California-based wide-format printer manufacturer EFI announces an expansion of its existing partnership with Japan-based Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A. Under terms of the new agreement, Konica Minolta will be reselling cloud-based EFI workflow packages to its customer base.

Konica Minolta currently resells EFI Fiery digital front ends for Konica Minolta's bizhub digital printers and presses, along with EFI Digital StoreFront web-to-print software and EFI wide-format printers. With the new arrangement, Konica Minolta will help customers automate their business operations using one of three print workflow offerings featuring either EFI PrintSmith Vision MIS and Digital StoreFront software or EFI Pace MIS/ERP software.

According to the two companies, the offerings—sold as the PrintSmith Bundle, Premium Pace Bundle and Enterprise Pace Bundle for Konica Minolta—give customers significant benefits with streamlined, integrated job submission, estimating, accounting, scheduling and more, including integration with EFI Fiery color management capabilities for digital printing. The bundles are delivered as an out-of-the-box solution that can be up and running quickly. In addition to these new MIS offerings, Konica Minolta will resell Digital StoreFront in new Digital StoreFront Entry Level, Core and Digital Marketing Bundles.

The new EFI MIS workflow bundles are available now from Konica Minolta and authorized Konica Minolta resellers.