Question 1

Overview

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As a digital print producer, you want the easiest route to the best colour and print quality, produced in the least amount of time. Operators need a workflow solution that is adaptable to cater for different job types, and allows them to automate repeat jobs and repetitive tasks. In a successful print facility, you need to be able to deploy both your technology and your workforce as flexibly as possible-plus you need to keep learning curves to a minimum. Fiery XF 7 delivers all that and more to your wide and superwide
Unrivalled print job management
Fiery XF 7 comes with a new user experience - EFI Fiery Command WorkStation, the world's most popular interface for the management, layout, and editing of digital print jobs. It conveniently connects to multiple Fiery servers at a time whether driving inkjet or cutsheet printers and connects multiple printers to a single Fiery XF server for truly unified print job management through a single interface. The visual Fiery Job Editor allows you to apply job-specific settings on the fly, or to change properties beyond workflow defaults. The Fiery Job Center delivers unrivalled print job management, with the same power and usability for both Microsoft® Windows® and Apple® macOS® users.
Maximum productivity and throughput
EFI's exclusive Fiery Accelerated System Technology (FAST RIP), now available for Fiery XF users, accelerates file processing speeds by an average of 5 times. Fiery XF 7 has automation levels to suit everyone, and a customisable interface that can be tailored to suit the way each individual prefers to operate. Its award-winning cross-platform client interface reduces learning curves, and creates production efficiencies in mixed technology print rooms resulting in maximum productivity and throughput.
Ultimate colour, quality and control
Proof-grade colour controls and verification mean industry standard compliant colour results - no matter the application or product being produced. 100% EFI-developed colour management using ICC technology, combined with sophisticated iterative spot and process colour optimisation routines deliver superior colour. Its screening algorithms are engineered to maximise both print quality and printer performance, providing ultimate colour, quality and control, in the least amount of time.
Business-savvy print production
Fiery XF 7 maximises print production profits by providing business insights, and keeps your print operation running smoothly and efficiently. Fiery servers are the central hub of the EFI ecosystem connecting to EFI's MIS or Web-to-Print systems for print room integration and automation. Combined with EFI's worldwide and world-class support; this results in the most business-savvy digital front end solutions available.

Question 2

Configurations

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Fiery XF is scalable and configurable so it can grow with your business and your needs. A range of configurations gives you the best fit for a variety of print production scenarios. You can also purchase additional options to meet changing needs and customer demands. At least 1 printer option needs to be added to each configuration.
 
Fiery XF Production
Fiery XF Production is the perfect fit for inkjet production customers who have one or more non-EFI printers. With Fiery XF Production you get:
 • Fiery XF server software for Windows® including:
- Color Profiler Option
- Cut Marks Option
- Spot Color support
- FAST RIP
- No printer option included. Requires the addition of at least 1 printer option.
 • Unlimited macOS® or Windows® installations of Fiery Command WorkStation
 • Up to 10 concurrent connections
 • 1-year Software Maintenance & Support Agreement
 
Fiery XF Proofing
Over 70,000 registered licensees can't be wrong: Fiery XF Proofing is the most trusted proofing inkjet RIP. With Fiery XF Proofing you get:
 • Fiery XF server software for Windows including:
- Color Profiler Option
- Color Verifier Option
- Spot Color support
- FAST RIP
- No printer option included. Requires the addition of at least 1 printer option
 • Unlimited macOS® or Windows® installations of Fiery Command WorkStation
- Up to 10 concurrent connections
 • 1-year Software Maintenance & Support Agreement

Question 3

Options

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With Fiery XF options, you can add printer support and features to meet changing business needs and customer demands.
Printer and Product Options:
Printer Options add support for thousands of different printer models. Fiery XF configurations require at least 1 printer option to be added. Printer support falls into six different printer groups.
Color Profiler Option
Included with all configurations, this option delivers colour precision, consistency and accuracy. The Color Profiler Option is based on the renowned Fiery Color Profiler Suite. The advanced tool set provides quick and easy ICC and device link profile creation that produces the highest quality results every time, increasing your customer satisfaction. The option enables you to inspect, edit, and optimise profiles plus compare profile gamuts giving you ultimate control over your colour output.
Spot Color Option
The Spot Color Option - included with all Fiery XF configurations ensures perfect spot colour matching on every print. It allows you to produce consistent colours across all medias preserving brand identities. Built-in spot colour systems from Pantone®, HKS®, Toyo® and DIC® ensure that Fiery XF's definitions match the original definitions. The most demanding customer requirements will be satisfied with sophisticated tools for defining spot colour transparencies, gradation curves and much more.
Cut Marks Option
Included with Fiery XF Production, the Cut Marks Option generates and places cut marks into your jobs, and can also extract multiple cut paths from them. The option can directly connect to the Zünd Cut Center which ensures a reliable cut workflow by eliminating errors and automating time consuming tasks. This option also includes iCut level 1 and 2 output for maximum flexibility and connectivity to any compatible third-party cutting application.
Color Verifier Option
The Color Verifier Option included with Fiery XF Proofing-brings quality control to your environment enabling employees anywhere to work with the same colours, and produce consistent colour output every time. This flexible option supports a variety of measuring devices and industry standard control strips, plus EFI's unique Dynamic Wedge™ technology for job-specific colour verification. You can check your results against ISO standards, or your own quality standards by defining individual tolerances and values. It can also cut your distribution costs by serving as a reliable remote proofing and printing solution.
Cut Server Option
This automated solution, powered by SAi technology, supports over 1,300 cutting devices and routing tables from more than 80 different manufacturers, saving you precious time by eliminating the need to work with different software for each cutter type. The Cut Server Option increases your productivity by connecting together your printed output and finishing processes. It lets you run up to 4 cut servers, which in total allows you to drive up to 8 cutting engines in parallel to those tight turnaround times. Best of all, the option is easy-to-use and configure - anyone can use it, regardless of their experience level.
Sign Flow Option
For selected EFI printers, the Sign Flow Option streamlines the production and installation of in-store campaigns in several ways. It delivers the fastest possible print-production by only needing to RIP new print files, existing RTL files can be retrieved from file storage to complete a print run. Plus, Sign Flow can print signs and panels in any sequence which can be predefined for the most time-efficient in-store installation saving both production time and installation costs.
Ink Saving Option
The Ink Saving Option uses a unique combination of ink reduction technologies designed to maximise your savings with no visible image quality losses. Starting with traditional methods of ink reduction, such as GCR and black generation controls, then add proprietary Smart Ink Savings technology to deliver you the ultimate ink savings tool.

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