Venlo, The Netherlands and Foster City, California, USA - Océ, an international leader in digital document management and delivery, and EFI , a world leader in customer-focused digital printing innovation, today announced they are extending their long-term partnership to include a new worldwide referral agreement.

MIS end-to-end solution

The new agreement allows Océ to refer their customers to EFI for MIS systems. Océ now has the option to add extended value to their consultancy offerings by referring their customers to EFI for their EFI Pace and EFI Monarch solutions.

"Océ has been among the leading distributors of EFI's award-winning Fiery controllers for many years," said Crit Driessen, vice president of Marketing and Strategy at Océ. "With this agreement, we continue to enhance our ability to ensure we are providing leading edge end-to-end solutions to our global customer base."

12,000 print installations in place

"EFI and Océ have been working successfully together for many years, and we're pleased to have a referral arrangement in place that will allow EFI solutions to reach a broader customer base in many new markets," said Marc Olin, senior vice president/general manager, EFI Advanced Professional Print Software (APPS). "With more than 12,000 print MIS installations already in place around the globe, we're confident that Océ's customers will realize huge gains in productivity and profits with our Pace and Monarch systems."

EFI Pace is a complete MIS system for commercial printshops, specialty and wide-format companies that automates the entire business process from estimating to production. EFI Monarch is a robust multi-dimensional workflow and management solution with multi-company, multi-division, multi-language and multi-currency capabilities.