and affordable enough for the office desktop. Each product bears the Fiery hallmarks of speed, ease, and brilliance, as EFI continues to deliver the power of accessible, high-quality color printing to more people, everywhere.

rom the desktop to the print shop, the Fiery family leads the way in short-run, color printing solutions. Fiery's unique scalable technology brings the same unsurpassed speed, ease of use, and brilliant results to desktop laser printers, color copiers, digital presses and wide-format plotters alike. Better yet, the technology anticipates your changing needs and ensures that all members of the Fiery family can be upgraded as printing needs grow. The result: Fiery breaks price-performance records in a broad range of color printing environments.

The Fiery XJ+ Color Servers meet intensive color printing needs ranging from complex images on one page to multi-page documents. They are the mainstay of design studios and service bureaus as well as print-for-pay businesses.

For the demands of the corporate office, look for Fiery inside color laser printers and the color copier. Fiery Driven output devices take color printing to the desktop via an embedded controller and represent the most affordable members of the Fiery family.

For commercial printers and corporate, in-house printing departments, high-end Fiery XJ+ Color Servers can run high-speed, on-demand heavy production devices at their full capacity. The Fiery XJ+ is the first color server to exploit all the capabilities of the new generation of high-performance color copiers.

No wonder Fiery Color Servers dominate the color copier market and are offered by major color copier manufacturers.

mong short-run color printing solutions, Fiery is the fastest available. That's because EFI optimizes the operation of Fiery's unique architecture and software to maximize throughput for a particular output device--to take full advantage of the device's capabilities.

For a creative artist, that means brilliant proofs to review in minutes. For a corporate employee, no more wasting time waiting in long production queues. If you're a print-for pay business, Fiery's speed lets you provide more service in less time.

Fiery's phenomenal speed comes from custom ASICs--Fiery XJ+ RipChips™--that off-load all data movement from the main CPU. They free the CPU itself to focus exclusively on Adobe™ PostScript processing. A multitasking real-time operating system ensures uncompromised responsiveness.

Innovative printing technologies further boost throughput. Rip-While-Print™ allows new pages to print while subsequent pages are being processed. And Continuous Print™ eliminates the 10 to 30 second delay when print engines otherwise cycle down between pages.

The result is the fastest document printing time in the industry and unparalleled color printing productivity.

rom one Fiery to the next, you'll find a strong family resemblance in their ease of use and consistent interface. EFI engineered Fiery to be extraordinarily simple to network and equipped every Fiery with a common suite of color and job management utilities.

Whether your network printing environment has many users or a few, every member of the Fiery family is network-ready on Macintosh, PC, and UNIX systems. Fiery is compatible with AppleTalk, TCP/IP, and Novell IPX protocols simultaneously, and can automatically switch among them.

Every Fiery has a full set of color tools that put you in complete control of color quality--including tools such as the Fiery XJ Print Calibrator™. Every Fiery offers job management utilities that give you instant feedback and flexible control to handle continually changing demands. The Fiery XJ Spooler, for example, lets you track jobs, reprint them, alter the order of jobs to be printed, even cancel processing and printing to reduce waste. You can quickly access information for job accounting and usage, then export the data into your company's spreadsheet or database package.

Because every Fiery offers these features, you only need to know one to know how to operate them all. The Fiery family lets you achieve consistent, high-quality color from any application or workstation on any supported output device.

rint vibrant color transparencies and audience handouts minutes before a presentation. Scan in photographs directly from a color copier. Produce realistic and reliable color mock-ups of package designs and advertisements. Generate photographic-quality page proofs for color previewing before going to film.

Brilliant color comes from brilliant engineering. Fiery follows the industry-standard approach to color management by supplying ICC profiles. Intelligent conveniences free your creativity and save time and resources. AutoCal™, for example, lets you target the best tonal range for output by using a copier's scanning function instead of a separate densitometer for calibrations.

To the color solutions that have made Fiery quality an industry standard, EFI adds support for SWOP, Euroscale and DIC calibration goals to bring Fiery color even closer to offset print standards. Some Fiery models even support overprinting and trapping commands in popular graphics and layout applications so you can view these results before going to press.

Ultimately, the brilliance of EFI's complete color printing solution lies in letting your work shine.

he outcome is obvious: combine Fiery's speed, ease, and brilliance, and you can raise your image and productivity.

If you're a print-for-pay business, faster processing and printing can shorten turnaround times and help you serve more customers in a work day. If you're a creative design agency, greater color accuracy can accelerate design and production, speed up client approvals, and eliminate costly tweaking and reworks.

Fiery Driven desktop color laser printers enable corporate offices to produce high-quality color with in-house resources, without color specialists or a time-consuming learning curve. Commercial printers and corporate printing departments can make short-run, color document printing, practical and affordable on high-performance copiers and digital presses.

In the fast-changing world of electronics and expectations, EFI continues to set the pace for delivering on-demand, premium-quality color printing solutions that give you the edge in productivity.

ith the new spectrum of Fiery models, the choice of printing solutions is clearly no longer "black and white." Engineered from the ground up to deliver unrivaled speed, ease of use, and brilliance, there is a Fiery for every need--from the desktop to the print shop.

As your business grows, Fiery's unique scalable architecture ensures that your Fiery can be upgraded to grow with you.

Our vision is to bring high-quality, short-run color printing to everyone, everywhere ... any time. There will always be a Fiery in your future.

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