EFI closes Printcafe acquisition

BANGALORE: Electronics For Imaging, the world leader in digital imaging solutions, announced that it has completed the acquisition of printcafe, a leading provider of print management information software.

EFI and Printcafe have joined together to promote JDF, the emerging print industry Standard for electronic job ticketing. JDF (Job Definition Format) is an emerging print industry standard for electronic job ticketing, enabling open systems for Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM). The JDF language streamlines information exchange, reducing human error and increasing cost efficiency by tracking essential job information throughout the print cycle regardless of the software applications or presses used.

"We are very excited to promote, how JDF can make Computer Integrated Manufacturing a completely open system that can work with any printer's hardware," said Ghilad Dziesietnik, EFI Vice President of Advanced Workflow. "EFI is committed to promoting and integrating the JDF open standard for electronic job ticketing. With JDF, every printer and every print customer can increase their productivity and cost efficiency by having a print job's 'genetic code' transferred automatically every step of the printing process. What the customer requests then becomes exactly what the output delivers."

"Printcafe is also deeply committed to promoting CIM and we are pleased to show how our Hagen OA software is integrated, using JDF, with both digital and offset workflows," said Marc Olin, CEO of Printcafe.

According to Mr.Atul Saran, Country Head of Indian Operations for EFI, " EFI in India is also working on setting up an engineering team for the PrintCafe product line. "