Fiery System 9 Delivers High Return on Investment
In a product analysis from IT Enquirer titled “EFI™ Fiery® System 9 Release 2 RIP,” the group’s findings demonstrate that Fiery System 9 Release 2 delivers a high return on investment. The report states that the system enables print companies to create new revenue streams by allowing them to deliver printing capabilities that were previously only possible using traditional analog printing. Best yet, people of various skill levels can use the system’s features and get professional results. This article gives a high-level overview of the report’s findings and explains how these features add value to your businesses.
Read the entire IT-Enquirer report for their complete review of Fiery System 9 Release 2.
High-Performance Fiery Technology Means More Work Can be Produced
In today’s competitive landscape, speed and power in a RIP make a big difference in meeting tight customer deadlines and high expectations. The IT Enquirer report shows that Fiery excels at both. It calls the Fiery RIP, “a true RIPping powerhouse that has been optimized…to process files in minutes versus other systems that take at least 30 minutes.” When files take less time to process, businesses’ productivity increases and fewer deadlines are missed.
High-Quality Color Is Possible from Anyone with Fiery Technology
The skill level of people involved in document preparation and production vary from beginner to expert. According to the report, Fiery RIPs make producing high quality color easy because it does not require an operator to have a degree in color management.
The report highlighted two features to demonstrate this point:
- “Fiery Command WorkStation® gives access to basic and advanced color management features in several locations across an intuitive user interface (e.g., Job Properties panel, the paper catalogue and the calibration tool).”
- Fiery Spot-On, which produces repeatable, precise spot and substitute colors, enables the automation of the spot color process thus ensuring accuracy regardless of the job complexity – even with mixed media. This accuracy saves businesses money by decreasing waste.
Fiery Technology Makes High Image Quality Obtainable with Minimal Effort
In quick printing, print-for-pay shops and in-plant commercial reprographics departments, good image quality is essential, even if the photos taken are less than perfect. According to the report, Fiery technology excels in this area because of the Image Enhance feature in Fiery Command WorkStation. This feature automatically improves exposure, color cast, shadows and highlights, sharpness, and performs red-eye reduction. Best yet, the feature is automatic, so there is no need to set parameters to get a decent result, and it saves businesses time because under-optimized images don’t need to be sent back to the originator for re-touching before RIPping anymore.
Wide-Array of Integrated Output Options Differentiates Fiery Technology
Fiery System 9 Release 2 comes with an impressive set of output options and customization capabilities that all work together seamlessly to deliver professional-looking, finished documents – regardless of their complexity. These features include its own paper catalogue, font libraries (e.g., Postscript and PCL fonts), and an imposition system (Fiery SeeQuence Suite).
Advanced Workflow Integration Ensures Additional Functionality
According to the report, one of the biggest advantages of Fiery technology is its integration with Adobe® applications – especially when it comes to the Postscript capabilities or the Adobe PDF Printing Engine (APPE).
The tight integration with APPE enables a native end-to-end PDF workflow with collaborative review, approval, soft proofing and hard proofing, and archiving. It also reduces unwanted surprises and last-minute prepress changes, along with guaranteeing that complex designs and effects, including variable data printing elements, are efficiently and reliably produced.
Fiery System 9 Release 2 also provides JDF control for device-dependent processes, such as color management, trapping, and imposition, so operators can quickly accommodate last-minute changes and easily configure printing jobs for various types of devices and presses by unlinking content from the process.
By supporting APPE and JDF in tandem, the Fiery RIP also enables users to set up a PDF workflow for Variable Data Publishing (VDP), in which speed and simplicity are critical for jobs that require personalized printing.
Read the entire IT-Enquirer report for their complete review of Fiery System 9 Release 2.
Source: IT Enquirer, “EFI Fiery System 9 Release 2 RIP Product Analysis, 2009-2010
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