From Printweek.com:
Scitex and EFI founder Efi Arazi dies at
76
Digital pre-press and
print pioneer Efi Arazi, founder of both Scitex and
Electronics for Imaging (EFI) and father of Israel's high-tech
industry, has passed away, aged 76.
Arazi, whose first print technology firm Scitex exploded onto
the scene at Drupa 1982, was both a technological genius and a charismatic and
highly successful entrepreneur.
Scitex, which was Israel's first high-tech firm, was responsible
for creating and leading the digital color pre-press market in the 1980s
following the launch of its Response system at the GEC exhibition in Milan in
1979.
Arazi left Scitex in 1988 and founded EFI the following year.
EFI launched the industry's first color server, EFI Fiery, in 1991 and in 1994
was featured in Fortune magazine as the
fastest growing US public company (just two years after its IPO).
EFI entered the wide-format sector in 1996 with the launch of the Fiery XJ-W and launched its first workflow, Oneflow, in 2002.
EFI entered the wide-format sector in 1996 with the launch of the Fiery XJ-W and launched its first workflow, Oneflow, in 2002.
Arazi was most recently chairman of Israeli firm SeeRun, which
developed a new technology to monitor and manage business processes.
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