EFI’s Fiery digital front end (DFE) will help Kyocera’s TASKalfa MFPs “streamline workflow”.
The new software is “targeted to busy office workgroups” EFI said in a 
. Douglas Cole, Director of Product Marketing, Corporate Marketing Division for KYOCERA Document Solutions America, said “Kyocera’s TASKalfa MFPs help streamline workflow while delivering exceptional color and image quality for the office environment. We are pleased to work with EFI to offer a wider range of options to meet our customers’ expanding printing needs.
The software delivers “colour quality” and “offers tools to achieve even more advanced colour” and“Companies can use Fiery Spot-On™ for colour-critical jobs to ensure brand colours are reproduced correctly and to achieve the best match for PANTONE® colours”.
“The Fiery DFE is certified for Fiery VUE” which is “a visual, interactive desktop printing application” is used to “create professional-looking print materials such as booklets, sales guides, and manuals”, providing “an instant 3D preview of the finished product” and can be used for producing “professionally finished documents on-demand without the cost and long lead times of outsourcing”. There is a free download of the programme or customers at www.efi.com/fieryvue.
Fiery Booklet Maker is “a driver-based imposition tool that allows users to print multiple pages of a print job from any application” in a “booklet style without the need for more advanced imposition programs”.
The “optional Fiery Productivity Package” offers “a set of tools that enable last-minute image corrections, advanced queue management functionality, and automated job submission and preparation”.
John Henze, Vice President, Fiery Marketing, EFI, said, “Based on the latest FS200 system software, this new Fiery DFE gives office users improved performance capabilities with speed enhancements, easy-to-use applications to produce professional-looking print materials, and the ability to save time and money by keeping jobs in-house with tools to automate job submission and enable last-minute image corrections.”