AlphaGraphics selects award winning EFI Color Management Suite

EFI and AlphaGraphics have agreed to add another EFI product to AlphaGraphics' select list of preferred solutions.

This strategic relationship with EFI supports AlphaGraphics' business objective of delivering high value and setting the standard in visual communications technology. The company's Technology Assessment Group executes a rigorous screening and testing process to determine which solutions AlphaGraphics will recommend to its franchises to ensure that they incorporate only products that will help them succeed.

"EFI continually supports AlphaGraphics with technology innovation designed to increase automation, efficiency and cost savings for our owner-operated, locally based business centers," said Darnell Ghidotti, vice president, Business Solutions, AlphaGraphics.

"Adding to our arsenal of EFI solutions, Color Profiler Suite gives AlphaGraphics superior color management tools which help graphic arts professionals create, visualize, test and edit color profiles with a single profiling solution."

AlphaGraphics will standardize on EFI Color Profiler Suite color management workflow solution across its more than 250 franchises, joining AlphaGraphics standardization on EFI Fiery color digital print servers with connectivity to PrintSmith, an EFI Print MIS solution. Awarded a Graph Expo 2006 Must See Em at its launch, Color Profiler Suite provides integrated color management tools that deliver total color quality control in the color printing workflow for AlphaGraphics graphic design team members.

Color Profiler Suite allows graphic arts professionals to build customizable ICC (the International Color Consortium standard) profiles of the highest quality and reliability.

Ensuring integration into each AlphaGraphics business center's overall workflow, Color Profiler Suite offers absolute synergy with EFI server technology, streamlining colour management processes which ensures accuracy, predictability and substantially enhances the user experience.

Via the EFI Fiery JDF Connector, AlphaGraphics' Fiery-driven digital output devices integrate with EFI PrintSmith, providing a more accurate, more efficient production workflow, from capturing the designer's original intent to real-time estimating, accounting and billing, to producing brilliant digital output. Further, EFI's compliance with GRACoL, CGATS, ICC, JDF, PDF, PPML and other open standards, and EFI's collaborations with leading native pre-press workflow providers ensure that EFI solutions readily integrate into AlphaGraphics business centres' respective workflows and will grow with them."

"Continually engaging with customers is an EFI business tenet, and we've worked closely with AlphaGraphics to understand their evolving challenges and needs," said Mehran Farimani, senior vice president and general manager, Fiery products, EFI. "Their choice of Fiery servers, our PrintSmith Print MIS solution, and now Color Profiler Suite as AlphaGraphics preferred solutions is testament that we're delivering the innovative solutions that enable our customers to thrive in a dynamic market."

About AlphaGraphics
AlphaGraphics plans, produces and manages visual communications for businesses at more than 250 owner-operated, based business centers worldwide.

About EFI
EFI is the world leader in color digital print servers, superwide format printers and inks, and commercial and enterprise print management solutions.