COVER STORY
POST-COVID WORLD WITH EFI FIERY
TURNING CHALLENGES INTO OPPORTUNITIES
Turning Challenges into Opportunities in a Post-COVID World with EFI Fiery. Terry Garvey, European Sales Director, EFI Fiery says…
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hat a journey it’s been over the past couple of years. These have certainly been difficult times to navigate, and from a business perspective, having far fewer opportunities to meet with customers, colleagues, and friends was quite an adjustment, which is why it’s such a welcome sight to see events back on the calendar and face to face meetings returning. However, we’re now experiencing something of a mixed blessing; while it’s great to resume many pre-COVID activities, we are facing some notable challenges as a result of the global pandemic. Let’s take a ‘glass half full’ approach for a moment. Without being able to spend as much time out on the road as they normally would, EFI Fiery engineers have had plenty of time to innovate, creating a wealth of timely new features that are perfectly attuned to the demands of print businesses in today’s climate. From market research from PRINTING United/NAPCO Research, we have identified four pressing issues businesses are currently facing, and 18
will take a look at the ways in which Fiery solutions can help mitigate and overcome these challenges.
SUPPLY CHAIN CHALLENGES
We have all been subject to the issues with global supply chains, likely on a personal and professional level. For print professionals, dealing with paper shortages, consumables arriving at the last moment, less and less time to process jobs, you have no room for error and neither do your customers — it’s becoming an all too familiar story. Businesses need to maximise press utilisation as much as possible, and minimise waste, reruns, and downtime. For starters, we have a simple yet supremely effective solution: Fiery is
now even faster. The EFI Fiery FS500 Pro platform processes files up to 50 percent faster, which means with just a few clicks the operator is on to the next job, maximising their productivity and allowing businesses to run many more jobs a day and deliver quicker turnaround times. The latest version of Fiery Command WorkStation allows users to centralise job management with control over all their local or remote Fiery servers, delivering turbo-charged productivity and unrivalled flexibility. Automation is improved, with advanced search and tags, and user experience is even more intuitive, even with an inexperienced operator — which brings us to the next pressing issue.
LABOUR SHORTAGES
You may have heard of what’s being described as the ‘great resignation’, as workers across industries quit their jobs in droves as a consequence of COVID. However, some are now labelling this shift in the labour market as more of a ‘great reshuffle’, with many leaving their current roles in JUNE 2022 • QUICK PRINT PRO
