EFI World of Fiery Webinar Series
EFI is pleased to present our free World of Fiery Webinar Series, an on-going program of educational, and free webinars that feature valuable information for color professionals and for owners and managers of print businesses and in-plant/CRD operations. Join our subject matter experts to hear best practices, gather tips for success, and learn how to compete more effectively.

The digital print room evolves with the upcoming release of Fiery proServer and Fiery XF 7. Join this session to find out about the benefits of making the move, the easy steps involved to upgrade, and get an overview of what’s new and different in this exciting new version. In this session you will learn:
- How this latest release will help you unify your digital print room to gain efficiencies and greater productivity
- How quick and easy the upgrade process is
- What's different and new, plus how to make a smooth transition to this new version
June 13 at 8am PDT, 11am EDT, 5pm CEST

The digital print room evolves with the upcoming release of Fiery proServer and Fiery XF 7. Join this session to find out about the benefits of making the move, the easy steps involved to upgrade, and get an overview of what’s new and different in this exciting new version. In this session you will learn:
- How this latest release will help you unify your digital print room to gain efficiencies and greater productivity
- How quick and easy the upgrade process is
- What's different and new, plus how to make a smooth transition to this new version
June 14 at 9am CEST (Central European Summer Time), 3pm CST (China Standard Time), 6pm AEST (Australian Eastern Standard Time)

Many see the G7 method as something solely used in North America or even an alternative to FOGRA or GRACoL. This webinar will explain why this is not the case, why G7 has value worldwide, how it can improve color and print results in conjunction with other color specifications, and how it provides a method to easily generate full gamut output from your printer. In this session you will learn:
- The value of using G7 curves with your Fiery proServer and Fiery XF system
- How to use a G7 curve along with your ICC profiles
- Why the G7 process can be used no matter what specification you work with, e.g. FOGRA, IDEAlliance, or ISO

- Demonstrate a new way to simplify the automation of gangup jobs
- Show you how to add logos, watermarks, and graphic illustrations to documents and avoid going back to the designer
- Highlight new shortcuts that can help increase production with fewer clicks

- Get familiar with the new color tab interface in Job Properties
- Learn how to ensure the right color profile is used for all your jobs
- Ensure job setup consistency with new server defaults

- Take a guided tour and navigate the new features
- Understand the easy ways to upgrade
- Access free online educational resources

This webinar will focus on tips and tricks to ensure your Fiery digital front end serves your wide format business in the best possible way. We’ll touch upon four areas including color, automation, integration and usability best practices for inkjet printing environments. Learn how to:
- Simplify your system and workflows by using presets and workspaces
- Utilize more of your available color by using the Dynamic Rendering Intent
- Improve process monitoring with the Fiery Dynamic Wedge™
- Control user access through the use of Hotfolders and the UniDriver

- What G7 is and why it’s important to your business
- How G7 can help you achieve repeatable, predictable color
- How to perform G7 calibration of your Fiery Driven™ print system using Fiery Color Profiler Suite

- The fundamentals of process control
- How to use verification to check for device drift
- How to correct for device drift
- Where to use a G7 curve
- How to match one device to another

What you don’t know about your operation can impact your bottom line. Find out how getting operational data directly from your Fiery Driver™ engines, presented in visual, easy-to-understand formats, can help you make informed operational decisions to improve profitability. Learn how to:
- Get real-time alerts for production problems
- Spot unfavorable trends early, and act on them quickly
- Improve workload balance, equipment usage, and production output
- Manage Fiery configurations for multiple presses to run a more consistent and efficient operation

- The basics of profile creation
- Which profiling target to use and why
- The impact of black generation settings
- Best practices for optimization
- How often to profile and optimize, and more

- Custom calibration file creation for your inks and substrates
- Getting the best results from existing linearizations
- Fiery profiling and optimising possibilities

Delivering outstanding, high-quality prints every time, on time is critical to your business success. Learn how to use advanced Fiery graphics arts tools to quickly troubleshoot and fix common print issues right at the DFE, eliminating rework and the need to go back to prepress:
- See how to easily make color adjustments with a few clicks
- Learn to quickly identify and solve problems such as missing font or spot colors, trapping, and transparency rending before printing a single page
- Discover how to diagnose whether artifacts on the printed page stem from file processing or the print engine

- ICC profiling basics
- Profile inspection and editing
- The benefits of quality control
- How to diagnose and solve color issues

Get the best return on your Fiery makeready application and discover how to leverage Enfocus PitStop Edit, a powerful Adobe® Acrobat plug-in, to enhance or fix PDF documents in the prepress department or at the digital front end. This webinar will show you how to use PitStop Edit more effectively with:
- An overview of features and how you can use them to modify PDF files without going back to the customer
- Lessons on how to make quick and easy image adjustments, plus corrections to text and color – all within the familiar Adobe Acrobat interface
- Demonstration of common editing scenarios

- How to get the best match possible on your substrates
- Working with PANTONE®, Toyo, DIC and HKS® matching systems
- Modifying existing spot colors
- Adding custom spot colors, and building custom spot color libraries
- How to evaluate spot color accuracy
- Using the Dynamic Wedge™ to improve spot color reproduction

If you are a print professional who wants to take your color to the next level, this session is for you. Building on our previous sessions on color, this advanced webinar shows you how to:
- Select the right profiles and settings to get the best results on your DFE
- Configure color settings to correctly process page objects in different color spaces
- Understand gamut compression options and their impact on image quality
- Ensure grayscale pages are not charged as color clicks
- Identify and fix common causes of color management failure

- Fiery XF and Fiery proServer's cutting options
- Cut path creation and use
- Tiling, nesting and step & repeat functions

- Understand how to set goals, choose communication channels and implement campaign elements
- Learn how to select the right VDP language for your workflow
- See both simple and complex variable data campaigns built during the webinar

- Which software and file formats to use for your desired results
- How to verify if a file is print ready
- What tasks and changes can be performed in your RIP

- Determine how the characteristics of paper relate to your print manufacturing process
- Configure print settings to get the best quality on each stock
- Maximize productivity through paper stock management and automated settings on the digital print system
- Choose a paper stock for calibration and set the correct profile

- Applying the correct settings for a job type and end product
- Which Fiery XF settings impact color
- Custom calibration, profiling and optimization
- Working with spot colors

- Why standards exist and what they are useful for
- The latest standards and how they differ globally
- G7, where this fits
- Where standards impact the print process

- Basic color theory and management terms
- Color spaces and rendering intents
- ICC profiles, assigning and conversions
- The importance of calibration and profiling

- Identifying print quality problems in color images, including techniques to visually evaluate both color and grayscale images for quality assurance
- Optimizing output quality for vector graphics, such as illustrations and gradients, in both design applications and the DFE
- Understanding print quality issues that can result from design elements including transparency and overprints
- Configuring a DFE so that grayscale pages don't result in a color click charge, plus optimizing image quality for grayscale pages

- Why Fiery — what is a Fiery digital front end (DFE) and how it can help you produce more
- The basics of Fiery Command WorkStation — where to start and how to optimize your job management
- Examples of setting up common job management workflows
- Tips and resources for ensuring your ongoing success







- Create print jobs with spot colors
- Define spot colors on the Fiery digital front end
- Make custom profiles for top quality color matching

- Color management for digital workflows
- Color calibration and profiling
- Color matching across print technologies
