EFI has achieved a victory in its Spanish patent litigation with Jose Vicente Tomas Claramonte, the president of KERAjet, S.A., involving EFI Cretaprint's ceramic digital inkjet printing systems. "The court's ruling vindicates what we have maintained all along: that Claramonte's lawsuit was baseless and that his patent is invalid," said EFI's General Counsel, Bryan Ko.
Commercial printing industry supplier company and personnel news from Printing Impressions’ January 2013 edition.
Coloredge turned to EFI for the replacement of several wide-format digital printing presses damaged by Hurricane Sandy. “When the flooding occurred, we reached out to EFI and asked if they could expedite every part of the new equipment process—from orders to shipments, right through to installations,” said Jeb Ball, Coloredge’s executive vice president and COO.
The top new technology products in each of the Graph Expo 2012 Must See ’Ems categories were revealed at the close of the annual Executive Outlook conference that precedes the opening of the show.
Benny Landa, industry pioneer and chairman and CEO of the Landa Group, will participate in a “fireside chat” Q&A session with EFI CEO Guy Gecht at the 14th annual EFI Connect Users Conference. Landa made headlines when he unveiled Nanography at drupa 2012.
EFI announced that Gigantic Color of Dallas is acquiring an EFI VUTEk GS5000r five-meter, roll-to-roll UV printer. This is the 500th installation of the GS series of VUTEk printers. “We were looking for a reliable, very fast work-horse machine and wanted to work with an industry leader, a company with the latest technologies and one capable of addressing every possible application need,” said John Bowers, Sr., owner of Gigantic Color.
With the early announcement of this year’s top technology winners, GRAPH EXPO 2012 attendees will be able for the first time to plan their Must See ’Ems booth visits in advance of the show. They also will be able to take advantage of a new Must See ’Ems pre-show webinar for more in-depth discussions of the winning technologies and the reasons they were chosen.
In addition to access to more than 150 educational sessions, user group meetings and exhibitors, Connect Users’ Conference attendees are getting the opportunity to be the first to see and test drive the latest EFI products before they are released.
EFI is in final preparation for the Connect users’ conference, taking place April 10-13 at the Wynn Las Vegas. Connect enables print industry leaders from around the world to attend educational sessions, test drive the latest EFI products, voice their opinions at user group meetings, discuss industry trends, and network with peers.
Company representatives participated in the ringing of the opening bell at the NASDAQ MarketSite in Times Square to commemorated EFI’s 20-year anniversary as a NASDAQ-listed company. They did so wearing sneakers to help drive awareness of the Coaches vs. Cancer event.
