computer science

Y Soft

Y Soft is a computer science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Y Soft rather than just read about it. In short: Y Soft Corporation is a multinational software and electronic hardware company founded in 2000, which operates in 21 countries. The company's headquarters are in Brno, Czech Republic, with offices in France, Denmark, Israel, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates, United States, Japan, Singapore, Australia, and China.

Key takeaways

Y Soft belongs to computer science; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Y Soft to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Y Soft from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Y Soft Corporation is a multinational software and electronic hardware company founded in 2000, which operates in 21 countries. The company's headquarters are in Brno, Czech Republic, with offices in France, Denmark, Israel, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates, United States, Japan, Singapore, Australia, and China.

Y Soft Ventures, the company's in-house venture arm, was established in 2014 as a way for the two co-founders to support other Central European entrepreneurs looking to start their own companies with business and financial support.

Products The company's core product is:

The YSoft SAFEQ platform, which manages on-premises and hybrid 2D and 3D printing and document capture, including pull printing, paper copying, faxing, scan workflows, cloud printing, and other tasks. The platform also comes as a Native cloud platform (SAFEQ Cloud Breeze and SAFEQ Cloud Pro), which enables various cloud printing capabilities in cloud or hybrid infrastructures. European manufactured hardware applications, including MFX and MFX4 card readers, OMNI Bridge gateway, and print terminals.

History Y Soft was co-founded in 2000 by Václav Muchna, CEO and chairman of the board, and Martin de Martini, chief information officer and board member, as part of a student project with Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic. Muchna left university and started Y Soft a month after his 20th birthday. Y Soft's first expansion was the opening of an office in Hungary. In 2008, Y Soft acquired XpertImage, resulting in the establishment of Y Soft North America in Grapevine, Texas, and new offices in Japan and Israel. In 2012, Y Soft filed and received a US patent for a "System for scalable processing of files in the cloud". The following year, the company expanded into Australia with the acquisition of Equitrac Systems, and also established an office in Dubai. In 2014, Y Soft created an in-house venture capital fund, Y Soft Ventures, to invest in Central European startups.

In late 2014, Y Soft invested a stake in, and later fully acquired, the Czech 3D printer company BE3D. Soon after, YSoft SAFEQ was integrated with the be3D printers to create a new product, YSoft BE3D eDee, a 3D printer integrated with YSoft SAFEQ providing print management, workflow and an accounting system. In 2015, Y Soft started offering print management and document capture as software as a service (SaaS) by subscription. In 2016, the company established YSoft Labs, an internal innovation center focusing on artificial intelligence, robotics, business processes and future developments in 3D printing. In July 2016 the YSoft SAFEQ version 6 was introduced as a platform. This year, Y Soft joined the Mopria Alliance. In 2017 YSoft SAFEQ became the de facto Mopria certified enterprise print server for printing from Android mobile apps. The company also opened offices in the UK. In 2016, Y Soft released Clerbo, an application serving as a document management system and a process tool. The product evolved into an employee lifecycle tool and Learning Experience Platform (LXP) for pre- and onboarding, learning and development, and offboarding. In 2017, Y Soft opened an office in China, and moved its manufacturing facility to larger premises. In 2019, Y Soft launched BE3D Academy, part of its YSoft BE3D eDee 3D printing education platform, containing resources related to 3D printing for use by teachers. Since 2020, Y Soft has been on the board of the United States Chamber of Commerce in the Czech Republic. A representative of the company was a board member between 2020 and 2022 and vice president from 2022. In 2022, Y Soft launched AIVA, developed by YSoft Labs as a system for automated testing of physical touchscreen devices, using a robotic arm and camera together with computer vision and machine learning. In 2022, Y Soft acquired the Danish cloud print company EveryonePrint, procuring a new office in Copenhagen. Using software acquired from EveryonePrint, Y Soft launched two subscription-based cloud print services, SAFEQ Cloud and SAFEQ Managed. Following the acquisition, former EveryonePrint CEO Tavs Dalaa became the new Chief Technology Officer of Y Soft. In 2025, Y Soft relaunched SAFEQ Cloud as a product family, with SAFEQ Cloud Breeze designed for cloud environments and SAFEQ Cloud Pro for hybrid environments. A month later, the company launched a new generation of card readers: MFX4 Reader, MFX4 Mobile, MFX4 Lite, and MFX4 Ultimate. In 2026, as part of a shift away from the original hardware-based approach, Y Soft launched AIVA as a public cloud service for automated testing of web applications, retaining the original approach of evaluating the user interface visually rather than by inspecting the underlying code.

References

Further reading Rivero, Victor. Practical in Prosek -- A Czech School’s Story of Engaging Students in the Hands-on World of 3D Printing EdtechDigest. 17 March 2017.

Illustrations

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Y Soft

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Y Soft claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In computer science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Y Soft before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Y Soft ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Y Soft

In research: Y Soft appears in computer science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Y Soft in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Y Soft is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 3D printer companies, Companies based in Brno, Czech brands, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Y Soft outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Y Soft in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what Y Soft means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
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Frequently asked questions

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Why does Y Soft matter?

Because it connects several computer science ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Y Soft?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

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It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Y Soft.