Foster City, Calif. -- EFI, the world leader in customer-focused digital printing innovation, today announced that the new Fiery Command WorkStation 5 (CWS5) job management solution has won a coveted PacPrint 09 "Hot Pick" technology award from Print 21, the definitive online printing and graphics arts industry journal for Australia and New Zealand. Taking place through May 30 and held every four years, PacPrint is one of the largest and most significant trade exhibitions for the printing and graphic technologies industry in the Southern Hemisphere.
 
With the PacPrint Hot Pick Awards, Print 21 rewards excellence and innovation within the industry. When announcing the awards, Print 21 Publisher Patrick Howard explained, "The Print 21 Hot Pick technology awards recognize the most innovative and creative responses to industry challenges. The awarded technologies represent the cutting-edge of the graphic arts; this is something everyone should pay attention to."
 
"EFI is honored to be among this year's Hot Pick award winners, which recognizes the powerful features of the newly available Fiery Command WorkStation 5. CWS5 centralizes Fiery job management via an intuitive, flexible interface that is the best solution to produce jobs faster, dramatically reduce operator mistakes, decrease waste, and increase the overall profitability for the production printer on every job," said Toby Weiss, general manager, Fiery division, EFI. "In addition to this recognition, EFI is pleased that our suite of Fiery, inkjet and software solutions on display are being well received by visitors."
 
Fiery Command WorkStation is the recognized industry standard for production printing job management technology, serving as the window into the entire printing workflow. It is compatible with most Fiery-driven engines in the production print environment, offering the same printing experience for both Mac and PC users. The solution simplifies complex jobs, regardless of the operators' experience, to produce the finest printing results the first time while maximizing throughput to deliver customer jobs profitably. Available free to any Fiery user on Fiery System 6 or later, CWS5 can be downloaded at www.efi.com/cws5.
 
For more information, visit www.efi.com or contact 800.875.7117.