Ricoh is a pioneer in digital office automation, and EFI, a world leader in digital controllers, superwide format printers and inks, and print management solutions for commercial and enterprise printing, will work together to develop and market POD workflow solutions to create a seamless process for printing companies.
“Ricoh’s and EFI’s joint objective in extending the relationship is to provide Ricoh’s POD and production customers with EFI’s industry-leading digital controllers and innovative digital workflow solutions,” says Guy Gecht, EFI CEO.
“Our new alliance will create greater leverage and synergies between our two companies and further enable Ricoh’s customers to profitably grow their digital printing business.”
The business alliance will initially concentrate on providing solutions for the North American market.
This business alliance builds upon the strong Ricoh-EFI relationship, dating back to EFI’s founding in 1989. The companies’ collaboration includes delivering EFI’s industry-leading Fiery server technology, with advanced production and workflow control capabilities for customers of Ricoh’s Aficio multifunction products (MFPs).
In addition, both companies are active participants in organisations such as PODi (PPML) and CIP4 (JDF), among others.
