Electronics For Imaging, Inc.

Electronics For Imaging, Inc. (EFI) is a digital printing technology company founded in 1989 in San Francisco by Israeli entrepreneur Efraim "Efi" Arazi. It was headquartered in Fremont, California and is now headquartered in Londonderry, New Hampshire. EFI was formerly publicly traded on NASDAQ (EFII) and was taken private in April 2019 by private-equity firm Siris Capital Group (with CPP Investments) in an all-cash deal valued at roughly $1.7 billion; it remains a Siris portfolio company. Reported revenue was about $1.0 billion in FY2018, with roughly 3,600 employees at that time; headcount has since fallen, with third-party estimates in the 1,200–2,700 range.

Operations. EFI makes industrial digital inkjet printing equipment, inks, and related workflow technology. Product lines include the VUTEk wide/superwide-format display-graphics printers, Reggiani textile printers, Nozomi single-pass corrugated-packaging presses, Cretaprint ceramic-tile printers, and Cubik building-materials décor systems, plus UV, UV-LED, and water-based inks. Its Fiery business produced digital front ends (DFEs/print servers) used with OEM presses from Xerox, Canon, Ricoh, and Konica Minolta. EFI divested its productivity-software unit (eProductivity Software) to Symphony Technology Group in 2022, and in January 2023 separated Fiery into an independent, Siris-owned company, leaving EFI focused on industrial inkjet.

Litigation posture. EFI is an operating company, not an assertion entity: the tracked data show three plaintiff cases and one defendant case. All four revolve around RAH Color Technologies LLC, a patent-assertion entity. EFI filed declaratory-judgment actions against RAH (including in the Eastern District of Virginia, a fast-track patent venue, later transferred to the Northern District of California), while simultaneously appearing as a defendant alongside Adobe in RAH Color Technologies LLC v. Adobe Inc. et al. (N.D. Cal., 2018). The pattern — a manufacturer filing DJ actions against an NPE that is also suing it and its industry peers — is consistent with a defensive response rather than an offensive licensing campaign. The cases reflect EFI's color-imaging and print-processing technology.

Figures not verifiable from primary sources (current revenue, current headcount) are stated as estimates.