UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington D.C. 20549

Form 10-K

Commission File Number: 0-18805

ELECTRONICS FOR IMAGING, INC.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

(650) 357- 3500

(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

None.

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Act:

Common Stock, $.01 Par Value

(Title of Class)

      Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports) and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days.     Yes þ          No o

      Indicate by check mark if disclosure of delinquent filers pursuant to Item 405 of Regulation S-K is not contained herein, and will not be contained, to the best of registrant’s knowledge, in definitive proxy or information statements incorporated by reference in Part III of this Form 10-K or any amendment to this Form 10-K.     o

      Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an accelerated filer (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act).     Yes þ          No o

      The aggregate market value of the voting and non-voting common equity held by non-affiliates of the registrant computed by reference to the price at which the common equity was last sold on June 30, 2004.

Common Stock, $.01 par value: $841,448,848**

      The number of shares outstanding of each of the registrant’s classes of common stock as of February 22, 2005.

Common Stock, $.01 par value: 54,041,689

DOCUMENTS INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE

      Portions of the definitive Proxy Statement to be delivered to stockholders in connection with the Annual Meeting of Stockholders to be held on June 2, 2005 are incorporated by reference into Part III hereof.

PART I

      This Annual Report on Form 10-K includes certain registered trademarks and tradenames of Electronics for Imaging, Inc., its subsidiaries (collectively, “EFI” or “the Company”) and others. Auto-Count, ColorCal, ColorWise, Command WorkStation, EDOX, EFI, Fiery, the Fiery logo, MicroPress, Printcafe, PrinterSite, Prograph, Proteus, Spot-On, Bestcolor, AutoCal, Digital StoreFront, DocStream, Fiery Link, FreeForm, Hagen OA, Intelligent Device Management, Logic, OneFlow, PrintFlow, PrintMe, PrintSmith Site, PrintSmith, PSI Flexo, PSI, SendMe, Splash, VisualCal, the EFI logo, Essential to Print, Best, the Best logo, Colorproof, PhotoXposure, Remoteproof, and Screenproof are trademarks of the Company. All other terms and product names may be registered trademarks or trademarks of their respective owners, and are hereby acknowledged.

      Certain of the information contained in this Annual Report on Form 10-K, including without limitation, statements made under this Part I, Item 1 “Business” and Part II, Item 7, “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” and Item 7A, “Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures about Market Risk” which are not historical facts, may include “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended and is subject to certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially. When used herein, the words “anticipate,” “believe,” “estimate,” “expect,” “intend,” “will” and similar expressions as they relate to the Company or its management are intended to identify such statements as “forward-looking statements.” Such statements reflect the current views of the Company and its management with respect to future events and are subject to certain risks, uncertainties and assumptions. Should one or more of these risks or uncertainties materialize, or should underlying assumptions prove incorrect, the Company’s actual results, performance or achievements could differ materially from the results expressed in, or implied by, these forward-looking statements. Important factors that could cause the Company’s actual results to differ materially from those included in the forward-looking statements made herein include, without limitation, those factors discussed in Item 1 “Business — Competition,” in Item 7 “Management’s Discussion and Results of Operations — Factors That Could Adversely Affect Performance” and elsewhere in this Annual Report on Form 10-K and in the Company’s other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including the Company’s most recent Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q. The Company assumes no obligation to update these forward-looking statements to reflect actual results or changes in factors or assumptions affecting such forward-looking statements.

Filings

      We file annual reports, quarterly reports, proxy statements and other documents with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (Exchange Act). The public may read and copy any materials that we file with the SEC at the SEC’s Public Reference Room at 450 Fifth Street N.W., Washington, D.C. 20549. The public may obtain information on the operation of the Public Reference Room by calling the SEC at 1-800-SEC-0330. Also, the SEC maintains an Internet website that contains reports, proxy and information statements and other information regarding issuers, including EFI, that file electronically with the SEC. The public can obtain any documents that we file with the SEC at http://www.sec.gov.

      We also make available free of charge through our Internet website (http://www.efi.com) our Annual Report on Form 10-K, Quarterly Reports on Form  10-Q, Current Reports on Form 8-K and, if applicable, amendments to those reports filed or furnished pursuant to the Exchange Act as soon as reasonably practicable after we electronically file such material with, or furnish it to, the SEC.

General

      EFI was incorporated in Delaware in 1989. Our corporate offices are located at 303 Velocity Way, Foster City, California 94404.

      We are a global provider of digital imaging and print management solutions for professional and enterprise printing. Our technologies offer document management tools from creation to print, including production workflow, print management information software solutions, proofing software and enterprise printing solutions. Our main products include stand-alone servers, which are connected to digital copiers; and other peripheral devices, controllers and chip designs, which are embedded in digital copiers, desktop color laser printers and multifunction devices. Our software products and services are designed to help customers automate their print processes and streamline their workflow to increase productivity and profits. Our products support a broad range of printers, copiers, and multifunctional devices. The growth of digital color printing, driven both by Internet usage and the adoption of color within the corporate market, provides us with a tremendous opportunity to leverage our core color server technology.

      We sell our server products primarily to original equipment manufacturers, or OEMs, such as Canon, Xerox, Konica Minolta and others, in North America, Europe and Japan. OEMs sell equipment under their brand name to the end-user. In some instances, their equipment carries both their own brand name and our brand name. Our Print Management Information Solutions are primarily sold directly to the end user by EFI’s own sales force, under our brand. Our other products are sold directly to our authorized distributors/dealers/resellers who in turn sell the solutions to end users either in a stand alone form or bundled with other solutions they offer, using our brand name in most instances.

The EFI Solution

      Headlined by EFI’s flagship Fiery® server brand, our core business transforms digital copiers and printers into networked printing devices. Once networked, EFI-powered printers and copiers can be shared across workgroups, departments, the enterprise and the Internet to quickly and economically produce high-quality color and black & white documents. Our products enhance productivity across the production printing job cycle, from pre-press to digital or offset print production. EFI’s consistent, intuitive user interfaces are designed to reduce the potential for operator error, reduce training times, streamline complex job cycles, and decrease job completion time in order to improve maximum productivity and profitability.

      In addition to our core server and controller technology, we have diversified into other areas, with a particular emphasis on developing software solutions for commercial printing and enterprise markets. Most of the additional software solutions have been developed with the express goal of automating print processes and streamlining workflow via open, integrated and interoperable EFI products, services and solutions.

      Our proofing software allows professional printers to accurately and affordably proof color documents before sending them to an offset or digital printing press. By skipping traditional proofing methods, professional printers save time and reduce costs — without sacrificing the quality of their final printed output.

      Finally, a significant new business area is our Print Management Information Systems (“PMIS”) solutions with products obtained through the acquisition of Printcafe in late 2003. Over the course of 2004, we have updated and upgraded nearly all of these products and have seen substantially increased sales from these products. Our enterprise resource planning (ERP) and collaborative supply chain software print management solutions in this business area are designed to enable printers and print buyers to improve productivity and customer service while reducing costs. Procurement applications for print buyers and print producers facilitate Web-based collaboration across the print supply chain. Customers recognize that PMIS systems are essential to improving their business practices and profitability and we are continuing to focus on making EFI’s PMIS solutions the industry standard globally as well as in the U.S. where we already enjoy a leading market position.

      To service one of the critical needs of the copier dealer channels that we sell through, we offer field dispatch software which automates the management of field technicians. This product came to EFI via the acquisition of Automated Dispatch Systems, Inc. (“ADS”) and extends our software offerings into another mission critical application for the print industry.

      See “Products and Technology.”

Growth and Expansion Strategies

      Our overall objective is to continue to introduce new generations of server and controller products as well as expand our offerings in professional printing software applications and other new product lines related to digital printing, workflow and print management. With respect to our current products, our primary goal is to offer best of breed, end-to-end solutions that are interoperable and conform to open standards to allow customers to choose the most efficient solutions for their business. Our strategy to accomplish these goals consists of four key elements.

      We intend to continue to develop new products that are “scalable”, meaning products that continue to meet the changing needs of the user as their business grows. Our products offer a broad range of features and functionality when connected to, or integrated with, digital color and black-and-white copiers, as well as desktop color laser printers and offset presses. Historically, we sold products that supported digital color copiers. We have since expanded our line of color servers to drive a wide range of output devices and developed products that support black-and-white printing systems and copiers. New generations of our products are introduced as we integrate improvements into our designs. Among the products launched in 2004 were the Fiery Q5000, a high performance server designed for color production class engines and digital presses and the Fiery System 6 with advanced controls for Graphic Art Professionals.

      We intend to develop platform enhancements that advance the performance and usability of our servers and embedded controllers and new software applications that provide cohesive, end-to-end solutions for our customers. In 2004 we added PrinterSite Exchange, which provides web-based job submission, ticketing and status tracking as well as integrating with our back-end business management systems to our workflow software products. In addition we released a new version of our OneFlow prepress workflow software and an upgrade to our PrintFlow dynamic scheduling application. PrintSmith 7.0, our print MIS software, was launched in 2004 with a new user interface and additional features to improve its performance. In 2004 we announced the release of Colorproof XF, a server-based proofing solution that scales to the needs of commercial printers of all sizes.

      Our acquisition of ADS in early 2004 added complementary technology to our line up. ADS software automates and optimizes industry-standard processes surrounding service dispatch, field service, help desks, parts replenishment, credit collection and meter billing.

      We have established relationships with leading printer and copier industry companies, including Canon, Fuji-Xerox, Hewlett-Packard, Konica Minolta, Océ, Ricoh, Toshiba and Xerox, who we collectively refer to as our OEM customers. Sales to each of the listed OEM customers accounted for at least 2% of our revenues in 2004 and collectively sales to such OEM customers accounted for over 74% of our revenues in 2004. Additionally, we have established relationships with many leading distribution companies in the office, graphic arts and commercial print industries such as IKON, Danka Business Systems, Kodak Polychrome Graphics, Enovation and others who distribute our products. We seek to establish new relationships and expand our existing relationships with our OEM and distribution partners and other customers in pursuit of the goal of offering our controller and server products as well as our software technology for optimizing the management and creation of documents in a variety of print environments. Our relationships with our OEM customers are based upon business relationships we have established over time. However, our agreements with such OEM customers generally do not require them to make any future purchases from us and our OEM customers are generally free to purchase products from our competitors or build their own and cease purchasing our products at any time, for any reason or no reason.

      In our development of new products and platforms, we seek to establish coherence across our entire product line by designing products that provide a consistent “look and feel” to the end-user. We believe cross

product coherence can create higher productivity levels as a result of shortened learning curves. Additionally, we believe the end-to-end coherence that end-users can achieve using EFI products for all of their digital printing and imaging needs leads to a lower total cost of ownership by providing one source for sales, support and training. We believe that our effort to achieve coherence engenders goodwill among our OEM customers and other customers and end-users of our products and assists in the development of new strategic relationships and markets for us. We also advocate open architecture utilizing industry-established standards to provide inter-operability across a range of digital printing devices and software applications, ultimately providing end-users more choice and flexibility in their selection of products.

      We have assembled, organically and through acquisitions, an experienced team of technical and sales and marketing personnel with backgrounds in color reproduction, digital pre-press, image processing, management information systems, networking and software and hardware engineering as well as market knowledge of enterprise printing, graphic arts and commercial printing. By applying our expertise in these areas, we expect to continue to expand the scope and sophistication of our products and gain access to new markets and channels of distribution.

Products and Technology

      Our technologies offer document management tools from creation to print, including high fidelity color and black-and-white Fiery print servers and controllers, production workflow and print management information software solutions for increased performance and cost efficiency and an array of business-critical enterprise solutions. Given the breadth of our product offerings, we believe our products are attractive to a variety of end users, including multimedia authors, advertising agencies, print-for-pay businesses, graphic designers, pre-press providers, commercial printers and small to large businesses.

      Our print servers and controllers provide solutions for a broad range of the printing market — from entry level desktop printers to production level digital copiers. Our main server and controller solutions are the Fiery X3e, Fiery X4, Fiery X5, Fiery S300, Fiery S350, Fiery S500, Fiery Q4000, Fiery Q4500, Fiery Q5000, EDOX 4, DocStream 4, Splash G640, Splash G3535 and MicroPress 6.3.

      Print servers permit users of digital copiers to transmit and convert digital data from a computer to a color or black-and-white copier so that the copier can print documents easily, quickly and cost-effectively. As a result, our servers transform digital copiers into fast, high-quality network printers. In addition to servers for digital color and black-and-white copiers, we have leveraged our technology to develop and manufacture other products that support digital printing.

      Since the introduction of the first Fiery color server in 1991, we have expanded our color server product line. During 2004, we focused our development efforts in this area on improvements to our color server products’ performance, features and ease of use and introduced the Fiery Q5000 server. The Q5000, combined with the new Fiery 6 Software and the Fiery Graphic Arts Package, Premium Edition, offers workflow control, color management and variable data printing support for high volume production environments. The EFI MicroPress 6.3 was also launched in 2004, offering expanded engine support and greater workflow efficiency for this digital prepress and workflow management solution. In 2004, we shipped stand-alone color servers for use with color copiers, color inkjet printers and wide-format color printers distributed by Canon, Fuji-Xerox, Konica Minolta, Océ, Ricoh, Toshiba, Ikon Office Solutions, Sharp, Xerox and others. In 2004, we also shipped servers for use with digital black-and-white copiers distributed by Canon, Fuji-Xerox, Konica Minolta, Ricoh and Xerox.

      Unlike our Fiery, EDOX, MicroPress and Splash servers, which are sold as stand-alone products that are connected to copiers and printers, embedded controllers are designed to go inside copiers, desktop printers and multifunctional devices manufactured by our OEM customers. Our OEM customers can manufacture their own controllers using our design and proprietary application specific integrated circuits, or ASICS under our design-licensed model, or purchase the fully manufactured embedded controllers on a turnkey basis from us. Color controllers allow users to print documents directly from their computers to the digital color copier, desktop color laser printers and color multifunctional devices. We have also leveraged our color technology to provide embedded controllers and design-licensed solutions for digital black-and-white copiers and laser printers. Our black-and-white controllers permit users of digital copiers to transmit and convert digital data from a computer to a black-and-white copier or printer to print documents easily, quickly and cost-effectively in enterprise and professional environments. The Fiery X3e, an embedded controller, allows users to efficiently print large quantities of color documents in corporate environments. We also offer a black-and-white version of the Fiery X3e.

      All of our server and controller products incorporate proprietary features. Examples of such features include:

      In addition to such proprietary innovations, we custom design our products to increase productivity. We expect to continue to refine these printing technologies and to develop new printing technologies.

      In an effort to provide our customers with end-to-end print solutions, we have developed technology that enhances printing workflow and makes printing production more powerful, productive and easier to manage from one centralized user interface. Examples of such technologies include:

      Our enterprise resource planning and collaborative supply chain software solutions enable printers and print buyers to improve productivity and lower costs.

      Our PMIS products include EFI Hagen OA, Logic, PSI, PrintSmith, PrintFlow and other solutions that improve management information systems for graphic arts and commercial printers of all sizes. These solutions allow printers to optimize the process of cost estimation and job quotes helping to protect their margins while providing competitive bids on print jobs, as well as providing accounting and production management. In 2004, we launched EF Hagen OA version 8.0 with key improvements to the core features of job management, estimating, fulfillment, and the accounts receivable module to increase functionality and flexibility. PrintSmith 7.0 and 7.1 shipped during the year, with an improved user interface, cost tracking, profitability analysis, and decision making along with shop floor data collection system named “Tracker.”

      EFI PrintFlow 4.0 began shipping in 2004, offering improved real-time visibility into the production plan, multiple step scheduling and significant customization features. We also launched version 6 of EFI Prograph that offers powerful, broad planning capabilities including versioning, complex imposition and distribution tools. We also shipped an OS X compliant version of EFI Proteus, a software system that provides publishing professionals the ability to plan, position, view, and set printing press specifications for all advertising and editorial elements of a magazine, newspaper, catalog or other publication.

      In 2004, we added two products to our PrinterSite web ordering line-up: PrinterSite Fulfillment and PrinterSite Exchange. EFI PrinterSite Fulfillment is a web-based, client-facing add-on module for Hagen OA, Logic SQL and PSI print management systems. PrinterSite Fulfillment helps printers streamline inventory management and productivity while offering new value-added online fulfillment ordering services to customers. A web job submission application, EFI PrinterSite Exchange enables printing companies to easily deploy branded storefront web sites to let them transact business with customers over the Internet. We also shipped version 2.0 of EFI PrinterSite Internal in 2004, a print sales force automation system, featuring an entirely redesigned interface and more than 100 new features and enhancements.

      We also offer solutions for enterprises to improve their productivity and reduce the costs of printing and print servicing.

Significant Relationships

      We have established and continue to build and expand relationships with our OEM customers and other leading copier and printer companies, in order to benefit from their products, distribution channels and marketing resources. These customers include domestic and international manufacturers, distributors and sellers of color and black-and-white digital copiers, wide-format printers and desktop color printers. We work closely with our OEM customers with the aim of developing solutions that incorporate leading technology and that work optimally in conjunction with such companies’ products. The top 9 revenue-generating OEMs or distributors, in alphabetical order, that we sold products to in 2004 were, Canon, Fuji-Xerox, Hewlett-Packard, Ikon Office Solutions, Konica Minolta, Océ, Ricoh, Toshiba and Xerox. Together, sales to Canon, Xerox and Konica Minolta accounted for approximately 61% of our 2004 revenue, with sales to each of these three customers accounting for more than 10% of our revenue. Because sales of our printer and copier-related products constitute a significant portion of our revenues and there are a limited number of OEMs producing copiers and printers in sufficient volume to be attractive customers for us, we expect that we will continue to depend on a relatively small number of OEM customers for a significant portion of our revenues in future periods. Accordingly, if we lose or experience reduced sales to an important OEM customer, we will have difficulty replacing the revenue traditionally generated from such customer with sales to new or existing OEM customers and our revenues will likely decline significantly.

      We customarily enter into development and distribution agreements with our OEM customers. These agreements can be terminated under a range of circumstances and often upon relatively short notice. The circumstances under which an agreement can be terminated vary from agreement to agreement and there can be no assurance that our OEM customers will continue to purchase products from us in the future, despite such agreements. Furthermore, our agreements with our OEM customers generally do not commit such customers to make future purchases from us and they could decline to purchase products from us in the future and could purchase products from our competitors or build the products themselves. We recognize the importance of, and work hard to maintain, our relationships with our customers. However, our relationships with our customers are affected by a number of factors including, among others: competition from other suppliers, competition from internal development efforts by the customers themselves and changes in general economic, competitive or market conditions such as changes in demand for our or the OEM’s products, or fluctuations in currency exchange rates. There can be no assurance that we will continue to maintain or build the relationships we have developed to date. See Item 7, “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations — Factors That Could Adversely Affect Performance — We face competition from other suppliers as well as our own OEM customers and if we are not able to compete successfully then our business may be harmed.”

      We also have a continuing relationship pursuant to a license agreement with Adobe and license PostScript® software from Adobe for use in many of our controller solutions. This relationship is important because each of our controller solutions requires page description language software such as that provided by Adobe in order to operate. Adobe’s PostScript® software is widely used to manage the geometry, shape and

typography of hard copy documents and Adobe is a leader in providing page description software. Although to date we have successfully obtained licenses to use Adobe’s PostScript® software when required, Adobe is not required to and we cannot be certain that Adobe will, grant future licenses to Adobe PostScript® software on reasonable terms, in a timely manner, or at all. In addition, in order to obtain licenses from Adobe, Adobe requires that we obtain from them quality assurance approvals for our products that use Adobe software. If Adobe does not grant us such licenses or approvals, if the Adobe licenses are terminated, or if our relationship with Adobe is otherwise materially impaired, we would likely be unable to sell products that incorporate Adobe PostScript® software and our financial condition and results of operations would be significantly harmed.

Distribution and Marketing

      Our primary distribution method for our controller solutions is to sell them to our OEMs. Our OEMs in turn sell these products to OEM-affiliated and independent distributors/dealers/resellers and end-users for use with the OEMs’ copiers or printers as part of an integrated printing system. For Fiery embedded controller solutions, our primary distribution method has been to sell the products to the OEMs that embed the products into their copiers and printers. See Item 7, “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations — Factors That Could Adversely Affect Performance — We rely on sales to a relatively small number of OEM customers and the loss of any of these customers could substantially decrease our revenues.”

      Our primary distribution method for our EDOX, DocStream and MicroPress servers, our EFI Proofing Solutions and our EFI Workflow software products is to sell them directly to our authorized distributors/dealers/resellers who in turn sell the solutions to end users either in a stand alone form or bundled with other solutions they offer. Primary customers with whom we have established distribution agreements include Kodak Polychrome Graphics, Enovation, Heidelberg, Screen USA, Pitman, Presstek and others. There can be no assurance that we will continue to successfully distribute our products through these channels. Our Print Management Information Solutions are primarily sold directly to the end user by EFI’s own sales force. Any interruption of the distribution methods could negatively impact us in the future.

      We promote all of our products through public relations, direct mail, advertising, promotional material, trade shows and ongoing customer communication programs.

Research and Development

      Research and development costs for 2004, 2003 and 2002 were $111.1 million, $96.7 million and $90.0 million, respectively. As of December 31, 2004, 725 of our 1,424 full-time employees were involved in research and development. We believe that development of new products and enhancement of existing products are essential to our continued success and management intends to continue to devote substantial resources to research and new product development. We expect to make significant expenditures to support our research and development programs for the foreseeable future.

      We are developing products to support additional color and black-and-white printing devices including desktop printers, high-end color copiers, digital black-and-white copiers and multifunctional devices. This ongoing development work includes a multiprocessor architecture for high-end systems and lower-cost designs for desktop color laser printers. We are also developing new software applications designed to maximize workflow efficiencies and to meet the needs of the graphic arts and commercial print professional, including proofing solutions and print management information systems solutions. We also expect to continue to enhance functionality of our other product lines, including our enterprise solutions. See “— Growth and Expansion Strategies — Proliferate and Expand Product Lines.” Substantial additional work and expense will be required to complete and bring to market each of the products currently being developed by us See Item 7, “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations — Factors That Could Adversely Affect Performance — If we are unable to develop new products, or execute product introductions on a timely basis, our future revenue and operating results may be harmed.”

Manufacturing

      We utilize sub-contractors to manufacture our products. These sub-contractors work closely with us to promote low costs and high quality in the manufacture of our products. Sub-contractors purchase components needed for our products from third parties. We are completely dependent on the ability of our sub-contractors to produce products sold by us and although we supervise our sub-contractors, there can be no assurance that such sub-contractors will perform efficiently or effectively. A high concentration of our products is manufactured at a single sub-contractor location, Sanmina-SCI in Colorado. Should Sanmina-SCI experience any inability or unwillingness to manufacture or deliver product from this location our business, financial condition and operations could be harmed. Since we do not maintain long-term agreements with our sub-contractors, any of our sub-contractors could enter into agreements with our competitors that might restrict or prohibit such sub-contractors from manufacturing our products or could otherwise lead to an inability of such sub-contractor from filling our orders in a timely manner.

      A significant number of the components necessary for the manufacture of our products are obtained from a sole supplier or a limited group of suppliers. These include processors from Intel and other related semiconductor components. We depend largely on the following sole and limited source suppliers for our components and manufacturing services:

      We do not maintain long-term agreements with any of our suppliers of components and conduct our business with such suppliers solely on a purchase order basis. If any of our sole or limited source suppliers were unwilling or unable to supply us with the components for which we rely on them, we may be unable to continue manufacturing our products utilizing such components.

      The absence of agreements with our suppliers also subjects us to fluctuations in pricing, a factor we believe is partially offset by the fact that our suppliers benefit from selling as many components to us as possible. Many of our components are similar to those used in personal computers, and the demand and price fluctuations of personal computer components could affect our component costs. Because the purchase of key components involves long lead times, in the event of unanticipated volatility in demand for our products, we may be unable to manufacture certain products in a quantity sufficient to meet end user demand, or we may hold excess quantities of inventory. We maintain an inventory of components for which we are dependent upon sole or limited source suppliers and of components with prices that fluctuate significantly. We cannot assure you that at any given time we will have sufficient inventory to enable us to meet demand which would harm our financial results. Our inventory has represented less than 1% of our total assets and less than 2% of our total revenue for the last two years.

Human Resources

      As of December 31, 2004, we employed 1,424 full-time individuals. Of the 1,424 total employees, approximately 328 were in sales and marketing, 166 were in management and administration, 205 were in manufacturing and 725 were in research and development. Of the total number of employees, we had approximately 1,151 employees located in U.S. and Canadian offices and 273 employees located in international offices including employees based in the United Kingdom, The Netherlands, Germany, Japan, France, Italy, Spain, Australia, Korea, Singapore, Brazil, Mexico, Sweden, India, China and Hong Kong. Our employees are not represented by any collective bargaining organization and we have never experienced a work stoppage. However, there can be no assurance that collective bargaining, work stoppage or other employment related issues will not arise.

Competition

      Competition in our markets is intense and involves rapidly changing technologies and frequent new product introductions. To maintain and improve our competitive position, we must continue to develop and introduce on a timely and cost-effective basis new products and features that keep pace with the evolving needs of our customers. The principal competitive factors affecting the markets for our controller solutions include, among others, customer service and support, product reputation, quality, performance, price and product features such as functionality, scalability, ability to interface with OEM products and ease of use. We believe we have generally competed effectively in the past against product offerings of our competitors on the basis of such factors. However, there can be no assurance that we will continue to be able to compete effectively in the future based on these or any other competitive factors.

      We currently have two main product categories that support color and black-and-white printing: (i) stand-alone print servers which are connected to digital copiers and other peripheral devices and (ii) embedded and design-licensed solutions which are used in digital copiers, desktop laser printers and multifunctional devices. Our primary competitor for the stand-alone color servers is Creo although Creo currently only sells to a single OEM, Xerox, while EFI serves many industry leaders. Our OEM customers themselves, as well as Peerless and Zoran Corporation, are the principal competitors for the embedded and design-licensed color solutions. Our digital black-and-white solutions face competition from Peerless and our OEM customers. Additionally, our OEM customers and other copier and printer manufacturers offer internally developed server products or incorporate internally developed embedded solutions or server features into their copiers and printers, thereby eliminating the need for our products. Our market position vis-a-vis internally-developed controllers is small. We are, however, the largest third party controller vendor. We believe that our advantages include our continuously advancing technology, time-to-market, brand recognition, end-user loyalty, sizable installed base, number of products supported, price and market knowledge. A significant disadvantage is our lack of control of the distribution channels. We do, however, provide a variety of features as well as a unique “look and feel” to our OEMs products to differentiate their products from those of their competitors.

      Our Professional Printing Applications category, which includes our Workflow, Proofing, Print Management Information Software and Web Submission Tools, faces competition from software application vendors that specifically target the printing industry, which are typically small, privately-owned companies and from larger vendors, such as Heidelberg and SAP, who currently offer or are seeking to develop printer-focused enterprise resource planning products. We believe that the principal competitive factors affecting our market include adoption by significant number of print buyers and printers, product quality and performance, customer service, core technology, product features, price and the value of services.

      There can be no assurance that we will be able to continue to advance our technology and products or to compete effectively against other companies’ product offerings and any failure to do so could have a material adverse effect upon our business, operating results and financial condition.

Intellectual Property Rights

      We rely on a combination of patent, copyright, trademark and trade secret laws, non-disclosure agreements and other contractual provisions to establish, maintain and protect our intellectual property rights, all of which afford only limited protection. As of December 31, 2004, we had 132 issued U.S. patents, 84 pending U.S. patent applications and various foreign counterpart patents and applications. There can be no assurance that patents will issue from these pending applications or from any future applications or that, if issued, any claims allowed will be sufficiently broad to protect our technology. Our issued U.S. patents expire between December 11, 2005 and November 4, 2022. Our failure to obtain or maintain patent protection may make it easier for our competitors to offer equivalent or superior technology. In addition, third parties may independently develop similar technology without misappropriation of our trade secrets or breach of other proprietary rights. Any failure by us to take all necessary steps to protect our trade secrets or other intellectual property rights and failure to enforce these rights may have a material adverse effect on our ability to compete in our markets.

      We have registered certain trademarks, which include, among others, our EFI, EFI and Design, Electronics For Imaging (stylized), Fiery, Fiery and Design, Fiery Driven, Fiery Driven and Design, Fiery Spark and Design, Colorcal, ColorWise, Command Workstation, Bestcolor, EDOX, MicroPress, Mousitometer, Printcafe, PrinterSite, PrintMe, Splash. Spot-On and RIP-While-Print trademarks and have applied for registration of certain additional trademarks, in the United States and/or in foreign jurisdictions. We will continue to evaluate the registration of additional trademarks as appropriate. Any failure by us to properly register or maintain our trademarks or to otherwise take all necessary steps to protect our trademarks may diminish the value associated with our trademarks. Our products include software sold pursuant to “shrink wrap” licenses that are not signed by the end user and, therefore, may be unenforceable under the laws of certain jurisdictions. In addition, the laws of some foreign countries, including several in which we operate or sell our products, do not protect intellectual property and proprietary rights to as great an extent as do the laws of the United States.

      From time to time, litigation may be necessary to defend and enforce our proprietary rights. Such litigation, whether or not concluded successfully for us, could involve significant expense and the diversion of management’s attention and other resources. See Item 7, “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations — Factors That Could Adversely Affect Performance — We may be unable to adequately protect our proprietary information and may incur expenses to defend our proprietary information.”

Risk Factors

      In addition to the above information, a discussion of factors that may adversely affect our future performance and financial results can be found in this Report under the heading “Factors That Could Adversely Affect Performance” in Item 7, “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operation.”

Financial Information About Foreign and Domestic Operations and Export Sales

      See Note 12 of the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements. See also Item 7 “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations — Factors That Could Adversely Affect Performance — We face risks from our international operations and from currency fluctuations.”

      Our principal offices are located at 303 Velocity Way, Foster City, California on approximately 35 acres of land which we own. The corporate headquarters facility, which we lease, includes approximately 295,000 square feet completed in 1999 and 165,000 square feet of additional facilities completed in 2001. In January 2001 we purchased facilities with approximately 44,000 square feet in Minneapolis, Minnesota. In addition to the Foster City and Minneapolis facilities, we have leased facilities in Parsippany, New Jersey; Vancouver, Washington; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Lebanon, New Hampshire; Phoenix, Arizona; Ratigen, Germany; Bangalore, India and Amsterdam, The Netherlands. We also lease a number of domestic and international sales offices. For additional information on our lease obligations see Item 7, “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations — Liquidity and Capital Resources.”

      We believe that our facilities, in general, are adequate for our present and currently foreseeable future needs.

      Over the past several years, Mr. Jan R. Coyle, an individual living in Nevada, has repeatedly demanded that we buy technology allegedly invented by his company, Kolbet Labs. In December 2001, Mr. Coyle threatened to sue us and our customers for allegedly infringing his soon to be issued patent and for allegedly misappropriating his alleged trade secrets. We believe Mr. Coyle’s claims are baseless and completely without merit. Therefore, on December 11, 2001, we filed a declaratory relief action in the United States District

Court for the Northern District of California, asking the Court to declare that we and our customers have not breached any nondisclosure agreement with Mr. Coyle or Kolbet Labs, nor have we infringed any alleged patent or misappropriated any alleged trade secrets belonging to Mr. Coyle or Kolbet Labs through our sale of Fiery, Splash or EDOX print controllers. We also sought an injunction enjoining both Mr. Coyle and Kolbet Labs from bringing or threatening to bring a lawsuit against us, our suppliers, vendors, customers and users of our products for breach of contract and misappropriation of trade secrets. On March  26, 2002, the Northern District of California Court dismissed our complaint citing the Court’s lack of jurisdiction over Mr. Coyle. We appealed the Court’s dismissal to the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington D.C., who reversed the dismissal of our case and remanded it back to the Northern District of California Court. Mr. Coyle and Kolbet Labs subsequently moved to dismiss our complaint under the Declaratory Judgment Act. The Court granted dismissal on February 17, 2004. We again appealed to the Federal Circuit, which again reversed and remanded the case on January 5, 2005 finding that our declaratory action comported with the Declaratory Judgment Act. The Federal Circuit further noted that the Declaratory Judgment Act was indeed intended for the very situation we faced. Meanwhile, on February 17, 2004, we filed a second declaratory relief action in the Northern District of California against Mr. Coyle and Kolbet Labs. In light of the Federal Circuit’s decision to remand the original action, we dismissed this second action voluntarily and are now pursuing all of our claims in the original action.

      On February 26, 2002, Mr. Coyle’s company, J&L Electronics, filed a complaint against us in the United States District Court for the District of Nevada alleging patent infringement, breach of non-disclosure agreements, misappropriation of trade secrets, violations of federal antitrust law and related causes of action. We denied all of the allegations and believed this lawsuit to be without merit. On March 28, 2003, the Federal District Judge dismissed the complaint for lack of jurisdiction over us. J&L Electronics appealed the dismissal to the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. On February 9, 2004, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed the dismissal of J&L Electronics’ complaint. J&L appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court who denied their petition on January 12, 2004. Although Mr. Coyle lost both of his appeals in the Nevada action, he caused J&L Electronics to initiate yet another legal action, this time in Arizona.

      On May 3, 2004, J&L Electronics, filed a complaint against us in the United States District Court for the District of Arizona alleging patent infringement, breach of non-disclosure agreements, misappropriation of trade secrets, violations of federal antitrust law and related causes of action. We moved to have that legal action dismissed or transferred to California. On January 19, 2005, the Arizona court ordered the action transferred to the United States Court for the District of Northern California. We intend to move the court to combine our original action with the now-transferred Arizona action. We believe that the claims in the transferred Arizona action are without merit and plan to vigorously pursue dismissal of these claims in the consolidated action.

      On June 25, 2003, a securities class action complaint was filed against Printcafe Software, Inc., now our wholly owned subsidiary and certain of Printcafe’s officers in the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania. The complaint alleges that the defendants violated Sections 11, 12(a)(2) and 15 of the Securities Act of 1933 due to allegedly false and misleading statements in connection with Printcafe’s initial public offering and subsequent press releases. We acquired Printcafe in October 2003. On June 28, 2004, an amended complaint was filed in the action adding additional Printcafe directors as defendants. While we believe this lawsuit is without merit, the parties have reached an agreement in principle to fully and finally resolve this litigation, subject to the Court’s approval of the proposed class action settlement. We anticipate executing a written Stipulation and Settlement Agreement and jointly moving for the Court’s preliminary approval of the settlement with the next 90 days. If preliminarily approved by the Court a final fairness hearing will be scheduled accordingly.

      Because of the uncertainties related to both the amount and range of loss on the pending litigation matters, we are unable to make a reasonable estimate of the liability that could result from an unfavorable outcome. However, we have reserved the minimum amount that we could be expected to pay under the two cases discussed above. Pending or future litigation could be costly, could cause the diversion of management’s attention and could upon resolution, have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations financial condition and cash flow.

      In addition, the Company is involved from time to time in litigation relating to claims arising in the normal course of its business.

      None.

PART II

      Our common stock was first traded on the Nasdaq National Market under the symbol EFII on October 2, 1992. The table below lists the high and low sales price during each quarter the stock was traded in 2004 and 2003.

      As of February 3, 2005, there were 239 stockholders of record. Because many of such shares are held by brokers and other institutions on behalf of stockholders, we are unable to estimate the total number of stockholders represented by these record holders.

      We have never paid cash dividends on our capital stock. We currently anticipate that we will retain all available funds for our business and do not anticipate paying any cash dividends in the foreseeable future.

Equity Compensation Plan Information

      Information regarding our equity compensation plans may be found in Item 12 of this annual report on Form 10-K and is incorporated herein by this reference.

Purchases of Equity Securities

Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities

      The following table summarizes selected consolidated financial data as of and for the five years ended December 31, 2004. This information should be read in conjunction with the audited consolidated financial statements and related notes thereto.

      The following discussion and analysis should be read in conjunction with the audited consolidated financial statements and related notes thereto included in this Annual Report on Form 10K.

      All assumptions, anticipations, expectations and forecasts contained herein are forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. Our actual results could differ materially from those discussed here. For a discussion of the factors that could impact our results, readers are referred to the section below entitled “Factors that Could Adversely Affect Performance. ‘”

Overview

      In 2004, we were able to post an additional four quarters of increased gross margins, due to the favorable impact of increased sales of our software products. The last quarter marked the 16th consecutive quarter of improvement in gross margins. While we expect that our gross margins will stay near the current level, our gross margins are subject to volatility due to product mix.

      The year started out with strong sales with each of the first two quarters providing increased revenues from the same two quarters in 2003. However, during the third quarter and continuing through the fourth quarter, our revenues declined. The decline was due to several factors — the delayed introduction of the latest version of ColorProof, the softness in sales to one of our OEM customers, the pushing out of a number of scheduled OEM product launches, the lack of new engine (copier/printer) introductions and a continued weakness in production class and mid-range devices. We saw organic growth (revenue in excess of amounts reported in previous period, whether by acquirer or acquiree) in our Professional Printing Applications for both our internally developed products and the products acquired from Printcafe last year. In our Embedded Products category we continued to see a shift from our embedded products to our design-licensed solutions.

      We anticipate that our OEM customers will introduce several mid-range to high-end engines in the second half of 2005 and the first half of 2006 from which we should benefit. We are slowly gaining market share in the ultra high-end production market and hope to increase our competitiveness in the lower-end office printer & copier market by offering more office-centric feature sets.

      Our operating expenses grew from 52% of revenue in 2003 to 58% of revenue in 2004, excluding the charges we expensed related to our real estate and synthetic leases. The increased expenses were the result of increased headcount to support our expanding product lines, increased promotional costs and increased accounting and legal fees. The increased accounting fees are related to compliance with the Sarbanes Oxley Act of 2002 and the legal fees relate to litigation support.

      In December we announced that we would cut expenses in underperforming areas. In January 2005 we reduced our headcount by about 5%.

Critical Accounting Policies

      The preparation of the consolidated financial statements, which are the basis of the following discussion and analysis, requires us to make estimates and judgments that affect the reported amounts of assets, liabilities, revenues and expenses and related disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities. We evaluate our estimates, including those related to bad debts, inventories, intangible assets, income taxes, warranty obligations, purchase commitments, revenue recognition and contingencies. The estimates are based upon historical experience and on various other assumptions that are believed to be reasonable under the circumstances at the time of the estimate, the results of which form the basis for making judgments about the carrying values of assets and liabilities that are not readily apparent from other sources. Actual results may differ from these estimates under different assumptions or conditions.

      The following are believed to be our critical accounting policies and estimates:

      Revenue recognition. We derive our revenue primarily from product revenue, which primarily includes servers, controllers, and design-licensed solutions (“hardware”), and software and royalties. We also receive services and support revenue from software license maintenance agreements, customer support and training and consulting. As described below, significant management judgments and estimates must be made and used in connection with the revenue recognized in any accounting period. Material differences could result in the amount and timing of our revenue for any period if our management made different judgments or utilized different estimates.

      We apply the provisions of Statement of Position 97-2, Software Revenue Recognition (“SOP 97-2”), as amended by Statement of Position 98-9, Modification of SOP 97-2, Software Recognition, With Respect to Certain Transactions, to all transactions involving the sale of software products and hardware transactions where the software is not incidental.

      We recognize revenue from the sale of servers, controllers and design-licensed solutions when persuasive evidence of an arrangement exists, the product has been delivered, the fee is fixed or determinable and collection of the resulting receivable is reasonably assured. Delivery generally occurs when product is delivered to the customer’s common carrier. We assess whether the fee is fixed or determinable based on the terms of the contract or purchase order. We assess collection based on a number of factors, including past transaction history with the customer and the credit-worthiness of the customer. We do not request collateral from our customers. If we determine that collection of a fee is not reasonably assured, we defer the fee and recognize revenue at the time collection becomes reasonably assured, which is generally upon receipt of cash.

      For all sales, we use either a binding purchase order or signed contract as evidence of an arrangement. Sales through some of our OEMs are evidenced by a master agreement governing the relationship together with binding purchase orders on a transaction by transaction basis. Our arrangements do not generally include acceptance clauses.

      We license our software under perpetual licenses. Revenue from software consists of software licensing and post-contract customer support and professional consulting. Revenue is allocated to the support elements of an agreement using vendor specific objective evidence of fair value (“VSOE”) and to the software license

portion of the agreements using the residual method. VSOE is determined based on the price charged when the element is sold separately or for post contract customer support based on substantative renewal rates. Revenue allocated to software licenses is recognized when the following four basic criteria are met: persuasive evidence of an arrangement exists, delivery has occurred, the price is fixed or determinable and collectibility is probable. Revenue allocated to post-contract support is recognized ratably over the term of the support contract (typically one to two years), assuming the four basic criteria are met. We also have subscription arrangements where the customer pays a fixed fee and receives services over a period of time. We recognize revenue from the subscriptions ratably over the service period. Any upfront setup fees associated with our subscription arrangements are recognized ratably, generally over one year.

      Allowance for doubtful accounts, inventory allowances and other allowances and accruals. To determine the need for an allowance for doubtful accounts, management must make estimates of the collectibility of our accounts receivables. To do so, management analyzes accounts receivable and historical bad debts, customer concentrations, customer credit-worthiness, current economic trends and changes in our customer payment terms when evaluating the adequacy of the allowance for doubtful accounts. Our accounts receivable balance was $41.1 million, net of allowance for doubtful accounts and sales returns of $3.1 million as of December 31, 2004.

      Similarly, management must make estimates of potential future inventory obsolescence and purchase commitments to measure the need for inventory allowances. Management analyzes current economic trends, changes in customer demand and the acceptance of our products when evaluating the adequacy of such allowances. Significant management judgments and estimates must be made and used in connection with establishing the allowances in any accounting period. Material differences may result in the amount and timing of our income for any period if management made different judgments or utilized different estimates. Our inventory balance was $5.5 million, net of allowance of $5.6 million as of December 31, 2004.

      We have from time to time set up allowances or accruals for uncertainties related to revenues, for potential unfavorable litigation outcomes and for potential unfavorable outcomes from disputes with customers or vendors. Management bases its estimates for the allowances or accruals on historical experience and on various other assumptions believed to be applicable and reasonable under the circumstances.

      Accounting for income taxes. In preparing our consolidated financial statements we are required to estimate our income taxes in each of the jurisdictions in which we operate. We estimate our actual current tax exposure and the temporary differences resulting from differing treatment of items, such as deferred revenue, for tax and book accounting purposes. These differences result in deferred tax assets and liabilities, which are included within our consolidated balance sheet. We must then assess the likelihood that our deferred tax assets will be recovered from future taxable income. If we believe that recovery of these deferred assets is not likely, we must establish a valuation allowance. To the extent we either establish or increase a valuation allowance in a period, we must include an expense within the tax provision in the statement of income.

      Significant management judgment is required in determining our provision for income taxes, our deferred tax assets and liabilities and any valuation allowance recorded against our net deferred tax assets. We have maintained a valuation allowance of $2.0 million as of December 31, 2004 for foreign tax credits resulting from the 2003 acquisition of Best. If actual results differ from these estimates or we adjust these estimates in future periods we may need to establish an additional valuation allowance that could materially impact our financial position and results of operations.

      Net deferred tax assets as of December 31, 2004 were $51.9 million.

      Effective in the third quarter of 2004, we have elected to permanently reinvest unremitted earnings of certain foreign subsidiaries. As of December 31, 2004, we have permanently reinvested $33.8 million of unremitted earnings. Should these earnings be remitted to the U.S., the tax on these earnings would be approximately $3.3 million.

      Valuation of long-lived and intangible assets and goodwill. In 2002 we adopted SFAS 142, “Goodwill and Other Intangible Assets.” In lieu of amortization, we are required to perform an annual impairment review of our goodwill. We completed our annual review in the third quarter of 2004, based upon July 1, 2004

balances, with no impairment of goodwill indicated as a result of the review. We assess the impairment of identifiable intangibles and long-lived assets whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate that the carrying value may not be recoverable or that the life of the asset may need to be revised. Factors we consider important which could trigger an impairment review include the following:

      When we determine that the carrying value of goodwill, intangibles or long-lived assets may not be recoverable based upon the existence of one or more of the above indicators of impairment, we measure any impairment based on a projected discounted cash flow method using a discount rate determined by our management to be commensurate with the risk inherent in our current business model. Net intangible assets, goodwill and long-lived assets amounted to $114.6 million as of December 31, 2004. No adjustments to the lives of the other intangible assets have been made since the adoption of SFAS 142.

      Business combinations. We allocate the purchase price of acquired companies to the tangible and intangible assets acquired, liabilities assumed, as well as in-process research and development based on their estimated fair values. We engage independent third-party appraisal firms to assist in determining the fair values of intangible assets acquired. Such a valuation requires management to make significant estimates and assumptions, especially with respect to intangible assets.

      Management makes estimates of fair value based upon assumptions believed to be reasonable. These estimates are based on historical experience and information obtained from the management of the acquired companies. Critical estimates in valuing certain of the intangible assets include but are not limited to: future expected cash flows ; acquired developed technologies and patents; expected costs to develop the in-process research and development into commercially viable products and estimating cash flows from the projects when completed; the acquired company’s brand awareness and market position, as well as assumptions about the period of time the acquired brand will continue to be used in the combined company’s product portfolio; and discount rates. These estimates are inherently uncertain and unpredictable. Assumptions may be incomplete or inaccurate, and unanticipated events and circumstances may occur which may affect the accuracy or validity of such assumption, estimates or other actual results.

      Other estimates associated with the accounting for acquisitions include severance costs and the costs of vacating duplicate facilities. These costs are based upon estimates made by management and are subject to refinement. To estimate these costs, we utilize assumptions of the number of employees that will involuntarily terminate employment and of future costs to operate and eventually vacate duplicate facilities. Estimated costs may change as additional information becomes available regarding the assets acquired and liabilities assumed and as management continues its assessment of the pre-merger operations.

      Our financial projections may ultimately prove to be inaccurate and unanticipated events and circumstances may occur. Therefore, no assurance can be given that the underlying assumptions used to forecast revenues and costs to develop such projects will transpire as projected.

      Determining functional currencies for the purpose of consolidating our international operations. We have several foreign subsidiaries which together account for approximately 34% of our net revenues, approximately 9% of our total assets and approximately 10% of our total liabilities as of December 31, 2004.

      Based on our assessment of the factors discussed below, we consider the United States dollar to be the functional currency for each of our international subsidiaries except for our Japanese subsidiary, EFI KK, for which we consider the Japanese yen to be the subsidiary’s functional currency and one of our German subsidiaries, Best GmbH, for which we consider the euro to be the subsidiary’s functional currency.

      In preparing our consolidated financial statements, we are required to translate the financial statements of the foreign subsidiaries from the currency in which they keep their accounting records, generally the local currency, into United States dollars. This process results in exchange gains and losses which, under the relevant accounting guidance, are either included within the statement of income or as a separate component of stockholders’ equity under the caption “Accumulated other comprehensive income.”

      Under the relevant accounting guidance the treatment of these translation gains or losses is dependent upon our management’s determination of the functional currency of each subsidiary. The functional currency is determined based on management judgment and involves consideration of all relevant economic facts and circumstances affecting the subsidiary. Generally, the currency in which the subsidiary transacts a majority of its transactions, including billings, financing, payroll and other expenditures would be considered the functional currency but any dependency upon the parent company and the nature of the subsidiary’s operations must also be considered. If any subsidiary’s functional currency is deemed to be the local currency, then any gain or loss associated with the translation of that subsidiary’s financial statements is included in stockholders’ equity. However, if the functional currency is deemed to be the United States dollar then any gain or loss associated with the translation of the subsidiary’s financial statements would be included within our consolidated statement of income. If we dispose of any of our subsidiaries, any cumulative translation gains or losses would be realized in our consolidated statement of income. If we determine that there has been a change in the functional currency of a subsidiary to the United States dollar, any translation gains or losses arising after the date of change would be included within our consolidated statement of income.

Results of Operations

      The following tables set forth items in our consolidated statements of income as a percentage of total revenue for 2004, 2003 and 2002 and the year-to-year percentage change from 2004 over 2003 and from 2003 over 2002, respectively. These operating results are not necessarily indicative of results for any future period.

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      Our revenue in 2004 was principally derived from three major categories. The first category was made up of stand-alone servers which connect digital copiers with computer networks. This category included the Fiery, Splash, Edox, and MicroPress products. The second category consisted of embedded desktop controllers, bundled solutions, design-licensed solutions and software RIPs primarily designed for the office market. The third category consisted of software technology centered around printing workflow, proofing and web submission and job tracking tools. Miscellaneous revenue consisted of spares, engineering services and enterprise solutions, which individually are an insignificant part of the total 2004 revenue.

      The following is a break-down of revenue by category in dollars and volumes as a percentage of total units shipped.

      Revenue was $394.6 million in 2004, compared to $379.6 million in 2003 and $350.2 million in 2002, which resulted in a 4% increase in 2004 versus 2003 and an 8% increase in 2003 compared to 2002. In 2004, the net increase in revenues can be broken down into a $6.6 million increase from our 2004 acquisitions, a $41.6 million increase from the full year impact of the 2003 acquisitions, excluding Best GmbH which experienced a $1.7 million increase, a $7.8 million increase from non-acquisition related professional printing applications and a $42.8 million decrease in the servers, embedded and miscellaneous categories. The major factor contributing to the overall higher revenue in 2003 over 2002 was an increase in the professional printing applications of $17.8 million, primarily due to acquisitions, and an increase in our embedded category of $17.5 million. Those increases were offset with a decrease in server sales of $6.9 million.

      In our server category, the decrease in 2004 over 2003 of $8.0 million was due to a combination of reduced volumes, partially offset by a 1.5% increase in the average selling price. Our high-end and mid-range servers showed a minimal increase in the average selling price, while the average selling price of our low-end and black-and-white servers were stable. The server category has been impacted by the delay of a server for an existing OEM customer, who delayed the launch of their product until 2005 and the softness in one of our OEM’s high-end business. There were a very small number of new copier engines introduced by our OEM customers in 2004, and this contributed to our lower server shipments. We expect our OEM customers to launch new products in 2005 from which we should benefit, although we cannot guarantee increased

shipments. The decrease in revenue in 2003 for servers when compared to 2002 was due to decreased shipments in our high-end and mid-range color servers, partially offset by increased shipments of our low-end servers.

      During 2004 we experienced downward pressure on unit volumes and revenues in the embedded category as products launched in 2003 by our OEM customers have started to age in the marketplace and end-user customers began to anticipate new product launches scheduled throughout 2005. While overall shipments in this category declined, there was an increase in the number of design-licensed units sold, reflecting the movement from our embedded units by our OEM customers to allow them to offer more features on their products, while maintaining price levels with prior products. The design-licensed solutions sell for a lower unit price, putting pressure on our revenue levels, but have a higher gross margin, thereby contributing more per unit to our earnings. The new product launches in 2003 account for the increase in revenues when comparing 2003 to 2002. In 2005, we expect continued softness in this category until late in the year when incremental products are launched by our OEM partners.

      With the acquisition of Printcafe in 2003 we introduced a new product category, Professional Printing Applications. Within this category are the products we acquired from Printcafe and Best GmbH as well as certain software products that were developed by EFI to enhance our server products, such as our Graphic Arts Package and products to optimize the workflow in printshops such as Oneflow and Balance. We experienced a steady growth in this category with all of the products in this category showing organic growth of approximately 33% in revenue in 2004 compared to 2003. The software applications in this category generate higher margins, favorably impacting our margins. Although we do not expect to repeat the 33% growth rate in 2005, we continue to see strong market acceptance of these products and we believe we will experience further incremental growth.

      The miscellaneous category of revenue consists of individually insignificant items in our product portfolio, as well as spares. The decrease in volume when comparing 2004 to 2003 in this category was attributable to the sale of our EBeam technology in 2003. The remaining volume in 2004 comes from our DocSend product.

      We believe that price reductions for all of our products may affect revenues in the future. We have made and may in the future make price reductions for our products in order to drive demand and remain competitive. Depending upon the price-elasticity of demand for our products, the pricing and quality of competitive products and other economic and competitive conditions, such price reductions may have an adverse impact on our revenues and profits. If we are not able to compensate for lower gross margins that may result from price reductions with an increased volume of sales, our results of operations could be adversely affected.

      Shipments by geographic area for the years ended December 31, 2004, 2003 and 2002 were as follows:

      The products in the Professional Printing Applications category, most of which were acquired in late 2003, fueled the increase in revenue in North America from 2004 to 2003. In Europe, the weakened US dollar resulted in a decrease in revenues from 2003 to 2004. In addition some of the sales in the Americas, Europe and Rest of World shifted to Japan as our OEM customers purchased our design-licensed solutions in Japan, and then sold them to their customers.

      New server products, as well as the revenues from our 2003 acquisitions, generated the increase in revenue in both North America and Europe when comparing 2003 to 2002. The increase in Japan in 2003 over 2002 is due to the higher number of design-licensed solutions as those products are shipped to Japan for manufacturing and then redistributed around the world.

      As shipments to some of our OEM customers are made to centralized purchasing and manufacturing locations which in turn sell through to other locations, we believe that non-U.S. sales of our products into each region may differ from what is reported, though accurate data is difficult to obtain. We expect that non-U.S. sales will continue to represent a significant portion of our total revenue.

      Substantially all of the revenue for 2002 and 2003 and the majority of the revenue for 2004 was attributable to sales of products through our OEM channels with such customers as Canon, Epson, Fuji-Xerox, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Kodak/ Danka Business Systems, Konica Minolta, Océ, Ricoh, Sharp, Toshiba, Xerox and others. The customers that individually accounted for more than 10% of our revenues were Canon, Konica Minolta (Minolta only, in 2002) and Xerox. Together these customers accounted for 61% of our revenues in 2004, 72% in 2003 and 67% in 2002. The decrease to 61% from 72% is the result of our increased software sales, which are sold to more customers than our traditional server business. However, in the event that any of the OEM relationships are scaled back or discontinued, we could still experience a significant adverse impact on our financial condition and results of operations. In addition, no assurance can be given that our relationships with these OEM customers will continue.

      We continue to work on the development of products utilizing our proprietary architecture and other products and intend to continue to introduce new generations of server and controller products and other new product lines with current and new OEMs in 2005 and beyond. No assurance can be given that the introduction or market acceptance of new, current or future products will be successful.

      Our gross margins were 65%, 61% and 52% for 2004, 2003 and 2002, respectively. The 400 basis point increase in gross margin from 2003 to 2004 resulted primarily from (1) an increase in software sales compared to the prior year principally due to our 2003 acquisitions and (2) the migration of embedded controller sales to design-license sales for certain of our products. The 900 basis point increase in gross margin from 52% to 61% from 2002 to 2003 was due to the introduction of additional digital printing engines for the commercial print markets, the conversion of more new office products to the design-licensed model and increased software sales, including the products from our 2003 acquisitions. We cannot predict the impact of each of these, or other factors, on future gross margin results.

      Our print servers as well as our embedded desktop controllers are manufactured by third-party manufacturers who purchase most of the necessary components. If our third-party manufacturers cannot obtain the necessary components at favorable prices we could experience an increase in our product costs. We do purchase certain parts directly, including processors, memory, certain ASICs and software licensed from various sources, including PostScript® interpreter software, which we license from Adobe Systems, Inc.

      In general, we believe that the current gross margin levels are sustainable if our product mix remains stable. If our product mix changes significantly, our gross margins will fluctuate. In addition, gross margins can be impacted by a variety of other factors. These factors include the market prices that can be achieved on our current and future products, the availability and pricing of key components (including DRAM, Processors and PostScript® interpreter software), third party manufacturing costs, product, channel and geographic mix, the success of our product transitions and new products, competition and general economic conditions in the United States and abroad. Consequently, gross margins may fluctuate from period to period. In addition to the factors affecting revenue described above, if we are pressured to reduce prices, gross margins for our products could be lower.

      Operating expenses increased by 21% in 2004 over 2003 and increased by 20% in 2003 over 2002. Operating expenses as a percentage of revenue amounted to 61%, 52% and 47% for 2004, 2003 and 2002, respectively. Of the $42.5 million increase in 2004 compared to 2003, the largest increase came from the acquisitions made in 2003 and 2004 with the next largest amount coming from the $14.4 million real estate related charges. Less significant additional increases were from increased payroll expenses, additional trade show expenses, accounting and consulting fees related to compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, or SOX and additional legal costs offset with a decrease of $5.0 million related to the amortization of identified intangibles and other acquisition-related charges. We are unable to clearly define the costs associated with our 2003 and 2004 acquisitions as the acquired companies were merged into our existing operations and not maintained as stand alone businesses. The acquisition of three companies in 2003 accounted for nearly the entire increase between 2003 and 2002 before the amortization of identifiable intangibles and other acquisition-related charges. In an effort to improve our profitability we made reductions in our workforce in January 2005 and expect that the full effect of those reductions will be reflected in our earnings in the second quarter of 2005.

      The components of operating expenses are detailed below.

      Our effective tax rate was 56.9% in 2004, (35.9)% in 2003 and (30.0)% in 2002. During the third quarter of 2004, the tax provision reflected the one time effect of the resolution of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) examination of our federal income tax returns filed for 1999 through 2001. As a result of the settlement reached with the IRS for these years, we were required to remit $0.6 million in tax deficiencies and related interest and we utilized $6.4 million in credit carry forwards available to offset income taxes payable in future periods. In addition and as a result of such settlement, we adjusted our tax accruals related to the audit years for $7.8 million. In all years presented, we benefited from tax-exempt interest income and research and development credits. We also benefited from foreign sales in 2004 and 2003. Our rate increased in 2004 due to the in-process research and development write-off related to the ADS acquisition and in 2003 due to similar

write-offs related to the Printcafe and T/ R Systems acquisitions. Our rate also increased in 2003 as a result of the loss on our pro rata share of Printcafe’s losses prior to the completion of the of the acquisition. Our rate was also negatively impacted in 2002 by taxes provided on foreign earnings.

      Also, during the third quarter of 2004, we evaluated the business objectives and financial requirements of our domestic and international operations and determined that we intend to permanently reinvest $29.0 million of unremitted earnings of certain foreign subsidiaries reported for the periods through 2003. Therefore, the tax provision in the third quarter of 2004 also reflects a benefit of $11.1 million from the reversal of the previously recorded deferred tax liability associated with those earnings.

      The net impact of these events in 2004 is a net income tax benefit of $18.9 million. Excluding this net income tax benefit, our effective tax rate for 2004 would have been 21.3%.

      The American Jobs Creation Act of 2004, (“The Act”), was enacted on October 22, 2004. The Act contains changes to the Internal Revenue Code that may impact EFI and our accounting for income taxes. See Note 10 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements for further discussion of the Act’s impact.

Recent Accounting Pronouncements

      In December 2004, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued SFAS No. 153, Exchanges of Nonmonetary Assets — An Amendment of APB Opinion No. 29 (“SFAS 153”). SFAS 153 is based on the principle that exchanges of nonmonetary assets should be measured based on the fair value of the assets exchanged. This statement amends APB 29 to eliminate the exception for nonmonetary exchanges of similar productive assets and replaces it with a general exception for exchanges of nonmonetary assets that do not have commercial substance. A nonmonetary exchange has commercial substance if the future cash flows of the entity are expected to change significantly as a result of the exchange. SFAS 153 is effective for nonmonetary exchanges occurring in fiscal periods beginning after June 15, 2004. The implementation of the pronouncement is not expected to have a material impact on our financial condition or results of operations.

      On December 16, 2004, FASB issued SFAS No. 123 (revised 2004), Share-Based Payment (“SFAS 123R”), which is a revision of SFAS No. 123, Accounting for Stock-Based Compensation (“SFAS 123”). SFAS 123R supersedes APB Opinion No. 25 (“APB 25”), Accounting for Stock Issued to Employees, and amends SFAS No. 95, Statement of Cash Flows. Generally, the approach in SFAS 123R is similar to the approach described in SFAS 123. However, SFAS 123R requires all share-based payments to employees, including grants of employee stock options, to be recognized in the income statement based on their fair values. Pro forma disclosure is no longer an alternative. SFAS 123R must be adopted no later than July 1, 2005. Early adoption will be permitted in periods in which financial statements have not yet been issued. The Company expects to adopt SFAS 123R on July 1, 2005.

      As permitted by SFAS 123, the Company currently accounts for share-based payments to employees using the intrinsic value method under APB 25 and, as such, generally recognizes no compensation cost for employee stock options. Accordingly, the adoption of SFAS 123R’s fair value method will have a significant impact on our result of operations, although it will have no impact on our overall financial position. The impact of adoption of SFAS 123R cannot be predicted at this time because it will depend on levels of share-based payments granted in the future. However, had we adopted SFAS 123R in prior periods, the impact of that standard would have approximated the impact of SFAS 123 as described in the disclosure of pro forma net income and earnings per share in Note 1 to the consolidated financial statements.

      In March 2004, the FASB issued EITF Issue No. 03-1, “The Meaning of Other-Than-Temporary Impairment and Its Application to Certain Investments” which provides new guidance for assessing impairment losses on debt and equity investments. Additionally, EITF Issue No. 03-1 includes new disclosure

requirements for investments that are deemed to be temporarily impaired. In September 2004, the FASB delayed the accounting provisions of EITF Issue No. 03-1; however, the disclosure requirements remain effective and have been adopted for our year ended December 31, 2004. We will evaluate the effect, if any, of EITF 03-1 when final guidance is released.

      FASB Staff Position No. 109-2, Accounting and Disclosure Guidance for Foreign Earnings Repatriation with the American Jobs Creation Act of 2004 (“FSP 109-2”), provides guidance under FASB Statement No. 109, Accounting for Income Taxes, on recording the potential income tax liability resulting from a repatriation pursuant to the American Jobs Creation Act of 2004 (“The Act”). The Act was signed into law on October 22, 2004. FSP 109-2 allows companies additional time to evaluate the impact of any repatriation and the resulting tax liability made pursuant to the Act. The company is still evaluating the impact of the Act’s repatriation provisions. As a result, the company has not adjusted its tax expense to reflect the impact of the repatriation provisions.

Liquidity and Capital Resources

Overview

      We ended 2004 with cash, cash equivalents and investments totaling $659.6 million, as compared to $624.1 million at the end of 2003. The increase of $35.5 million was from the receipt of approximately $26.9 million in proceeds from stock issued under employee stock purchase plans and options, as well as cash collections from our customers and the timing of payment of our liabilities. These increases were offset with our use of $55.6 million of cash to repurchase common stock and $11.6 million to acquire ADS Technology. A more detailed discussion of changes in our liquidity follows.

Operating Activities

      Net cash provided by operating activities in 2004, 2003 and 2002 was primarily the result of our net income of $38.0 million, $26.5 million and $16.0 million, respectively, which is adjusted for non-cash items such as depreciation and amortization, acquired in-process research and development, deferred income taxes, stock compensation and changes in various assets and liabilities such as accounts payable, accounts receivable and other current assets.

      Our historical and primary source of operating cash flow is the collection of accounts receivable from our customers and the timing of payments to our vendors and service providers. One measure of the effectiveness of our collection efforts is average days sales outstanding (“DSO”) for accounts receivable. DSOs were 46 days, 45 days, and 42 days at December 31, 2004, 2003 and 2002. We calculate accounts receivable DSO on a “gross” basis by dividing the net accounts receivable balance at the end of the quarter by the amount of revenue recognized for the quarter multiplied by the total days in the quarter. We expect DSOs to vary from period to period because of changes in quarterly revenue and the effectiveness of our collection efforts. Our accounts receivable DSO has been trending upward and we expect this trend may continue. For the past three years our revenue was generated by sales of our server products, which are typically invoiced with “net 30 days” terms. With our 2003 acquisitions we added software offerings to our product lineup, a portion of

which are invoiced with terms greater than 30 days, and it is possible that as the revenue from those offerings increase our accounts receivable DSO will increase.

      Our operating cash flows are impacted by the timing of payments to our vendors for accounts payable and by our accrual of liabilities. In 2004, the change in accounts payable and accrued liabilities reduced our cash flows by approximately $1.4 million. Payments for taxes reduced our operating cash flows by $4.0 million.

      Our working capital, defined as current assets minus current liabilities, was $618.1 million and $665.2 million at December 31, 2004 and December 31, 2003, respectively. The cause of the decrease in working capital of approximately $47.1 million is principally related to the transfer of $56.9 million of cash to a long-term collateral account and the payment of $11.4 million to the lessor under the terms of one of our synthetic leases, offset in part by the decrease in current liabilities of $6.0 million from 2003 to 2004 and the collection of cash from our customers. Current liabilities decreased due to the reduction in taxes payable resulting from the settlement of an IRS audit.

      We expect to meet our obligations as they become due through available cash and internally generated funds. We expect to generate positive working capital through our operations. However, we cannot predict whether current trends and conditions will continue or what the effect on our business might be from the competitive environment in which we operate. We believe the working capital available to us will be sufficient to meet our cash requirements for at least the next 12 months.

Investing Activities

      A summary of our investing activities at December 31, 2003, 2002 and 2001 follows. The detail of these line items can be seen in our consolidated statement of cash flows.

      In 2004, we paid cash for our acquisition of ADS Technology in the amount of $11.8 million. We purchased ADS Technology to enhance our software offerings to the copier dealer channels. We acquired Best GmbH for $9.6 million in cash in January 2003 and Printcafe Software for a combination of shares of our common stock and $29.3 million in cash in October 2003 to add products to our offerings for the professional print industry. We also purchased T/ R Systems for $20.0 million in cash in November 2003 for their server technology and web-based storefront software.

      We may buy or make investments in complementary companies, products and technologies. Our available cash and equity may be used to acquire or invest in companies or products, possibly resulting in significant acquisition-related charges to earnings and dilution to our stockholders.

      We purchased $6.6 million of equipment during 2004, including costs related to the consolidation of our three Arizona offices. Purchases of property and equipment were $5.0 million in 2003 and $8.3 million in 2002. Our property and equipment additions have been funded from operations.

      We anticipate that we will continue to purchase property and equipment necessary in the normal course of our business. The amount and timing of these purchases and the related cash outflows in future periods is difficult to predict and is dependent on a number of factors including our hiring of employees, the rate of change in computer hardware/ software used in our business and our business outlook.

      We received net proceeds from our marketable securities in 2004 of $39.4 million. In 2003 and 2002 we made purchases net of sales/maturities of our marketable securities of $168.9 million and $83.3 million, respectively. We have classified our investment portfolio as “available for sale,” and our investments are made with a policy of capital preservation and liquidity as the primary objectives. We generally hold investments in corporate bonds and U.S. government agency securities to maturity; however, we may sell an investment at any time if the quality rating of the investment declines, the yield on the investment is no longer attractive or we are in need of cash. Because we invest only in investment securities that are highly liquid with a ready market, we believe that the purchase, maturity or sale of our investments has no material impact on our overall liquidity.

      During 2004 the restrictions on certain cash, cash equivalents and short term investments were lifted when the synthetic lease requiring the pledged accounts expired. Approximately $35.7 million in cash equivalents and short-term investments were transferred to investment accounts that carried no restrictions.

      In connection with the synthetic leases for our Foster City offices, we are required to maintain cash in LIBOR-based interest-bearing accounts. At December 31, 2003 there was one account which carried a balance of $43.1 million dollars for the 301 Velocity Way building. In September 2004 we withdrew $11.4 million to reimburse the lessor for the loss in value of that building. In July 2004 we negotiated a new lease for the building located at 303 Velocity Way,, and per provisions in that lease, placed $56.9 million in cash in a second LIBOR-based interest-bearing account. We now have $88.6 million in collateral accounts. For further information on these transactions please see the discussion at “Off Balance Sheet Financing.”

Financing Activities

      The primary use of funds for financing activities in 2004 was the use of $55.6 million of cash to repurchase outstanding shares of our common stock. See Item 5 — Market for Registrant’s Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities for further discussion of our programs to repurchase our common stock.

      Historically, our recurring cash flows provided by financing activities have been from the receipt of cash from the issuance of common stock under stock option and employee stock purchase plans. We received cash proceeds from these plans in the amount of $26.9 million, $40.6 million and $9.3 million in 2004, 2003 and 2002, respectively. While we expect to continue to receive these proceeds in future periods, the timing and amount of such proceeds are difficult to predict and is contingent on a number of factors including the price of our common stock, the number of employees participating in the plans and general market conditions.

      If our stock price rises, more employees’ options are “in the money” in their options, and the employees are more likely to exercise their options, which results in cash to us. If our stock price decreases, more of our employees’ options are “out of the money” or “under water”, and therefore, the employees are not able to exercise options, which results in no cash received by us. The decrease in cash proceeds from the exercise of

stock options and employee stock purchase plans from 2003 to 2004 was primarily the result of the lower market prices for our common stock. Our employee stock purchase plan has had a high participation rate historically, and has generated $5.0 million, $4.0 million and $4.1 million in 2004, 2003 and 2002. We do not know if participation will continue at these levels if we amend our plan to eliminate any look-back for purchase plan prices in response to the adoption of FAS 123R.

      In 2003, we received net proceeds from the issuance of our 1.50% senior convertible debentures in the amount of $233.2 million, net of issuance costs. We used $58.2 million of the proceeds from this offering to repurchase approximately 3.1 million shares of our common stock. The remaining proceeds were placed in our short-term investment accounts.

      The synthetic lease agreements for our corporate headquarters provide for residual value guarantees. Under FIN 45, the fair value of a residual value guarantee in lease agreements entered into after December 31, 2002, must be recognized as a liability on our consolidated balance sheet. We have determined that the guarantees have no material value as of December 31, 2004.

      Our inventory consists primarily of memory subsystems, processors and ASICs, which are sold to third-party contract manufacturers responsible for manufacturing our products. Should we decide to purchase components and do our own manufacturing, or should it become necessary for us to purchase and sell components other than the processors, ASICs or memory subsystems for our contract manufacturers, inventory balances and potentially fixed assets would increase significantly, thereby reducing our available cash resources. Further, the inventory we carry could become obsolete, thereby negatively impacting our financial condition and results of operations. We are also reliant on several sole-source suppliers for certain key components and could experience a further significant negative impact on our financial condition and results of operations if such supply were reduced or not available.

      We may be required to compensate our sub-contract manufacturers for components purchased for orders subsequently cancelled by us. We periodically review the potential liability and the adequacy of the related allowance. Our financial condition and results of operations could be negatively impacted if we were required to compensate the sub-contract manufacturers in amounts in excess of the accrued liability.

      In addition to the matters discussed under Item 3, Legal Proceedings, we are involved from time to time in litigation relating to claims arising in the normal course of our business.

Contractual Obligations

      The following table summarizes our significant contractual obligations at December 31, 2004 and the effect such obligations are expected to have on our liquidity and cash flows in future periods. This table excludes amounts already recorded on our balance sheet as current liabilities at December 31, 2004.

      Purchase orders or contracts for the purchase of raw materials and other goods and services are not included in the table above. We are not able to determine the aggregate amount of such purchase orders that represent contractual obligations, as purchase orders may represent authorizations to purchase rather than binding agreements. For the purposes of this table, contractual obligations for purchase of goods or services are defined as agreements that are enforceable and legally binding on EFI and that specify all significant terms, including: fixed or minimum quantities to be purchased; fixed, minimum or variable price provisions; and the approximate timing of the transaction. Our purchase orders are based on our current manufacturing needs and are fulfilled by our vendors within short time horizons. We do not have significant agreements for the purchase of raw materials or other goods specifying minimum quantities or set prices that exceed our expected requirements for three months. We also enter into contracts for outsourced services; however the obligations under these contracts were not significant and the contracts generally contain clauses allowing for cancellation without significant penalty.

      The expected timing of payment of the obligations discussed above is estimated based on current information. Timing of payments and actual amounts paid may be different depending on the time of receipt of goods or services or changes to agreed-upon amounts for some obligations.

Off-Balance Sheet Financing

      We are a party to two synthetic leases (the “301 Lease” and the “303 Lease”, together “Leases”) covering our Foster City facilities located at 301 and 303 Velocity Way, Foster City, California. These leases provide a cost effective means of providing adequate office space for our corporate offices. Both Leases expire in July 2014. We may, at our option, purchase the facilities during or at the end of the term of the leases for the amount expended by the lessor to purchase the facilities ($56.9 million for the 303 Lease and $31.7 million for the 301 Lease). We have guaranteed to the lessor a residual value associated with the buildings equal to 82% of their funding of the respective Leases. Under the financial covenants, we must maintain a minimum net worth and a minimum tangible net worth as of the end of each quarter. There is an additional covenant regarding mergers. We were in compliance with all of the covenants as of December 31, 2004. We are liable to the lessor for the financed amount of the buildings if we default on our covenants.

      We have assessed our exposure in relation to the first loss guarantees under the Leases and believe that there is no deficiency to the guaranteed value at December 31, 2004. If there is a decline in value, we will record a loss associated with the residual value guarantee. The funds pledged under the Leases ($56.9 million for the 303 Lease and $31.7 million for the 301 Lease at December 31, 2004 for a total of $88.6 million) are in LIBOR-based interest bearing accounts and are restricted as to withdrawal at all times. In conjunction with the Leases, we have entered into separate ground leases with the lessor for approximately 30 years.

      We are treated as the owner of these buildings for federal income tax purposes.

      As part of the September 2004 amended financing arrangement for the 301 Lease, we completed a valuation of the building located at 301 Velocity Way. Under the original financing agreement, we guaranteed the lessor upon termination of the original lease an 82% residual value in the building which cost $43.1 million to construct. The valuation provided a value of approximately $31.7 million, and we recorded a one-time loss of $11.4 million associated with the original lease. In addition, we took a non-cash charge of $0.9 million for capitalized costs associated with the financial arrangement.

      Effective July 1, 2003, we applied the accounting and disclosure rules set forth in Interpretation No. 46 Consolidation of Variable Interest Entities, as revised (“FIN 46R”) for variable interest entities (“VIEs”). We have evaluated our synthetic lease agreements to determine if the arrangements qualify as variable interest entities under FIN 46R. We have determined that the synthetic lease agreements do qualify as VIEs; however, because we are not the primary beneficiary under FIN 46R we are not required to consolidate the VIEs in our financial statements.

Disclosures On Stock Option Programs

      Our stock option program is a broad-based, long-term retention program that is intended to attract and retain talented employees and align stockholder and employee interests. We consider our option program critical to our operation and productivity; essentially all of our employees participate. No company wide grants were made during 2004. We expect to make a company-wide grant in early 2005. The program consists of a broad-based plan under which options may be granted to all employees, directors and consultants. Option vesting periods range from 2 — 4 years, with an average vesting period of 3.5 years.

Employee and Executive Option Grants

In-the-Money and Out-of-the-Money Option Information

Factors That Could Adversely Affect Performance and Financial Results

      A significant portion of our revenues are generated by sales of our printer and copier related products to a relatively small number of OEMs. For example, Canon, Xerox and Konica Minolta each contributed over 10% of our revenues for the year ended December 31, 2004 and together accounted for approximately 61% of those revenues. During the fiscal year ended December 31, 2003, these same three customers each contributed over 10% of our revenues and together accounted for approximately 72% of our revenues for the year. Because sales of our printer and copier-related products constitute a significant portion of our revenues and there are a limited number of OEMs producing copiers and printers in sufficient volume to be attractive customers for us, we expect that we will continue to depend on a relatively small number of OEM customers for a significant portion of our revenues in future periods. Accordingly, if we lose or experience reduced sales to an important OEM customer, we will have difficulty replacing the revenue traditionally generated from such customer with sales to new or existing OEM customers and our revenues will likely decline significantly.

      We have traditionally sold our products to our OEM customers, who in turn sold the product to the end-user. Accordingly, in the past, our marketing and sales efforts focused on manufacturers and distributors of the manufacturers’ equipment, not on the end-user of the product. Consequently, we have limited experience developing and managing a direct sales force or marketing products and services directly to the end-user. The professional printing applications and enterprise solutions that we acquired in our purchase of Printcafe and ADS are sold directly to the end-user. If we are unable to successfully develop, expand and manage our direct sales force or develop a marketing program that effectively reaches the end-users, we are likely to see a decline in revenues from those products and the anticipated benefits of the acquisitions may be reduced or not materialize.

      With the exception of certain minimum purchase obligations, we typically do not have long-term volume purchase contracts with our customers, including Canon, Xerox and Konica Minolta and they are not obligated to purchase products from us. Accordingly, our customers could at any time reduce their purchases from us or cease purchasing our products altogether. In the past, some of our OEM customers have elected to develop products on their own, rather than purchase our products and we expect that customers will continue to make such elections in the future. In addition, since our OEM customers incorporate our products into products they manufacture and sell, any decline in demand for copiers or laser printers and any other negative developments affecting our major customers or the computer industry in general, is likely to harm our results of operations. For example, several of our customers have in the past experienced serious financial difficulties which led to a decline in sales of our products to these customers. If any significant customers should face such difficulties in the future, our operating results could be harmed through, among other things, decreased sales volumes and write-offs of accounts receivables and inventory related to products we have manufactured for these customers’ products.

      In addition, a significant portion of our operating expenses are fixed in advance based on projected sales levels and margins, sales forecasts from our OEM customers and product development programs. A substantial portion of our backlog is scheduled for delivery within 90 days or less and our customers may cancel orders and change volume levels or delivery times for product they have ordered from us without penalty. Accordingly, if sales to our OEM customers are below expectations in any given quarter, the adverse impact of the shortfall in revenues on operating results may be increased by our inability to adjust spending in the short term to compensate for this shortfall.

      We rely upon our OEM customers to develop new products, applications and product enhancements utilizing our technologies in a timely and cost-effective manner. Our continued success depends upon the ability of these OEM customers to utilize our technologies while meeting changing end-user customer needs and responding to emerging industry standards and other technological changes. However, we cannot assure you that our OEM customers will effectively meet these requirements. These OEM customers, who are not within our control, are generally not obligated to purchase products from us and we cannot assure you that they will continue to carry our products. For example, our OEM customers have incorporated into their products the technologies of other companies in addition to, or instead of, our technologies and will likely continue to do so in the future. If our OEM customers do not effectively market products containing our technologies, our revenue will likely be materially and adversely affected.

      Our OEM customers work closely with us to develop products that are specific to each OEM customer’s copiers and printers. Many of the products and technologies we are developing require that we coordinate development, quality testing, marketing and other tasks with our OEM customers. We cannot control our OEM customers’ development efforts or the timing of these efforts and coordinating with our OEM customers may cause delays in our own product development efforts that are outside of our control. If our OEM customers delay the release of their product due to factors outside our control, our revenue and results of operations may be adversely affected. In addition, our revenue and results of operations may be adversely affected if we cannot meet our OEM customers’ product needs for their specific copiers and printers, as well as successfully manage the additional engineering and support effort and other risks associated with such a wide range of products.

      The revenue growth and profitability of our business depends significantly on the overall demand for information technology products such as ours that enable printing of digital data. Delays or reductions in information technology spending which has occurred since 2001, has and could continue to cause a decline in demand for our products and services and consequently has and may continue to harm our business, operating results, financial condition, prospects and stock price.

      Stock prices of high technology companies such as ours tend to be volatile and are subject to broad fluctuation, including due to variations in operating results and, consequently, fluctuations in our operating results could adversely affect our stock price. Factors that have caused our operating results and share price to fluctuate in the past and that may cause future fluctuations include:

      Our industry is highly competitive and is characterized by rapid technological changes. We compete against a number of other suppliers of imaging products and technologies, including our OEM customers themselves. Although we attempt to develop and support innovative products that end customers demand, products or technologies developed by competing suppliers, including our own OEM customers, could render our products or technologies obsolete or noncompetitive.

      While many of our OEM customers incorporate our technologies into their end products on an exclusive basis, we do not have any formal agreements that prevent these OEM customers from offering alternative products that do not incorporate our technologies. If, as has occurred in the past, an OEM customer offers products from alternative suppliers instead of, or in addition to products incorporating our technologies, our market share could decrease, which would likely reduce our revenue and adversely affect our financial results.

      In addition, many OEMs in the printer and copier industry, including most of our OEM customers, internally develop and sell products that compete directly with our current products. These OEMs have significant investments in their existing solutions and have substantial resources that may enable them to develop or improve, more quickly than us, technologies similar to ours that are compatible with their own products. Our OEM customers have in the past marketed and likely will continue in the future to market, their own internal technologies and solutions in addition to ours, even when their technologies and solutions are less advanced, have lower performance or cost more than our products. Given the significant financial, marketing and other resources of our larger OEM customers and other significant OEMs in the imaging industry who are not our customers, we may not be able to successfully compete against similar products developed internally by these OEMs, particularly in the black-and-white and embedded color product markets where price competition is most intense and where we experience pressure on our margins. If we cannot compete successfully against the OEMs’ internally developed products, we will lose sales and market share in those areas where the OEMs choose to compete and our business will be harmed.

      Our products are primarily targeted at enabling the printing of black and white and color digital data. Demand for networked printers and copiers containing our technology decreased over the past several years due principally to the global economic downturn. If demand for digital printing products and services

containing our technology were to continue to decline, or if the demand for our OEM customers’ specific printers or copiers for which our products are designed were to continue to decline, our revenue would likely decrease. Our products are combined with products, such as digital printers and copiers, which are large capital expenditures as well as discretionary purchase items for the end customer. In difficult economic times such as we have recently experienced, spending on information technology typically decreases. As the products in which our products are incorporated are of a more discretionary nature than many other technology products, we may be more adversely impacted by deteriorating general economic conditions than other technology firms outside of our market. The decrease in demand for our products has harmed and could, in the future, continue to harm our results of operations and we do not know whether demand for our products or our customers’ products will increase or improve from current levels.

      We depend upon skilled employees, such as software and hardware engineers, quality assurance engineers and other technical professionals with specialized skills. We are headquartered in the Silicon Valley where competition has historically been intense among companies to hire engineering and technical professionals. In times of professional labor imbalances, it has in the past and is likely in the future to be difficult for us to locate and hire qualified engineers and technical professionals and for us to retain these people. There are many technology companies located near our corporate offices in the Silicon Valley that may try to hire our employees. The movement of our stock price may also impact our ability to hire and retain employees. If we do not offer competitive compensation, we may not be able to recruit or retain employees. We offer a broad-based equity compensation plan based on granting options and shares of common stock from stockholder-approved plans in order to be competitive in the labor market. If stockholders do not approve additional shares for these plans or new plans for future grants when necessary to enable us to offer compensation competitive with those offered by other companies seeking the same employees, it may be difficult for us to hire and retain skilled employees. If we cannot successfully hire and retain employees, we may not be able to develop products or to meet demand for our products in a timely fashion and our results of operations may be harmed.

      Since our inception, we have used stock options and other long-term equity incentives as a fundamental component of our employee retention packages. We believe that stock options and other long-term equity incentives directly motivate our employees to maximize long-term stockholder value and, through the use of vesting, encourage employees to remain with our company. The Financial Accounting Standards Board has announced changes to US GAAP that, when implemented, will require us to record a charge to earnings for employee stock option grants and issuances of stock under employee stock purchase plans, or ESPPs. This regulation could negatively impact our GAAP earnings. For example, recording a charge for employee stock options under SFAS No. 123, Accounting for Stock-Based Compensation would have reduced net income by $17.2 million, $17.8 million and $21.8 million for the years ended December 31, 2004, 2003 and 2002, respectively. In addition, new regulations implemented by The Nasdaq National Market requiring shareholder approval for all stock option plans could make it more difficult for us to grant options to employees in the future. To the extent that new regulations make it more difficult or expensive to grant options to employees, we may incur increased costs, change our equity incentive strategy or find it difficult to attract, retain and motivate employees, each of which could materially and adversely affect our business.

      Our operating results depend to a significant extent on continual improvement of our existing products and technologies and rapid innovation of new products and technologies by us. Our success depends not only on our ability to predict future requirements, but also to successfully develop and introduce new products that address end-user needs or add additional functionality that end-users will demand. Any delays in the launch or

availability of new products we are planning which has occurred in the current year could harm our financial results. During transitions from existing products to new products, customers may delay or cancel orders for existing products. Our results of operations may be harmed if we cannot successfully manage product transitions or provide adequate availability of products after they have been introduced.

      We must continue to make significant investments in research and development in order to enhance performance and functionality of our products, including product lines different than our Fiery, Splash, MicroPress and EDOX servers and embedded controllers. We cannot assure you that we will successfully identify new product opportunities, develop and introduce new products to market in a timely manner, or achieve market acceptance of our products. Also, when we decide to develop new products, our research and development expenses generally increase in the short term without a corresponding increase in revenue, which can harm our operating results. Finally, we cannot assure you that products and technologies developed by our own customers and others will not render our products or technologies obsolete or noncompetitive.

      We continue to explore opportunities to develop product lines different from our current servers and embedded controllers, such as the proofing and print management software, document scanning solutions, prepress software solutions and web submission tools, among others. We expect to continue to invest funds to develop new distribution and marketing channels for these and additional new products and services, which will increase our operating expenses. We do not know if we will be successful in developing these channels or whether the market will accept any of our new products or services or if we will generate sufficient revenues from these activities to offset the additional operating expenses we incur. In addition, even if we are able to introduce new products or services, if customers do not accept these new products or services or if we are not able to price such products or services competitively, our operating results will likely suffer.

      Most of our current products include software that we must license from Adobe. Specifically, we are required to obtain separate licenses from Adobe for the right to use Adobe PostScript® software in each type of copier or printer used with a Fiery Server or Controller. Although to date we have successfully obtained licenses to use Adobe’s PostScript® software when required, Adobe is not required to and we cannot be certain that Adobe will, grant future licenses to Adobe PostScript® software on reasonable terms, in a timely manner, or at all. In addition, in order to obtain licenses from Adobe, Adobe requires that we obtain from them quality assurance approvals for our products that use Adobe software. Although to date we have successfully obtained such quality assurances from Adobe, we cannot be certain Adobe will grant us such approvals in the future. If Adobe does not grant us such licenses or approvals, if the Adobe licenses are terminated, or if our relationship with Adobe is otherwise materially impaired, we would likely be unable to sell products that incorporate Adobe PostScript® software and our financial condition and results of operations would be significantly harmed. In some products we have introduced internally developed substitute software that does not require any license from Adobe. The costs to continue to develop software internally could increase our research and development expenditures and we may not be able to recapture those costs through increased sales.

      Certain components necessary for the manufacture of our products are obtained from a sole supplier or a limited group of suppliers. These include processors from Intel and other related semiconductor components. We do not maintain long-term agreements with any of our component suppliers and conduct our business with such suppliers solely on a purchase order basis. Because the purchase of certain key components involves long lead times, in the event of unanticipated volatility in demand for our products, we have been in the past and may in the future be unable to manufacture certain products in a quantity sufficient to meet OEM customer or end-user demand. In addition, as has occurred in the past, in the event that anticipated demand does not

materialize, we may hold excess quantities of inventory that could become obsolete. In order to meet projected demand, we maintain an inventory of components for which we are dependent upon sole or limited source suppliers and components with prices that fluctuate significantly. As a result, we are subject to a risk of inventory obsolescence, which could adversely affect our operating results and financial condition. Additionally, the market prices and availability of certain components, particularly memory and Intel designed components, which collectively represent a substantial portion of the total manufactured cost of our products, have fluctuated significantly in the past. Such fluctuations in the future could have a material adverse effect on our operating results and financial condition including a reduction in gross margins.

      We subcontract with other companies to manufacture our products and we do not have long-term agreements with these sub-contractors. We rely on the ability of our sub-contractors to produce products to be sold to our customers and while we closely monitor our sub-contractors’ performance we cannot assure you that such sub-contractors will continue to manufacture our products in a timely and effective manner. The weakened economy has led to the dissolution, bankruptcy or consolidation of some of the sub-contractors who are able to manufacture our products, decreasing the available number of sub-contractors. If the available number of sub-contractors continues to decrease, it is possible that we will not be able to secure appropriate sub-contractors to fulfill our demand in a timely manner or at all, particularly if demand for our products increases, or if we lose one or more of our current sub-contractors. Fewer sub-contractors may also reduce our negotiating leverage regarding product costs. Difficulties experienced by our sub-contractors, including financial problems and the inability to make or ship our products or fix quality assurance problems, could harm our business, operating results and financial condition. If we decide to change sub-contractors, we could experience delays in setting up new sub-contractors which would result in delay in delivery of our products and potentially the cancellation of orders for our products. A high concentration of our products is manufactured at a single sub-contractor location, Sanmina-SCI in Colorado. Should Sanmina-SCI experience any inability or unwillingness to manufacture or deliver product from this location our business, financial condition and operations could be harmed. Since we do not maintain long-term agreements with our sub-contractors, any of our sub-contractors could enter into agreements with our competitors that might restrict or prohibit such sub-contractors from manufacturing our products or could otherwise lead to an inability of such sub-contractor from filling our orders in a timely manner. In such event, we may not be able to find suitable replacement sub-contractors and our business, financial condition and operations would likely be harmed.

      Our results of operations have typically followed a seasonal pattern reflecting the buying patterns of our large OEM customers. In the fiscal quarter completed December 31, 2004 and in past fiscal fourth quarters (the quarter ending December 31) our results have been adversely affected because some or all of our OEM customers decrease, or otherwise delay, fourth quarter orders. Over the past several years our OEM customers have lowered channel inventories throughout the year, causing this effect to shift more from the fourth quarter into the first quarter, when our OEM customers typically have lower sales of their own products. In addition, the first fiscal quarter traditionally has been a weaker quarter because our OEM customers focus on training their sales forces and have reduced sales to their customers. The primary reasons for these seasonal patterns are:

      As a result of these factors, we believe that period to period comparisons of our operating results are not meaningful and you should not rely on such comparisons to predict our future performance. We anticipate that future operating results may fluctuate significantly due to the continuation or changes in this seasonal demand pattern.

      We seek to develop new technologies and products from both internal and external sources. As part of this effort, we have in the past made, and will continue to make, acquisitions of other companies or other companies’ assets. Acquisitions involve numerous risks, such as:

      Acquisitions are inherently risky and we cannot assure you that our previous or future acquisitions will be successful or will not harm our business, operating results, financial condition, or stock price.

      Approximately 45%, 49% and 47% of our revenue from the sale of products for the years ended December 31, 2004, 2003 and 2002, respectively, came from sales outside North America, primarily to Europe and Japan. We expect that sales outside North America will continue to represent a significant portion of our total revenue. We are subject to certain risks because of our international operations. These risks include the regulatory requirements of foreign governments which may apply to our products, as well as requirements for export licenses which may be required for the export of certain technologies. The necessary export licenses may be delayed or difficult to obtain, which could cause a delay in our international sales and hurt our product revenue. Other risks include trade protection measures, natural disasters and political or economic conditions in a specific country or region.

      Given the significance of our non-US sales to our total product revenue, we face a continuing risk from the fluctuation of the US dollar versus the Japanese yen, the euro and other major European currencies and

numerous Southeast Asian currencies. We typically invoice our customers in US dollars and this may result in our products becoming more expensive in the local currency of our customers, thereby reducing our ability to sell our products. When we do invoice our customers in local currencies, our cash flows and earnings are exposed to fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates between the currency of the invoice and the U.S. dollar. In January 2003, we acquired Best GmbH, whose sales are principally denominated in the euro. Sales from this subsidiary increase our exposure to currency fluctuations. In addition, we have a substantial number of international employees which creates material operating costs denominated in foreign currencies. In Europe, where we have a significant presence, our sales and marketing expenses and general and administrative expenses have risen in part due to the weakened US dollar. Our efforts to reduce the risk from our international operations and from fluctuations in foreign currencies or interest rates may not be successful, which could harm our financial condition and operating results.

      We rely on a combination of copyright, patent, trademark and trade secret protection, nondisclosure agreements and licensing and cross-licensing arrangements to establish, maintain and protect our intellectual property rights, all of which afford only limited protection. We have patents and pending patent applications in the United States and in various foreign countries. There can be no assurance that patents will issue from our pending applications or from any future applications, or that, if issued, any claims allowed will be sufficiently broad to protect our technology. Any failure to adequately protect our proprietary information could harm our financial condition and operating results. We cannot be certain that any patents that have been or may in the future be issued to us, or which we license from third parties, or any other of our proprietary rights will not be challenged, invalidated or circumvented. In addition, we cannot be certain that any rights granted to us under any patents, licenses or other proprietary rights will provide adequate protection of our proprietary information.

      Litigation has been and may continue to be necessary to defend and enforce our proprietary rights. Such litigation, whether or not concluded successfully for us, could involve significant expense and the diversion of our attention and other resources, which could harm our financial condition and operating results.

      Third parties have claimed in the past and may claim in the future that our products infringe, or may infringe, their proprietary rights. Such claims have in the past resulted in lengthy and expensive litigation and could do so in the future. Such claims and any related litigation, whether or not we are successful in the litigation, could result in substantial costs and diversion of our resources, which could harm our financial condition and operating results. Although we may seek licenses from third parties covering intellectual property that we are allegedly infringing, we cannot assure you that any such licenses could be obtained on acceptable terms, if at all.

      Our products consist of hardware and software developed by ourselves and others. Our products may contain undetected errors and we have in the past discovered software and hardware errors in certain of our products after their introduction, resulting in warranty expense and other expenses incurred in connection with rectifying such errors. Errors could be found in new versions of our products after commencement of commercial shipments, and any such errors could result in a loss or delay in market acceptance of such products and thus harm our reputation and revenues. In addition, errors in our products (including errors in licensed third party software) detected prior to new product releases could result in delays in the introduction of new products and in additional expense to correct the errors, which could harm our operating results.

      Maintaining the security of our software and hardware products is an issue of critical importance to our customers and for us. There are individuals and groups who develop and deploy viruses, worms and other

malicious software programs that could attack our products. Although we take preventative measures to protect our products, and we have a response team that is notified of high-risk malicious events, these procedures may not be sufficient to mitigate damage to our products. Actual or perceived security vulnerabilities in our products could lead some customers to seek to return products, to reduce or delay future purchases or to purchase competitive products. Customers may also increase their expenditures on protecting their computer systems from attack, which could delay purchases of our products. Any of these actions by customers could adversely affect our revenues.

      We rely on our network infrastructure, internal technology systems and our internal and external websites for our development, marketing, operational, support and sales activities. Our hardware and software systems related to such activities are subject to damage from malicious code released into the public Internet through recently discovered vulnerabilities in popular software programs. These systems are also subject to acts of vandalism and to potential disruption by actions or inactions of third parties. Any event that causes failures or interruption in our hardware or software systems could harm our business, financial condition and operating results.

      Our corporate headquarters, including most of our research and development facilities, are located in the San Francisco Bay Area, an area known for seismic activity. This area has also experienced flooding in the past. In addition, many of the components necessary to supply our products are purchased from suppliers based in areas including the San Francisco Bay Area, Taiwan and Japan and are therefore subject to risk from natural disasters. A significant natural disaster, such as an earthquake, flood, tsunami or typhoon, could harm our business, financial condition and operating results.

      Our employees, suppliers and customers are located worldwide. We face the risk that our employees, suppliers, or customers, either through travel or contact with other individuals, could become exposed to contagious diseases such as severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS. In addition, governments in those regions have from time-to-time imposed quarantines and taken other actions in response to contagious diseases that could affect our operations. If a significant number of employees, suppliers, or customers were unable to fulfill their obligations, due to contagious diseases, actions taken in response to contagious diseases, or other reasons, our business, financial condition and operating results could be harmed.

      We have an investment portfolio of mainly fixed income securities classified as available-for-sale securities. As a result, our investment portfolio is subject to interest rate risk and will fall in value if market interest rates increase. We attempt to limit this exposure to interest rate risk by investing in securities with maturities of less than three years; however, we may be unable to successfully limit our risk to interest rate fluctuations and this may cause our investment portfolio to decrease in value.

      The market price for our common stock has been and may continue to be volatile. For example, during the twelve-month period ended December 31, 2004, the price of our common stock as reported on the Nasdaq National Market ranged from a low of $15.00 to a high of $28.81. We expect our stock price to be subject to fluctuations as a result of a variety of factors, including factors beyond our control. These factors include:

      Because of this volatility, we may fail to meet the expectations of our stockholders or of securities analysts from time-to-time and the trading prices of our securities could decline as a result. In addition, the stock market has experienced significant price and volume fluctuations that have particularly affected the trading prices of equity securities of many high-technology companies. These fluctuations have often been unrelated or disproportionate to the operating performance of these companies. Any negative change in the public’s perception of high-technology companies could depress our stock price regardless of our operating results.

      Any repurchases pursuant to our stock repurchase program could affect our stock price and add volatility. There can be no assurance that the repurchases will be made at the best possible price. The existence of a stock repurchase program could also cause our stock price to be higher than it would be in the absence of such a program and could potentially reduce the market liquidity for our stock. Additionally, we are permitted and could discontinue our stock repurchase program at any time and any such discontinuation could cause the market price of our stock to decline.

      Section 404 of SOX requires that we establish and maintain an adequate internal control structure and procedures for financial reporting and assess on an on-going basis the design and operating effectiveness of our internal control structure and procedures for financial reporting. Our independent registered public accounting firm are required to attest audit both the design and operating effectiveness of our internal controls and management’s assessment of the design and the effectiveness of its internal controls. Although no known material weaknesses exist at this time, it is possible that material weaknesses may be found in the future. If we are unable to remediate the weaknesses, the independent registered public accounting firm would be required to issue an adverse opinion on our internal controls.

      Because opinions on internal controls have not been required in the past, it is uncertain what impact an adverse opinion would have upon our stock price.

      In June 2003, we issued $240.0 million in 1.50% convertible senior debentures due in 2023. During the period the debentures are outstanding, we will have debt service obligations on the debentures of approximately $3.6 million per year in interest payments, payable semi-annually. In addition, beginning June  1, 2008, we could be required to pay contingent interest of 0.35% if during any six-month period from June 1 to November 30 and December 1 to May 31, the average market price of the debentures for the five trading days ending on the third trading day immediately preceding the first day of the relevant six-month period equals 120% or more of the principal amount of the debentures.

      Our debt service obligations related to the debentures include the following redemption and repurchase terms that could also affect our cash position:

      If we issue other debt securities in the future, our debt service obligations will increase. We intend to fulfill our debt service obligations from cash generated by our operations, if any, and from our existing cash and investments. If we are unable to generate sufficient cash to meet these obligations and must instead use our existing cash or investments, we may have to reduce, curtail or terminate other activities of our business. We may add lines of credit and obtain other long-term debt and mortgage financing to finance capital expenditures in the future.

      Our indebtedness could have significant negative consequences. For example, it could:

      In June 2003, we issued $240.0 million in 1.50% senior convertible debentures due in 2023. The debentures are convertible into our shares of common stock at an initial conversion rate of 37.8508 shares per $1,000 principal amount of debentures (which represents a conversion price of approximately $26.42 per share) under certain conditions and subject to certain adjustments. Holders may convert their debentures into shares of our common stock prior to 2023 under the following circumstances:

      On June 1, 2013 and 2018, a holder may require us to repurchase all or a portion of that holder’s debentures at a repurchase price equal to 100% of the principal amount of those debentures plus accrued and unpaid interest, including contingent interest, if any. We may choose to pay the repurchase price on those dates in cash, in shares of our common stock or a combination of cash and shares of our common stock.

      A holder may require us to repurchase all or a portion of that holder’s debentures if a fundamental change, as defined in the indenture, occurs prior to June 1, 2008 at 100% of their principal amount, plus any accrued and unpaid interest, including contingent interest, if any. We may choose to pay the repurchase price in cash, shares of our common stock, or if we have been acquired by another company and we are not the surviving corporation, shares of common stock, ordinary shares or American Depositary Shares of the surviving corporation, or a combination of cash and stock.

      Any time that we calculate earnings per share on a diluted basis, we must consider whether the 9,084,182 shares that could be issued under our debentures are dilutive to our earnings. If they are dilutive, after adjusting net income for the after tax effect of interest and other debt-related costs, we must then present our diluted earnings on an “if converted” basis.

      We are exposed to various market risks, including changes in foreign currency exchange rates. Market risk is the potential loss arising from adverse changes in market rates and prices, such as foreign currency exchange and interest rates. We do not enter into derivatives or other financial instruments for trading or speculative purposes. We may enter into financial instrument contracts to manage and reduce the impact of changes in foreign currency exchange rates. The counterparties to such contracts are major financial institutions.

      We maintain an investment portfolio of various holdings, types and maturities. These securities are generally classified as available–for-sale and consequently, are recorded on the balance sheet at fair value with unrealized gains and losses reported as a separate component of accumulated other comprehensive income (loss). At any time, a sharp rise in interest rates could have a material adverse impact on the fair value of our investment portfolio. Conversely, declines in interest rates could have a material impact on interest earnings for our portfolio. We do not currently hedge these interest rate exposures.

      The following table presents the hypothetical change in fair values in the financial instruments held by us at December 31, 2004 that are sensitive to changes in interest rates. The modeling technique used measures the change in fair values arising from selected potential changes in interest rates. Market changes reflect immediate hypothetical parallel shifts in the yield curve of plus or minus 100 basis points (BPS) over a twelve-month time horizon.

      This table estimates the fair value of the portfolio at a twelve-month time horizon:

      The fair value of our long-term debt, including current maturities, was estimated to be $229.5 million as of December 31, 2004 and the carrying value was $240.0 million. The fair market value of our convertible senior debentures was estimated based upon quoted market prices.

      We do not use any derivatives for trading or speculative purposes.

      The following discussion about our risk management activities includes “forward-looking statements” that involve risks and uncertainties. Actual results could differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements.

      As a global concern, we face exposure to adverse movements in foreign currency exchange rates. These exposures may change over time as business practices evolve and could have a material adverse impact on our financial results. Our primary exposures are related to non-U.S. dollar-denominated sales in Japan and Europe and operating expenses in Japan and the Netherlands. At the present time, we do not hedge against these currency exposures, but as these exposures grow we may consider hedging against currency movements.

      We maintain investment portfolio holdings of various issuers, types and maturities, typically U.S. Treasury securities and municipal bonds. These securities are classified as available-for-sale and consequently are recorded on the balance sheet at fair value with unrealized gains and losses reported as a separate component of accumulated other comprehensive income (loss). These securities are not leveraged and are held for purposes other than trading.

Item 8: Financial Statements and Supplementary Data

REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM

To the Board of Directors and Stockholders of Electronics for Imaging Inc.:

      We have completed an integrated audit of Electronics for Imaging Inc.’s 2004 consolidated financial statements and of its internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2004 and audits of its 2003 and 2002 consolidated financial statements in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Our opinions, based on our audits, are presented below.

      In our opinion, the consolidated financial statements listed in the index appearing under Item 15(a)(1) present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of Electronics for Imaging Inc. and its subsidiaries at December 31, 2004 and 2003, and the results of their operations and their cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2004 in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America. In addition, in our opinion, the financial statement schedule listed in the index appearing under Item 15(a)(2) present fairly, in all material respects, the information set forth therein when read in conjunction with the related consolidated financial statements. These financial statements and financial statement schedule are the responsibility of the Company’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements and financial statement schedule based on our audits. We conducted our audits of these statements in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. An audit of financial statements includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements, assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, and evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.

      As discussed in Note 1 to the accompanying consolidated financial statements, effective for reporting periods ending after December 15, 2004, the Company adopted EITF Issue No. 04-08 “The Effect of Contingently Convertible Debt on Diluted Earnings per Share” and recomputed accordingly its previously reported diluted earnings per share.

      Also, in our opinion, management’s assessment, included in Management’s Report on Internal Control Over Financial Reporting appearing under Item 9A, that the Company maintained effective internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2004 based on criteria established in Internal Control — Integrated Framework issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO), is fairly stated, in all material respects, based on those criteria. Furthermore, in our opinion, the Company maintained, in all material respects, effective internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2004, based on criteria established in Internal Control — Integrated Framework issued by the COSO. The Company’s management is responsible for maintaining effective internal control over financial reporting and for its assessment of the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting. Our responsibility is to express opinions on management’s assessment and on the effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting based on our audit. We conducted our audit of internal control over financial reporting in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether effective internal control over financial reporting was maintained in all material respects. An audit of internal control over financial reporting includes obtaining an understanding of internal control over financial reporting, evaluating management’s assessment, testing and evaluating the design and operating effectiveness of internal control, and performing such other procedures as we consider necessary in the circumstances. We believe that our audit provides a reasonable basis for our opinions.

      A company’s internal control over financial reporting is a process designed to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. A company’s internal control over financial reporting includes those policies and procedures that (i) pertain to the maintenance of records that, in reasonable detail, accurately and fairly reflect the transactions and dispositions of the assets of the company; (ii) provide reasonable assurance that transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, and that receipts and expenditures of the company are being made only in accordance with authorizations of management and directors of the company; and (iii) provide reasonable assurance regarding prevention or timely detection of unauthorized acquisition, use, or disposition of the company’s assets that could have a material effect on the financial statements.

      Because of its inherent limitations, internal control over financial reporting may not prevent or detect misstatements. Also, projections of any evaluation of effectiveness to future periods are subject to the risk that controls may become inadequate because of changes in conditions, or that the degree of compliance with the policies or procedures may deteriorate.

      As described in Management’s Report on Internal Control over Financial Reporting, management has excluded Automated Dispatch Systems Inc. (ADS) from its assessment of internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2004 because it was acquired by the Company in a purchase business combination during fiscal year 2004. We have also excluded ADS from our audit of internal control over financial reporting. ADS is a wholly-owned subsidiary whose total assets and total revenues represent 0.1% and 1.7%, respectively, of the related consolidated financial statement amounts as of and for the year ended December 31, 2004.

San Jose, California

March 15, 2005

Electronics for Imaging, Inc.

Consolidated Balance Sheets

See accompanying notes to consolidated financial statements.

Electronics for Imaging, Inc.

Consolidated Statements of Income