Electronics For Imaging (Nasdaq:EFII) opened its EFI™ Connect event
– another sold out users’ conference with 10% more pre-registered
customer attendees compared to 2015 – yesterday at Wynn, Las Vegas.
This year’s event features the debut of several new Productivity
Suites – designed, built, validated and integrated workflows from
the industry’s leading business and production management software
portfolio – along with digital print and industrial inkjet products
to assist EFI customers adopting digital printing applications.
The Jan. 19-22 conference, which is one of the printing
industry’s largest and longest-running users’ group events,
features a solutions center and more than 200 technical, sales and
business management sessions, including hands-on customer labs,
interactive Voice of Customer sessions, user meetings for EFI
Productivity Suite and MIS/ERP core platforms and a development
track conducted by industry analyst group InfoTrends.
As always, networking and information sharing
between attendees is a key highlight as well, with the list of
Connect 2016 participants representing many of the world’s leading
print businesses.
During his opening keynote for the conference, EFI
CEO Guy Gecht stressed the need for customers to “bet on changes in
the market forces to accelerate.” Successful printing businesses,
he added, need to move with the window of opportunity. “You must be
willing to take a risk. Doing nothing is a guarantee that you will
be unsuccessful.”
Resort industry and Las Vegas business legend Steve
Wynn, Chairman and CEO of Wynn Resorts (Nasdaq:WYNN) gave a special
keynote presentation at Connect in honor of the conference’s 10th
anniversary at Wynn, Las Vegas. Wynn provided a business lesson on
his success, which, despite the luxury of his resorts, ultimately
depends on creating a culture where employees gain a sense of pride
and enhanced self-esteem through their work.
“Underneath every major business franchise is the
question of ‘is it better? Is their price really justified?’” said
Wynn. “What we’ve learned here is that only people make people
happy.”
Expansion of the Productivity Suite
strategy Customers at the conference are learning how the
EFI Productivity Suites – a comprehensive, best-of-portfolio
workflow platform introduced at Connect 2015 – improves users’
productivity, efficiency and profitability through “Suite
Certified” workflows for specific segments. EFI’s commitment to
development and advancement for Enterprise and Midmarket Commercial
and Packaging Suites are evident in sessions and the solutions
center. And, at this year’s conference EFI is continuing that
strategy and commitment, doubling its Productivity Suite offerings
with three new certified Suites for the quick printing, publication
print and corrugated packaging segments.
Connect 2016 also features advanced EFI Fiery® digital front end
and software technologies for cut-sheet digital printing, including
previews of Fiery Command WorkStation® 5.8 and the newest-version
Fiery JobFlow™ digital print workflow automation software.
Available this quarter, JobFlow delivers even more powerful digital
print workflow automation features for efficient multi-job
submission, extended third-party job processing, workflow sharing
and enhanced usability.
New inkjet opportunities in ‘The Imaging of
Things’ In addition to highlighting advanced workflow
technologies, Connect showcases how EFI customers across the globe
create profitable opportunities with innovative, high-value and
high-quality inkjet imaging applications. These customers are
successful participants in the concept of “The Imaging of Things,”
delivering greater product customization and appeal in everything
from signage and packaging to décor, apparel and industrial
manufacturing.
During his keynote, Gecht unveiled the Imaging of Things
exchange (www.ImagingofThings.com), an online customer applications
gallery designed to help EFI customers and print buyers grow their
network and business relationships.
The online exchange is free for EFI customers and provides a
venue for them to post images and videos of their work in a forum
targeted to print buyers looking for new, unique and innovative
application ideas. The Imaging of Things exchange addresses the
network effect online communities have in accelerating adoption of
new technologies and applications. And, as a result, EFI customers
can better promote their EFI print applications and generate new
business leads.
Connect’s solutions center features top technologies in the EFI
industrial inkjet portfolio, including best-selling, entry-level
and new, high-end hybrid LED printers with advanced, variable-drop
grayscale imaging and industry-leading white ink. The Connect 2016
exhibit floor also features versatile, roll-to-roll LED printing
technology from EFI’s recently acquired Matan product line.
Attendees can see a broader range of print application
possibilities within the Imaging of Things with exhibits of jobs
produced on EFI’s Cretaprint® ceramic tile printers, Jetrion®
narrow-web label printers and the company’s recently acquired line
of Reggiani textile printers. Michele Riva, sales and marketing
director for EFI Reggiani, will provide added insight into the
significant opportunity in printing for fabric graphic display and
industrial textile applications during a Jan. 21 keynote
speech.
Connect 2016 also features an industry update keynote from
Epicomm Chief Economist Andy Paparozzi and keynotes from additional
senior EFI executives.
Along with its lineup of technology and business presentations,
training sessions and EFI product demonstrations, Connect 2016
features numerous exhibits from partner companies, including
platinum sponsors Canon U.S.A. and Xerox; gold sponsor Duplo; and
bronze sponsors 3M Commercial Graphics; AccuZIP; BCC Software;
BondCote/Heytex Corp.; Esko; Honle UV America; Kodak; Konica
Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A. Inc.; Lintec Corp.; the Print and
Graphics Scholarship Foundation; Progress Software; and Ricoh
Production Print.
Connect is the printing industry's best venue for open dialogue
and idea exchange, giving global business leaders a valuable
opportunity to participate in educational sessions, receive
hands-on experience, discuss industry trends, network with peers,
voice their opinions, and learn from others. For more information
about EFI products, visit www.efi.com, or call 800-875-7117.
About EFI EFI™ is a global technology company,
based in Silicon Valley, and is leading the worldwide
transformation from analog to digital imaging. We are passionate
about fueling customer success with products that increase
competitiveness and boost productivity. To do that, we develop
breakthrough technologies for the manufacturing of signage,
packaging, textiles, ceramic tiles, and personalized documents,
with a wide range of printers, inks, digital front ends, and a
comprehensive business and production workflow suite that
transforms and streamlines the entire production process.
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