EFI is an international provider of digital controllers, superwide format printers, inks and print management solutions OEM partner to Toshiba America Business Solutions (TABS).
Recently awarded a BERTL’s Best Award for Innovation, DSF is EFI’s web-to-print platform providing a digital on-ramp for customers to connect with their preferred printer. DSF eases print job specification and file handling for the customer while automating workflow at the printer. With DSF, printers can provide proactive job status via the Web and customers are given better visibility into the production process via online job tracking.
Michael Szot, solutions product manager at TABS says: “EFI Digital StoreFront is a product that our dealers can use to penetrate the central reproduction and facilities management markets by providing a Web-based, centralized print-job ordering and management tool.
“DSF makes it easy for the customers to order printing, keep track of costs, and control their printing tasks. Having DSF in their arsenal allows dealers to provide the complete package from job entry and tracking to printing hardware, supplies and service.”
“In today’s highly competitive marketplace, more CRDs are becoming one-stop solution centres in order to survive. With DSF in its suite of offerings, TABS now enables these CRDs to offer a total print solution through a single e-commerce platform,” says Frank Mallozzi, senior vice president of worldwide sales and marketing at EFI. “We think the combination of TABS and DSF is a powerful one.”
A simple interface allows print customers to submit digital files from their PC or Macintosh computers, view PDF proofs of their documents for immediate review and approval, and easily enter their own job specifications for production and finishing. Once that information is entered, DSF creates a production job ticket and the file is automatically submitted into the print centre’s workflow, billing systems, print servers and output devices.
DSF also provides a powerful integration with EFI’s workflow and MIS solutions – the system creates an “end-to-end” content and commerce workflow from the desktop of the printer’s customer directly to EFI Fiery, Balance and Micropress solutions for digital printing and to EFI’s Hagen, Logic and PSI print management systems.
