1 Top reasons to buy the Xerox EX 80 Print Server Because the investment horizon for a new digital printing system is from three to five years, it’s always good to consider both current and future needs of your print environment when deciding on a new digital printing system. EFI TM offers two Fiery ® server platforms for the Xerox ® Versant TM 80 Press — the embedded Xerox EX-i 80 Print Server Powered by Fiery and the external Xerox EX 80 Print Server Powered by Fiery. Both servers are optimized to drive the engine at rated speeds, maximizing return on investment (ROI). However, these two server platforms vary by the level of color-management controls, automation, productivity, workflow integration and expandability they offer. This document helps you understand the benefits of the Xerox EX 80 Print Server, how it will meet your current needs and how it offers built-in flexibility for future growth. The Xerox EX 80 Print Server comes with standard features that add productivity, quality and new services to your production environment. These features are not available on the Xerox EX-i 80 Print Server. 1. Powerful variable data printing (VDP) services The robust, open, flexible, and scalable Fiery solution supports all leading VDP formats including PDF/VT, PPML, VIPP and Creo VPS and works with all leading VDP composition software and formats for seamless workflows, which makes offering VDP services more profitable. 2. Perfect PDF printing in a pure PDF workflow The Xerox EX 80 Print Server includes the Adobe ® PDF Print Engine (APPE) 3.0 interpreter for end-to-end native PDF workflows. This allows consistency and flexibility from design to output in hybrid digital and offset print environments and also ensures correct representation of color spaces and transparencies. Xerox EX 80 Print Server: Standard features
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Top reasons to buy the Xerox EX 80 Print Server
Because the investment horizon for a new digital printing system is from three to
fi ve years, it’s always good to consider both current and future needs of your print
environment when deciding on a new digital printing system. EFITM o� ers two Fiery® server
platforms for the Xerox® VersantTM 80 Press — the embedded Xerox EX-i 80 Print Server
Powered by Fiery and the external Xerox EX 80 Print Server Powered by Fiery. Both servers
are optimized to drive the engine at rated speeds, maximizing return on investment (ROI).
However, these two server platforms vary by the level of color-management controls,
automation, productivity, workfl ow integration and expandability they o� er.
This document helps you understand the benefi ts of the Xerox EX 80 Print Server, how it
will meet your current needs and how it o� ers built-in fl exibility for future growth.
The Xerox EX 80 Print Server comes with standard features that add productivity, quality and new services to your production environment. These features are not available on the Xerox EX-i 80 Print Server.
1. Powerful variable data printing (VDP) servicesThe robust, open, fl exible, and scalable Fiery solution supports all leading VDP
formats including PDF/VT, PPML, VIPP and Creo VPS and works with all leading VDP
composition software and formats for seamless workfl ows, which makes o� ering
VDP services more profi table.
2. Perfect PDF printing in a pure PDF workfl owThe Xerox EX 80 Print Server includes the Adobe® PDF Print Engine (APPE) 3.0 interpreter
for end-to-end native PDF workfl ows. This allows consistency and fl exibility from
design to output in hybrid digital and o� set print environments and also ensures correct
representation of color spaces and transparencies.
Xerox EX 80 Print Server: Standard features
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3. Automated Web-to-Print submission, and integration with EFI MIS systemsThe Xerox EX 80 Print Server is certifi ed by CIP4 job defi nition format (JDF) IDP-ICS. By
adhering to this standard, Fiery servers integrate seamlessly with EFI MIS and Web-to-Print
systems as well as with industry-leading third-party prepress workfl ow solutions such
as Agfa :Apogee, Heidelberg Prinect and Kodak Prinergy. This helps you more e� ciently
deliver job specifi cations, update job status in real time, track job costing data and validate
equipment usage.
4. Inline tab separationsCreate and insert tab sheets directly into documents at Fiery Command WorkStation®
by entering the text for each tab and specifying the location of the tab at the last
possible stage in the print submission process.
6. Integration with transactional printing workfl owsThe Xerox EX 80 Print Server can adapt to legacy transactional printing workfl ows with
features such as Set Page Device to defi ne media pulls and map the output destination, and
Sequential Print to ensure the order of the fi nal output is correct.
5. A way to o� er pad printingWith the Xerox EX 80 Print Server, operators can print pads with ease from
a single-page job, and with minimal manual collation of the printed output.
7. Windows® 7 Pro OS fl exibilityThe Xerox EX 80 Print Server complies with the latest corporate IT standards and provides
more e� cient administration and implementation of security patches. You can also easily
implement standard industry practices such as running anti-virus software.
8. On-the-fl y image enhancementFiery Image Enhance Visual Editor enables quick, automatic adjustment of image
colors in a job (including red-eye correction) without the need to open the fi le in
the originating application.
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2. Print fi les right the fi rst time, every timeThe Fiery Graphic Arts Package, Premium Edition provides a set of expert-level tools that
provide control of output quality, repeatability, consistency. Applications such as Prefl ight
and ImageViewer allow you to preview output and troubleshoot digital print jobs, catching
problems before they result in bad prints that must be reprinted to satisfy the print buyer.
3. A powerful makeready option to produce di� erentiated outputAdd Fiery JobMaster to o� er advanced PDF makeready capabilities such as insertion of tab
pages without the need to design them in the native application, multi-bank and bleed-
edge tab setup, page merging, media assignment, fi nishing, page numbering, plus hard-
copy scanning and cleanup. This allows you to produce jobs completely inline and reduce
labor costs on manual tab insertion.
4. Accelerated production with prepress workfl ow automationAdd Fiery JobFlow for cost-e� ective, advanced prepress capabilities. You can easily
confi gure automated job workfl ows including PDF conversion, prefl ight, correction
and editing of PDF fi les, image enhancement, document imposition, plus approval
and job ticketing.
5. Secure storage for print fi lesThe optional removable hard disk drive allows you to lock the server drive into the system
for normal operation and remove it to a secure location after powering down the server.
Xerox EX 80 Print Server: Optional featuresThe Xerox EX 80 Print Server o� ers optional software and hardware solutions that add advanced prepress, makeready, automation and workfl ow integration for high-production print facilities. These features are are not available on the Xerox EX-i 80 Print Server.
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1. Upgrade to the Xerox Performance PackageThe Xerox Performance Package option delivers higher ROI with powerful tools for
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Server comparison
FIERY PLATFORMXEROX EX 80 PRINT SERVER — EXTERNAL
XEROX EX 80 PRINT SERVER WITH PERFORMANCE PACKAGE OPTION
XEROX EX-i 80 PRINT SERVER — EMBEDDED
Fiery Software Fiery FS150 Pro Fiery FS150 Pro Fiery FS150
Operating SystemMicrosoft Windows 7 Professional FES x64
Microsoft Windows 7 Professional FES x64
Linux
RAM/Hard Disk Drive (HDD) 4 GB/ 1 TB SATA 4 GB/ 1 TB SATA 2 GB/ 500 GB SATA
Removable HDD OPTIONAL OPTIONAL Not Available
Removable Storage DVD-RW/CD-RW DVD-RW/CD-RW Not Available
