EFI announced that Repro India, Ltd. of Mumbai is implementing a full suite of EFI solutions (including EFI Monarch, EFI Digital StoreFront, and EFI PrintFlow) to provide an integrated management system that will keep pace with its current growth and meet future needs. Repro India offers design and prepress services, sheetfed and web offset printing, digital printing, postpress, and last-mile logistics. Repro India produces annual reports, IT manuals, catalogs, and magazines and is one of India’s largest producers of educational books for the global market.

Repro India selected the EFI Monarch print MIS solution to manage its multi-plant, multi-technology business. In addition to EFI Monarch’s reputation in the marketplace, Repro India was attracted by the wide range of additional integrated modules available for Monarch (such as scheduling, direct machine interface, and Web storefronts) as well as the ability of the software to address international business requirements such as currency, language, and taxes. The company also needed to manage digital and offset print production from a single interface, so Monarch’s support of industry standards such as JDF was a critical decision factor as well.

Repro India has installed EFI Monarch in both of its plants, including the shop floor data collection capability. This has given the company better control over its production operation, more flexibility in planning, and the scalability that will ensure that its systems are positioned for future growth.

In addition to Monarch, Repro India is piloting the Digital Storefront Web-to-print platform, with two customer profiles created and beta use started.  The company is also piloting the adoption of planning and scheduling practices using EFI’s PrintFlow dynamic scheduling module. Next up is Auto-Count, which will accurately track actual production with a direct machine interface to the shop floor. Repro India is also using PrinterSite Internal to make it easier for its sales representatives around the globe to process requests for customer estimates from the field. With PrinterSite Fulfillment, the firm will be able to integrate its fulfillment operation into the overall customer offering.