SGIA Teams Up with Hart Consulting Services to Offer New Regional Retail Workshop
Join your imaging peers in Los Angeles next month and learn the language of retail

Fairfax, Virginia – Hart Consulting Services and SGIA are teaming up to help imagers benefit from a unique Workshop — Positioning Your Business for Retail Success (June 19–21, Los Angeles) — focused on the retail sector, filled with interactive learning segments and roll-up-your-sleeves exercises.

This exclusive two-day seminar, led by retail experts, Brian Hart and Clayton Marsh, will show businesses how to rethink their message and offerings, and begin to introduce broader solutions beyond the printed product. SGIA’s new regional Workshop will help you:

• Support your customers through educational programming
• Build relationships with retailers and brand managers
• Learn the common language for the retail market
• Find tools to improve your process
• Apply these strategies to increase sales

Class size is limited. Don’t miss this invaluable opportunity to learn from the best and begin to offer broader solutions for your customers. Visit SGIA.org, Keyword: RetailWorkshop for more information, or to register.

SGIA – Supporting the Leaders of the Digital & Screen Printing Community
“Specialty imaging” comprises digital imaging, screen printing and the many other imaging technologies SGIA members use, including those they’ll tap in the future. These are the imaging processes and technologies employed to create new products and to enhance existing products including point-of-purchase displays, printed electronics, membrane switches, signs, advertisements, garments, containers and vehicles. Make the most of your specialty imaging business.

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Dusseldorf, Germany – drupa 2012, May 9, 2012 – To cater to increasing demands from display producers, photo labs and sign makers wanting higher image quality capabilities at production level speeds, EFI? (Nasdaq: EFII) today announced the EFI VUTEk® QS2 Pro UV hybrid printer. This competitively-priced, two-metre printer, driven by the Orion OS platform, combines greyscale print quality with VUTEk production-level speeds for customers looking to take on more color critical and higher-premium jobs.

Fine art and P-O-P image quality are delivered through true variable drop greyscale technology, six colors plus white, and multi-layer print capability all in line. Greyscale technology delivers high image quality at production speeds while maximizing ink yield for a lower cost per print and low total cost of ownership.

“Customers visiting the EFI stand at drupa have commented that the image quality, speed and overall performance of the new QS2 Pro are impressive,” stated Ken Hanulec, vice president of marketing for EFI inkjet solutions.

Flexible EFI UV inks offer a wide color gamut for greater PMS color matching and consistency, and ensure the maximum reliability and performance of the printer. The ruggedly constructed VUTEk QS2 Pro is designed for extended operation and has an optional roll-to-roll feature for even more throughput.

The VUTEk QS2 Pro is supplied with the Fiery? XF proServer to increase productivity, performance and efficiency of every job. It comes with an expanded set of Fiery® RIP options, a high-performance hardware platform, JDF integration to EFI Web-to-Print and MIS/ERP solutions, and a complimentary13-month support and maintenance plan.

About EFI

EFI™ (www.efi.com) is a worldwide provider of products, technology and services leading the transformation of analogue to digital imaging. Based in Silicon Valley (Ca, USA), with offices around the globe, the company’s powerful integrated product portfolio includes digital front-end servers; superwide, wide-format, label and ceramic inkjet presses and inks; production workflow, web to print, and business automation software; and office, enterprise and mobile cloud solutions. These products allow users to produce, communicate and share information in an easy and effective way, and enable businesses to increase their profits, productivity, and efficiency.

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NOTE TO EDITORS: The EFI logo, Fiery and VUTEk are registered trademarks of Electronics For Imaging, Inc. in the U.S. and/or certain other countries. EFI is a trademark of Electronics For Imaging, Inc. in the U.S. and/or certain other countries. All other terms and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners, and are hereby acknowledged.

Nothing herein should be construed as a warranty in addition to the express warranty statements provided with EFI products and services. This news release contains forward-looking statements, that are statements other than statements of historical fact including words such as “anticipate”, “believe”, “estimate”, “expect”, “consider”, “plan” and similar, any statements related to strategies or objectives of management for future operations, products, development, performance, any statements of assumptions or underlying any of the foregoing and any statements in the future tense. Forward-looking statements are subject to certain risks and uncertainties that could cause our actual or future results to differ materially. For further information regarding risks and uncertainties associated with EFI’s businesses, please refer to the risk factors section in the Company’s SEC filings, including, but not limited to, its annual report on Form 10-K and its quarterly reports on Form 10-Q. EFI undertakes no obligation to update information contained herein, including forward-looking statements.

Foster City, California – May 8, 2012 – EFI™ (Nasdaq: EFII), a world leader in customer-focused digital printing innovation, today announced that customer Bradford & Bigelow has added the EFI Monarch Planner and latest EFI PrintFlow® modules to its existing EFI Monarch workflow, to bring even more streamlined production and greater cost savings.

Based in Newbury Port, Mass., Bradford & Bigelow is a supply chain solution provider in the book manufacturing industry. Over the past three years the company has experienced a decline in run lengths and a corresponding decrease in revenue per job, and realized they needed an even greater integrated workflow and more streamlined production in order to successfully compete for these smaller order quantities.

“We have been a very satisfied EFI Monarch and Auto-Count® user, and now the timing is right to add the Planner capabilities to our workflow,” said Peter Doyle, executive vice president at Bradford & Bigelow. “We view EFI’s Planner module as a critical application that allows us to integrate the RFQ, estimating, job planning, scheduling, pre-press, shipping and invoicing tasks into one seamless process.

“In turn, the Planner software will allow us to process work faster through our order entry, job planning and pre-press departments,” continued Doyle. “The application will also allow us to improve the quality of our work orders and pagination layouts, and decrease the frequency of production inefficiencies that occur as the result of missing and contradictory job instructions. We view Planner to be an ideal tool to ensure that we consistently adhere to our best practices. For every dollar we invest in accurate work order instructions we save $100 in the plant by eliminating inefficiencies, delays and mistakes.”

Bradford & Bigelow is also updating their scheduling system to the new version of PrintFlow. The close integration between the Planner and PrintFlow applications allows them to eliminate the manual tasks of creating a pert diagram for each job.

For more information on EFI Monarch, visit www.efi.com or contact 800-875-7117.

About EFI

EFI™ (www.efi.com) is a worldwide provider of products, technology and services leading the transformation of analog to digital imaging. Based in Silicon Valley, with offices around the globe, the company’s powerful integrated product portfolio includes digital front-end servers; superwide, wide-format, label and ceramic inkjet presses and inks; production workflow, web to print, and business automation software; and office, enterprise and mobile cloud solutions. These products allow users to produce, communicate and share information in an easy and effective way, and enable businesses to increase their profits, productivity, and efficiency.

Follow EFI Online:

Follow us on Twitter: @EFI_Print_Tech
Find us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/EFI.Digital.Print.Technology
View us on YouTube: www.youtube.com/EFIDigitalPrintTech

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SAN DIEGO, May 4, 2012 — Memjet today announced a key agreement that clears the way for the continued commercialization of Memjet’s revolutionary color printing technology.

Under the agreement, Memjet will assume direct ownership and control of
the intellectual property portfolio related to the Memjet technology,
which includes some 4,000 issued and pending global patents.
Additionally, Memjet will assume direct control of all research,
development and commercialization activities for Memjet technology,
including services previously provided to Memjet by Sliverbrook
Research Pty. Ltd. from its North Ryde, facilities in Sydney,
Australia. Kia Silverbrook, a co-founder of Memjet and President of
Silverbrook Research, will continue to support Memjet as a special
advisor to the Memjet Board of Directors and as an ongoing consultant.

“We’re pleased that this agreement has been reached,” said Len Lauer,
president and CEO of Memjet. “With all litigation now resolved between
the parties, Memjet is positioned to move forward and focus on
bringing its disruptive technology to commercial, industrial and
office printing markets worldwide.”

Memjet has forged partnerships with some of the world’s leading
manufacturers and brands, including Lenovo, LG, and others. Memjet’s
Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM) partner expansion is continuing
at drupa, the world’s largest printing industry trade show in
Düsseldorf, Germany, where Memjet has jointly announced OEM news with
industry leaders including Oce, a Canon Company, and Toshiba-Tec.
Memjet will make more announcements during the show.

“At drupa, Memjet and our OEMs are showcasing where digital printing is
headed, which is fast, affordable color printing with lower cost of
ownership, reduced hardware costs, print on-demand capabilities, and
environmentally friendliness–an entirely new category of color
digital printing,” Lauer continued. “drupa is an exciting opportunity
for everyone to see Memjet’s technology in action across a variety of
printing solutions and learn about our latest partnership news.”

Memjet’s revolutionary technology has been honored with several
prestigious industry awards, including Popular Science Best of What’s
New for 2011, the Printing Industries of America InterTech(TM)
Technology Award, the 2011 CONNECT Most Innovative New Product Award,
the Angel Award for Wide-Format Innovation from Image Reports in the
UK, and most recently, the Gold Medal in the 2012 Edison Awards.

To learn more about Memjet’s news announced at drupa, please visit
www.memjet.com/buzz . To visit Memjet at drupa, please see us at Stand
E28 in Hall 5.

About Memjet

Memjet is the global leader in color printing technologies that provide
remarkable speeds and affordability. The company supplies technologies
and components to OEM partners across the printing industry. Memjet
maintains its corporate office in San Diego, and has offices in
Dublin, Sydney, Taipei, Singapore and Boise, Idaho. The company is
privately held. For more information, please visit www.memjet.com or
follow us on Twitter @memjet.

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DUSSELDORF, Germany, May 3, 2012 /PRNewswire/ –Memjet, the global leader in color printing technologies that provide remarkable speeds and affordability, is showcasing its ground-breaking innovation at drupa 2012 through key partnerships and partners’ new products. Memjet is featuring certified partners’ demos of the latest printing solutions, including Memjet-powered industrial, commercial and office products at its stand in Hall 5, E28. Memjet and its partners will also be celebrating these announcements at the Memjet press cocktails on May 4 from 4:30 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. on the observation deck of the Memjet stand, which will offer visitors an amazing glimpse into the future of super fast, affordable color printing.

“Memjet’s focus has been on growing and liberating customers across the printing spectrum through the continuous evolution of technologies that power printers far beyond what traditional markets have come to know and expect,” says Len Lauer, Memjet president and CEO. “This is our first time at drupa and we are honored to be announcing new partnerships and seeing the latest Memjet-powered solutions from many of the most innovative OEMs in the printing industry, including Oce, Toshiba TEC, Delphax, Xante, Colordyne, Astro Machine Corporation, and Lomond. We are pleased to be showcasing partner printing solutions for multiple markets and applications.”

Key Memjet highlights at drupa include:

• Oce, a Canon Group company and an international leading provider of document management and printing for professionals, formally announced a technical partnership with Memjet that has developed a large format color concept, set the change the landscape of digital large format color printing. Project Velocity offers game-changing technology that prints up to 15 times faster than conventional inkjet systems, with the capability of printing up to 500 A0 prints at 1600 x 800 dpi per hour. Project Velocity is on display and being demonstrated hourly in the Canon Europe Ltd. stand, Hall 8A, C06-1.
• Toshiba TEC Corporation announced a partnership with Memjet for the development of multi-function office products (MFP) featuring Memjet’s revolutionary page-wide printhead, controller chip, software and ink. The MFP will feature a scanner, photocopier and color printer that produces high-quality color pages at 60 pages per second. Additionally, Toshiba TEC announced that it is currently evaluating Memjet technologies for labels and logistics printing in industrial and commercial markets.
• Delphax Technologies Inc., a global provider of high-speed digital printing equipment, recently announced that it is introducing its new elan™ 500 digital color print system at drupa. Powered by Memjet technologies, the system combines major advances in inkjet and paper-handling technologies to offer full color and 1600 dpi print quality at speeds of up to 500 impressions per minute. The system will be showcased at the Delphax stand, Hall 8b, C10. A Delphax elan™ 500 news conference is also scheduled for May 4 at 1:30 p.m. in Room 01 Congress Center Dusseldorf (CCD-South).
• Xante’s Excelagraphix 4200 Inkjet Print System will be on display both at Memjet’s stand as well at the Xante stand located in Hall 5, D36. The Excelagraphix 4200 features revolutionary Memjet Waterfall Printhead Technology™ that delivers more than 3 billion drops of ink per second, for print speeds up to 8 times faster than traditional inkjet technology. Its now possible to print over-sized architectural / engineering documents, maps, indoor signage, P-O-P displays, packaging, folding cartons, corrugated boxes, newspapers, and more, all on-demand. Xante will be shipping the first engines in June of this year.
• Colordyne Technologies will be showcasing the Colordyne CDT-1600 PC Sprint, the first affordable, high speed Production Class printing system of its kind running both pre-die cut labels and non-die cut master rolls for post-print finishing. The 1600 PC Sprint features five revolutionary Memjet printheads; each containing 70,400 nozzles that are integrated into five interchangeable ink delivery blades. The system can be integrated with the Colordyne 1600 PC Pro inline finishing system to offer a complete solution that features the unique combination of quality, high speed, productivity and unmatched low cost of ownership. The CDT-1600 PC Sprint will be on display at Memjet’s stand.
• Astro Machine Corp. has partnered with Memjet to produce the AstroJet M-Series Printers, which provide the ideal solution for high quality on-demand printing requiring quick, cost-effective turnarounds. The AstroJet M1 prints up to 3,600 letter size pages or 9,000 envelopes per hour, while the new AstroJet M2, being shown for the first time anywhere, is a professional-grade standalone color-page printer to be released this year that features a large, high capacity 5,000 sheet feeder. Both models will be on display at Memjet’s stand.
• After announcing the Memjet-powered Lomond EvoJet Office in April 2011, London-based Lomond and Memjet are teaming up again to present two new office products, the EvoJet Office 2 and the EvoJet Office Pro. The EvoJet Office 2 boasts a whole new design and key improvements, including a larger manual feed tray, while the EvoJet Office Pro is a long-awaited 3-in-1 Memjet-powered multi-functional printer, with a 20ppm automatic document feeder and a 1200 dpi scanner. Both models are being presented at Memjet’s stand.

Memjet technologies make possible an amazingly fast and efficient digital color print systems that combine controller chip, ink and revolutionary printheads. Memjet technologies, protected by more 4,000 global patents, are specialized in MEMS (MicroElectroMechanical Systems) technology and have taken more than a decade to develop and patent. Each Memjet A4 printhead consists of 70,400 inkjet nozzles on an 8.77″ fixed width for the delivery of 1600 x 800 dpi color at 60 pages per minute, or 12 inches per second. Memjet technology paves the way for a scalable inkjet printing business model creating lower capital, operating and consumables costs. On average, a Memjet-powered printer is twice the speed and half the cost versus legacy printing solutions.

ABOUT MEMJET

Memjet is the global leader in color printing technologies that provide remarkable speeds and affordability. The company supplies technologies and components to OEM partners across the printing industry. Memjet maintains its corporate office in San Diego, and has offices in Dublin, Sydney, Taipei, Singapore and Boise, Idaho. The company is privately held. For more information, please visit www.memjet.com, ‘Like’ us on Facebook or follow us on Twitter @memjet.

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Foster City, California – May 2, 2012 – Making its worldwide debut at drupa is EFI’s (Nasdaq: EFII) latest UV-curable digital press that represents a true replacement for analog equipment with the productivity of screen and image quality approaching offset. The 3.2m EFI™ VUTEk® HS100 Pro is a versatile high-speed digital UV press with productivity and image quality that will appeal to screen printers and the commercial sector wanting a cost-effective digital platform to produce longer sheet runs at a low total cost of ownership.

EFI’s Pin & Cure imaging technology, driven by the Orion OS platform, delivers precise ink lay-down for critical color accuracy and consistency, gloss control and an increased color gamut – all with the productivity and digital efficiencies to accommodate more versioning and localization. With impressive throughput speeds at rates of up to 100 boards per hour and up to 50 boards per hour in P-O-P mode, the VUTEk HS100 Pro comes with true greyscale print head technology and up to eight colors, including white and specials, for maximum ink yield and a low cost per print over analog.
“This next generation EFI VUTEk press should win every side-by-side comparison with existing digital presses in terms of offering the best combination of speed, output quality and return on investment,” said Scott Schinlever, senior vice president and general manager of Inkjet Solutions at EFI. “The printer brings greater flexibility and workflow integration, with streamlined and versatile production on longer run lengths. Combined with advanced production features, warning and detection systems, and the Fiery XF proServer, the HS100 Pro is a true 24/7 solution ideal for the most demanding production environments.”

About EFI

EFI™ (www.efi.com) is a worldwide provider of products, technology and services leading the transformation of analogue to digital imaging. Based in Silicon Valley (CA, USA), with offices around the globe, the company’s powerful integrated product portfolio includes digital front-end servers; superwide, wide-format, label and ceramic inkjet presses and inks; production workflow, web to print, and business automation software; and office, enterprise and mobile cloud solutions. These products allow users to produce, communicate and share information in an easy and effective way, and enable businesses to increase their profits, productivity, and efficiency.

Follow us Online:

Follow us on Twitter: @EFI_Print_Tech
Find us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/EFI.Digital.Print.Technology
View us on YouTube: www.youtube.com/EFIDigitalPrintTech

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Foster City, California – May 2, 2012 – Marking its twelfth year of delivering cloud-based solutions, with more than 2,500 customers utilizing the company’s on-demand managed services, EFI™ (Nasdaq: EFII) today launched an additional cloud service offering – off-site data protection services utilizing its own state-of-the-art data center in North America and additional sites in Europe.

Available now, EFI is offering new online back-up, storage and data recovery options for Print MIS and web-to-print customers that wish to host their own solutions, to ensure protection, redundancy and speedy recovery in case of disaster. Operations are monitored continuously and customers are notified immediately of conditions that could impact service.

“EFI has been a pioneer in cloud-based services with active customers since 2000. We are the largest managed services provider for print providers, with thousands of locations and millions of users accessing the cloud,” said Ghilad Dziesietnik, chief technology officer of EFI. “Software in the cloud offers numerous benefits, most notably reduced maintenance costs for users, 24/7 care and management by a team of experts, anywhere access to information, redundancy, back-up and highly secure data. Our new remote data protection services provide many of these advantages for clients that wish to host their own applications.”

EFI’s current cloud-based Software as a Service offerings include EFI Pace™ and EFI PrintSmith™ Vision management systems, the EFI Digital StoreFront® web-to-print platform, and the new EFI Fiery® Dashboard business information service. Unlike many other applications on the market today that are designed as client-server products, EFI applications were designed from the ground up to run in a browser; their performance and reliability have been fine-tuned over the years to work optimally in a cloud-based deployment.

EFI cloud offerings enable customers to utilize powerful, Web-based tools without investing in any hardware or dedicated IT personnel on site. The system is continuously available to administrators, print operations personnel and print requestors via the Internet, without any need for local software other than a browser.

Commercial printer Freeport Press, Inc. is an EFI MIS client that hosts their own solution and was an early adopter of EFI’s disaster recovery services. “We had a fire in our facility and EFI was able to recover our back-up data and have us up and running from their cloud as soon as our replacement hardware was available,” said David G. Pilcher, president and CEO of Freeport Press. “Without EFI’s help and quick response, and their expertise in delivering cloud-based solutions, we would have lost countless hours of business from not having our systems available.”

“The cloud is not only ideal for hosting services, but also for providing other critical capabilities such as disaster recovery,” said Greg Carter, director of EFI cloud services. “With their data safely stored off-site with EFI, customers are more prepared than they could be on their own. Our capacity and expertise ensure a timely recovery at a moment that is trying and critical for any organization.”

Customer data are transferred automatically every day using secure protocols to allow a full recovery into EFI’s cloud which uses the latest border security, access control techniques, active virus filtering, and centralized monitoring. EFI provides MIS and Internet know-how combined with 24×7, real-time situation handling to deliver reliable services from the cloud as well as superior recovery into the cloud.

For more information on EFI’s products and data protection services, visit EFI at drupa (stand C01, Hall 5 through May 16), www.efi.com or call 800-875-7117.

About EFI

EFI™ (www.efi.com) is a worldwide provider of products, technology and services leading the transformation of analog to digital imaging. Based in Silicon Valley, with offices around the globe, the company’s powerful integrated product portfolio includes digital front-end servers; superwide, wide-format, label and ceramic inkjet presses and inks; production workflow, web to print, and business automation software; and office, enterprise and mobile cloud solutions. These products allow users to produce, communicate and share information in an easy and effective way, and enable businesses to increase their profits, productivity, and efficiency.

Follow EFI Online:

Follow us on Twitter: @EFI_Print_Tech
Find us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/EFI.Digital.Print.Technology
View us on YouTube: www.youtube.com/EFIDigitalPrintTech

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SGIA’s Marci Kinter to Present at HP’s Eco Leadership Forum during Drupa 2012
Association’s sustainability expert travels to Germany for two days of presentations

Fairfax, Virginia – Marci Kinter, SGIA’s vice president of government and business information, is in Dusseldorf, Germany this week, for the HP Eco Leadership Forum, hosted by Drupa. Much progress has been made toward building a more sustainable future for the printing industry, but significant challenges remain, and HP has assembled a panel of experts, of which Kinter is a part, to tackle these issues.

“Sustainability is becoming increasingly critical to the future success of printing business around the world, and even to the future of the printing industry itself,” Kinter explained.

The HP Eco Leadership Forum features two sessions examining how the printing industry can develop a common understanding of what sustainability means, as well as considering how environmental performance can be improved across the industry. Kinter will be speaking at both sessions:

• Sharing Knowledge Across the Supply Chain — Saturday, May 5, at 3:45 pm
• Improving Environmental Performance — Tuesday, May 8, at 3:45 pm

Visit HP online for more information, or to participate in the Eco Leadership Forum.

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SGIA – Supporting the Leaders of the Digital & Screen Printing Community
“Specialty imaging” comprises digital imaging, screen printing and the many other imaging technologies SGIA members use, including those they’ll tap in the future. These are the imaging processes and technologies employed to create new products and to enhance existing products including point-of-purchase displays, printed electronics, membrane switches, signs, advertisements, garments, containers and vehicles. Make the most of your specialty imaging business.

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