Epson acquires Fiery

[jwheeler]

Just as the title says...Epson is going through the process of acquiring Fiery and it's expected to be done in 2024. This must be why EFI separated from Fiery last year.

This seems like it could create some conflicts with all of the other printing equipment manufacturers who sell printers with Fiery controllers since Epson also makes printing equipment. This would be like Konica Minolta selling Xerox controllers with their presses. It will be interesting to see how this plays out.

More info:

Press release from Epson

Press release from Fiery

Fiery also posted this and Epson posted this on LinkedIn in case you want to see how people are responding there.

 

[SoggyWinter]

I wonder if we'll see Epson get into the production cutsheet game?

 

[pippip]

Interesting move but doubt it will change anything. You don't buy a company and then shut out your clients.

Sure in the wide format market Epson have provided print heads to opposition for years.

 

[SoggyWinter]

Interesting move but doubt it will change anything. You don't buy a company and then shut out your clients.

Sure in the wide format market Epson have provided print heads to opposition for years.

Agreed
Epson will get
-usage data from fiery driven devices connected to the internet, which would be most of them
-Fiery's patents
-steady re-occuring revenue
-A more mature RIP

 

[PricelineNegotiator]

Agreed
Epson will get
-usage data from fiery driven devices connected to the internet, which would be most of them
-Fiery's patents
-steady re-occuring revenue
-A more mature RIP

EFI seems like it's been in autopilot for a while. Still can't sort my Hot Folders by name! I suggested that to them at least 7 years ago!

 

[kslight]

EFI seems like it's been in autopilot for a while. Still can't sort my Hot Folders by name! I suggested that to them at least 7 years ago!

Now to be fair, every few years they do throw a fresh coat of paint on and add some bugs in to keep it interesting.

 

[tngcas]

Is it bad that my greatest hope is that they leave the thing alone and don't try to "fix it" - Like yeah, I know it's got bugs but every company that has tried to "fix" something lately just made it worse (Looking at you FedEx Shipping UI people).

 

[PrePressin'MyLuck]

Upgrade: To replace a simple system that works with a complicated one that doesn't.

 

[ReproElectroProspero]

Man it took me 10 years to move to a position where I can choose our RIPS, and I finally got rid of xerox freeflow in favor of Fiery. I really hope that this change in ownership doesn't make me immediately regret it.

 

[MailGuru]

Man it took me 10 years to move to a position where I can choose our RIPS, and I finally got rid of xerox freeflow in favor of Fiery. I really hope that this change in ownership doesn't make me immediately regret it.

I think you'll be ok. Pretty much anything is better than freeflow

 

[PrePressin'MyLuck]

We just got rid of an old version of TrueFlow about a year ago or so. Sighs of relief throughout Prepress. Still have an older FreeFlow Makeready we use to feed some Oce black and white presses with though.