Although Gecht predicts that, in 10 years, total printed page output will be down 10 percent, he says digitally produced pages will grow 98.5 percent—and UV inkjet square footage output will skyrocket 156 percent.
Gecht also announced that EFI will seek out more strategic acquisitions in 2013, continuing the momentum the industry supplier has had from the deals completed last year to purchase Web-to-print and dynamic publishing firm Online Print Solutions (OPS) and print MIS/ERP provider Technique. He noted that the leaders from the last 10 out of 11 acquisitions consummated by EFI are still working at EFI today.
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