ELECTRONICS FOR IMAGING INC
S-8, EX-99.1, 2000-07-06
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                                                                    EXHIBIT 99.1

                          ELECTRONICS FOR IMAGING, INC.
                        2000 EMPLOYEE STOCK PURCHASE PLAN

                             Adopted March 14, 2000
                  Approved by the Stockholders on May 11, 2000
                         Effective Date: August 1, 2000

1.       Purpose.

         (a) The purpose of this 2000 Employee  Stock Purchase Plan (the "Plan")
is to provide a means by which  employees of  Electronics  for Imaging,  Inc., a
Delaware  corporation  (the  "Company"),  and  its  Affiliates,  as  defined  in
subparagraph 1(b), which are designated as provided in subparagraph 2(b), may be
given an opportunity to purchase stock of the Company.

         (b)  The  word  "Affiliate"  as  used  in the  Plan  means  any  parent
corporation or subsidiary corporation of the Company, as those terms are defined
in Sections 424(e) and (f), respectively,  of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986,
as amended (the "Code").

         (c) The Company,  by means of the Plan, seeks to retain the services of
its  employees,  to secure and  retain the  services  of new  employees,  and to
provide  incentives for such persons to exert maximum efforts for the success of
the Company.

         (d) The  Company  intends  that the  rights  to  purchase  stock of the
Company  granted under the Plan be considered  options issued under an "employee
stock purchase plan" as that term is defined in Section 423(b) of the Code.

2.       ADMINISTRATION.

         (a) The Plan  shall be  administered  by the  Board of  Directors  (the
"Board") of the Company unless and until the Board delegates administration to a
committee  as  provided  in  subparagraph  2(c).  Whether  or not the  Board has
delegated  administration  the Board shall have the final power to determine all
questions of policy and expediency that may arise in the  administration  of the
Plan.

         (b) The  Board  shall  have the  power,  subject  to,  and  within  the
limitations of, the express provisions of the Plan:

                  (i) To determine  when and how rights to purchase stock of the
Company  shall be granted  and the  provisions  of each  offering of such rights
(which need not be identical).

                  (ii) To designate  from time to time which  Affiliates  of the
Company shall be eligible to participate in the Plan.

                  (iii) To construe and  interpret  the Plan and rights  granted
under it, and to  establish,  amend and  revoke  rules and  regulations  for its
administration.  The Board,  in the  exercise  of this  power,  may  correct any
defect,  omission or inconsistency in the Plan, in a manner and to the extent it
shall deem necessary or expedient to make the Plan fully effective.

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                  (iv) To amend the Plan as provided in paragraph 13.

                  (v)  Generally,  to exercise  such powers and to perform  such
acts as the Board or the Committee  deems  necessary or expedient to promote the
best  interests  of the Company and its  Affiliates  and to carry out the intent
that the Plan be treated as an "employee stock purchase plan" within the meaning
of Section 423 of the Code.

         (c) The Board may  delegate  administration  of the Plan to a committee
composed  of not fewer than two (2) members of the Board (the  "Committee").  If
administration  is  delegated  to a  Committee,  the  Committee  shall have,  in
connection with the administration of the Plan, the powers theretofore possessed
by the Board, subject,  however, to such resolutions,  not inconsistent with the
provisions  of the Plan,  as may be adopted from time to time by the Board.  The
Board  may  abolish  the  Committee  at any time and  revest  in the  Board  the
administration of the Plan.

3.       SHARES SUBJECT TO THE PLAN.

         (a) Subject to the  provisions of paragraph 12 relating to  adjustments
upon  changes in stock,  the stock that may be sold  pursuant to rights  granted
under the Plan shall not exceed in the aggregate four hundred thousand (400,000)
shares of the Company's common stock (the "Common Stock").

         (b) The stock subject to the Plan may be unissued  shares or reacquired
shares, bought on the market or otherwise.

4.       GRANT OF RIGHTS; OFFERING.

         (a) The Board or the  Committee  may from time to time grant or provide
for the grant of rights to purchase  Common Stock of the Company  under the Plan
to  eligible  employees  (an  "Offering")  on a date  or  dates  (the  "Offering
Date(s)") selected by the Board or the Committee. Each Offering shall be in such
form and shall  contain such terms and  conditions as the Board or the Committee
shall deem  appropriate,  which shall  comply with the  requirements  of Section
423(b)(5) of the Code that all employees  granted rights to purchase stock under
the Plan shall have the same rights and privileges.  The terms and conditions of
an Offering shall be incorporated by reference into the Plan and treated as part
of the Plan.  The provisions of separate  Offerings  need not be identical,  but
each Offering  shall include  (through  incorporation  of the provisions of this
Plan by reference  in the document  comprising  the Offering or  otherwise)  the
period  during which the  Offering  shall be  effective,  which period shall not
exceed  twenty-seven  (27) months  beginning  with the  Offering  Date,  and the
substance of the provisions contained in paragraphs 5 through 8, inclusive.

         (b) If an employee has more than one right  outstanding under the Plan,
unless  he or  she  otherwise  indicates  in  agreements  or  notices  delivered
hereunder:  (1) each  agreement  or notice  delivered by that  employee  will be
deemed to apply to all of his or her rights under the Plan, and (2) a right with
a  lower  exercise  price  (or an  earlier-granted  right,  if two  rights  have
identical  exercise  prices),  will be exercised to the fullest  possible extent
before a right with a higher  exercise price (or a  later-granted  right, if two
rights have identical exercise prices) will be exercised.

5.       ELIGIBILITY.

         (a) Rights may be granted  only to  employees of the Company or, as the
Board or the  Committee  may  designate  as provided in  subparagraph  2(b),  to
employees of any  Affiliate of the Company.  Except as provided in  subparagraph
5(b),  an employee of the Company or any  Affiliate  shall not be eligible to be
granted rights under the Plan unless,  on the Offering  Date,  such employee has
been in the employ of the Company or any  Affiliate for such  continuous  period
preceding such grant as the Board or the Committee may require,  but in no event
shall the  required  period of  continuous  employment  be greater  than two (2)
years. In addition,  unless  otherwise  determined by the Board or the Committee
and set  forth in the  terms of the  applicable  Offering,  no  employee  of the
Company or

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any Affiliate  shall be eligible to be granted rights under the Plan unless,  on
the Offering Date, such employee's customary employment with the Company or such
Affiliate  is for more than  twenty  (20)  hours per week and more than five (5)
months per calendar year.

         (b) The Board or the Committee may provide that each person who, during
the course of an Offering,  first becomes an eligible employee of the Company or
designated  Affiliate  will, on a date or dates  specified in the Offering which
coincides  with the day on which such  person  becomes an  eligible  employee or
occurs  thereafter,  receive a right  under that  Offering,  which  right  shall
thereafter  be deemed to be a part of that  Offering.  Such right shall have the
same  characteristics as any rights originally  granted under that Offering,  as
described herein, except that:

                  (i) the  date on which  such  right  is  granted  shall be the
"Offering Date" of such right for all purposes,  including  determination of the
exercise price of such right;

                  (ii) the  period of the  Offering  with  respect to such right
shall  begin  on its  Offering  Date  and end  coincident  with  the end of such
Offering; and

                  (iii)  the Board or the  Committee  may  provide  that if such
person  first  becomes an eligible  employee  within a specified  period of time
before the end of the Offering,  he or she will not receive any right under that
Offering.

         (c) No employee shall be eligible for the grant of any rights under the
Plan if, immediately after any such rights are granted, such employee owns stock
possessing five percent (5%) or more of the total combined voting power or value
of all classes of stock of the Company or of any Affiliate. For purposes of this
subparagraph  5(c),  the  rules of  Section  424(d) of the Code  shall  apply in
determining the stock  ownership of any employee,  and stock which such employee
may purchase under all outstanding  rights and options shall be treated as stock
owned by such employee.

         (d) An eligible  employee may be granted  rights under the Plan only if
such  rights,  together  with any other rights  granted  under  "employee  stock
purchase  plans" of the  Company and any  Affiliates,  as  specified  by Section
423(b)(8) of the Code, do not permit such employee's rights to purchase stock of
the  Company  or any  Affiliate  to accrue at a rate which  exceeds  twenty-five
thousand dollars ($25,000) of fair market value of such stock (determined at the
time such rights are  granted) for each  calendar  year in which such rights are
outstanding at any time.

         (e)  Officers  of the  Company and any  designated  Affiliate  shall be
eligible to participate in Offerings under the Plan, provided, however, that the
Board or the Committee may provide in an Offering that certain employees who are
highly compensated  employees within the meaning of Section  423(b)(4)(D) of the
Code shall not be eligible to participate.

6.       RIGHTS; PURCHASE PRICE.

         (a) On each  Offering  Date,  each  eligible  employee,  pursuant to an
Offering  made under the Plan,  shall be granted the right to purchase up to the
number of shares of Common  Stock of the Company  purchasable  with a percentage
designated by the Board or the Committee not exceeding ten percent (10%) of such
employee's  Earnings  (as  defined  by the Board for each  Offering)  during the
period which begins on the Offering Date (or such later date as the Board or the
Committee  determines for a particular  Offering) and ends on the date stated in
the  Offering,  which date shall be no later than the end of the  Offering.  The
Board or the  Committee  shall  establish  one or more dates  during an Offering
(each of which is hereinafter  referred to as a "Purchase Date") on which rights
granted  under the Plan shall be exercised and purchases of Common Stock carried
out in accordance with such Offering.

         (b) In connection  with each Offering made under the Plan, the Board or
the  Committee  may specify a maximum  number of shares that may be purchased by
any  employee  as well as a  maximum  aggregate  number  of

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shares  that  may be  purchased  by all  eligible  employees  pursuant  to  such
Offering.  In addition, in connection with each Offering that contains more than
one Purchase  Date,  the Board or the Committee may specify a maximum  aggregate
number of shares which may be  purchased by all eligible  employees on any given
Purchase  Date under the  Offering.  If the  aggregate  purchase  of shares upon
exercise of rights  granted  under the  Offering  would  exceed any such maximum
aggregate number, the Board or the Committee shall make a pro rata allocation of
the shares  available in as nearly a uniform manner as shall be practicable  and
as it shall deem to be equitable.

         (c) The purchase  price of stock  acquired  pursuant to rights  granted
under the Plan shall be not less than the lesser of:

                  (i) an amount equal to  eighty-five  percent (85%) of the fair
market value of the stock on the Offering Date; or

                  (ii) an amount equal to eighty-five  percent (85%) of the fair
market value of the stock on the Purchase Date.

7.       PARTICIPATION; WITHDRAWAL; TERMINATION.

         (a) An eligible  employee may become a participant in the Plan pursuant
to an Offering by delivering a participation agreement to the Company within the
time specified in the Offering, in such form as the Company provides.  Each such
agreement shall  authorize  payroll  deductions of up to the maximum  percentage
specified by the Board or the Committee of such employee's  Earnings (as defined
by the Board for each Offering) during the Offering. The payroll deductions made
for each participant  shall be credited to an account for such participant under
the Plan and  shall  be  deposited  with the  general  funds of the  Company.  A
participant may reduce (including to zero) or increase such payroll  deductions,
and an eligible employee may begin such payroll deductions,  after the beginning
of any Offering  only as provided for in the Offering.  A  participant  may make
additional payments into his or her account only if specifically provided for in
the Offering and only if the participant has not had the maximum amount withheld
during the Offering.

         (b) At any time during an Offering,  a participant may terminate his or
her  payroll  deductions  under  the Plan and  withdraw  from  the  Offering  by
delivering  to the  Company a notice of  withdrawal  in such form as the Company
provides.  Such  withdrawal  may be  elected at any time prior to the end of the
Offering except as provided by the Board or the Committee in the Offering.  Upon
such withdrawal from the Offering by a participant, the Company shall distribute
to such participant all of his or her accumulated payroll deductions (reduced to
the extent,  if any,  such  deductions  have been used to acquire  stock for the
participant) under the Offering,  without interest, and such participant's right
to acquire Common Stock under that Offering shall be automatically terminated. A
participant's  withdrawal  from an  Offering  will  have  no  effect  upon  such
participant's  eligibility to participate in any other  Offerings under the Plan
but such participant will be required to deliver a new  participation  agreement
in order to participate in subsequent Offerings under the Plan.

         (c)  Rights  granted  pursuant  to any  Offering  under the Plan  shall
terminate  immediately  upon cessation of a  participant's  employment  with the
Company and any  designated  Affiliate,  for any reason,  and the Company  shall
distribute to such  terminated  employee all of his or her  accumulated  payroll
deductions  (reduced to the extent,  if any, such  deductions  have been used to
acquire  stock  for  the  terminated  employee),  under  the  Offering,  without
interest.

         (d)  Rights  granted  under  the Plan  shall not be  transferable  by a
participant other than by will or the laws of descent and distribution,  or by a
beneficiary  designation as provided in paragraph 14, and during a participant's
lifetime, shall be exercisable only by such participant.

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8.       EXERCISE.

         (a) On each  Purchase  Date  specified in the relevant  Offering,  each
participant's  accumulated  payroll deductions and any other additional payments
specifically  provided for in the Offering  (without any increase for  interest)
will be applied to the purchase of whole  shares of stock of the Company,  up to
the maximum number of shares permitted pursuant to the terms of the Plan and the
applicable  Offering,  at the purchase price  specified in the Offering.  Unless
otherwise provided for in the applicable Offering, no fractional shares shall be
issued upon the exercise of rights granted under the Plan.  The amount,  if any,
of accumulated payroll deductions remaining in each participant's  account after
the  purchase of shares  which is less than the amount  required to purchase one
share of stock on the final  Purchase Date of an Offering  shall be held in each
such  participant's  account for the purchase of shares under the next  Offering
under the Plan,  unless such participant  withdraws from such next Offering,  as
provided in  subparagraph  7(b), or is no longer  eligible to be granted  rights
under the Plan,  as provided in  paragraph 5, in which case such amount shall be
distributed to the participant after such final Purchase Date, without interest.
The  amount,  if  any,  of  accumulated  payroll  deductions  remaining  in  any
participant's  account after the purchase of shares which is equal to the amount
required to purchase  whole shares of Common Stock on the final Purchase Date of
an Offering shall be distributed in full to the participant  after such Purchase
Date, without interest.

         (b) No rights  granted  under the Plan may be  exercised  to any extent
unless  the shares to be issued  upon such  exercise  under the Plan  (including
rights granted  thereunder) are covered by an effective  registration  statement
pursuant to the  Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the  "Securities  Act") and
the Plan is in material compliance with all applicable state,  foreign and other
securities  and other laws  applicable to the Plan. If on a Purchase Date in any
Offering  hereunder  the Plan is not so  registered  or in such  compliance,  no
rights  granted  under  the  Plan or any  Offering  shall be  exercised  on such
Purchase  Date, and the Purchase Date shall be delayed until the Plan is subject
to such an effective registration statement and such compliance, except that the
Purchase Date shall not be delayed more than twelve (12) months and the Purchase
Date shall in no event be more than  twenty-seven  (27) months from the Offering
Date.  If on the  Purchase  Date of any  Offering  hereunder,  as delayed to the
maximum extent  permissible,  the Plan is not registered and in such compliance,
no rights  granted  under the Plan or any Offering  shall be exercised  then all
payroll  deductions  accumulated  during the Offering (reduced to the extent, if
any, such  deductions  have been used to acquire  stock) shall be distributed to
the participants, without interest.

9.       COVENANTS OF THE COMPANY.

         (a) During the terms of the rights  granted under the Plan, the Company
shall at all times  make  reasonable  efforts  to keep  available  the number of
shares of stock  required to satisfy  such  rights,  provided  that this section
shall not require  the  Company to take any action that would  result in adverse
tax, accounting or financial consequences to the Company.

         (b) The Company shall seek to obtain from each federal,  state, foreign
or other regulatory  commission or agency having jurisdiction over the Plan such
authority as may be required to issue and sell shares of stock upon  exercise of
the rights granted under the Plan. If, after reasonable efforts,  the Company is
unable to obtain from any such  regulatory  commission  or agency the  authority
which counsel for the Company deems  necessary for the lawful  issuance and sale
of stock under the Plan,  the Company  shall be relieved  from any liability for
failure to issue and sell stock upon  exercise of such  rights  unless and until
such authority is obtained.

10.      USE OF PROCEEDS FROM STOCK.

         Proceeds  from the sale of stock to  participants  pursuant  to  rights
granted under the Plan shall constitute general funds of the Company.

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11.      RIGHTS AS A STOCKHOLDER.

         A  participant  shall not be deemed to be the holder of, or to have any
of the rights of a holder with respect to, any shares  subject to rights granted
under the Plan unless and until the participant's  shares acquired upon exercise
of rights  hereunder  are  recorded in the books of the Company (or its transfer
agent).

12.      ADJUSTMENTS UPON CHANGES IN STOCK.

         (a) If any change is made in the stock  subject to the Plan, or subject
to  any  rights   granted  under  the  Plan  (through   merger,   consolidation,
reorganization,  recapitalization,  stock  dividend,  dividend in property other
than cash, stock split, liquidating dividend, combination of shares, exchange of
shares,  change in corporate  structure or other  transaction  not involving the
receipt of consideration by the Company),  the Plan and outstanding  rights will
be appropriately  adjusted in the class(es) and maximum number of shares subject
to the Plan and the  class(es) and number of shares and price per share of stock
subject to outstanding  rights.  Such adjustments  shall be made by the Board or
the  Committee,   the  determination  of  which  shall  be  final,  binding  and
conclusive.  (The conversion of any convertible  securities of the Company shall
not be treated as a "transaction  not involving the receipt of  consideration by
the Company.")

         (b) In the event of: (1) a dissolution  or  liquidation of the Company;
(2) a  merger  or  consolidation  in  which  the  Company  is not the  surviving
corporation;  or (3) a  reverse  merger in which the  Company  is the  surviving
corporation but the shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately preceding the
merger are converted by virtue of the merger into other property, whether in the
form of securities,  cash or otherwise,  then, as determined by the Board in its
sole  discretion,   (i)  any  surviving  or  acquiring  corporation  may  assume
outstanding  rights or substitute  similar rights for those under the Plan, (ii)
such  rights may  continue  in full  force and  effect,  or (iii)  participants'
accumulated  payroll deductions may be used to purchase Common Stock immediately
prior to the transaction  described above and the participants' rights under the
ongoing Offering terminated.

13.      AMENDMENT OF THE PLAN.

         (a) The Board or the Committee at any time,  and from time to time, may
amend  the Plan.  However,  except as  provided  in  paragraph  12  relating  to
adjustments  upon  changes in stock,  no  amendment  shall be  effective  unless
approved by the  stockholders of the Company within twelve (12) months before or
after the  adoption of the  amendment  if such  amendment  requires  stockholder
approval in order for the Plan to obtain  employee stock purchase plan treatment
under Section 423 of the Code or to comply with the  requirements  of Rule 16b-3
promulgated under the Exchange Act.

         (b) The Board or the  Committee  may amend the Plan in any  respect the
Board  or the  Committee  deems  necessary  or  advisable  to  provide  eligible
employees  with the  maximum  benefits  provided  or to be  provided  under  the
provisions of the Code and the regulations  promulgated  thereunder  relating to
employee  stock  purchase  plans and/or to bring the Plan and/or rights  granted
under it into compliance therewith.

         (c) Rights and obligations under any rights granted before amendment of
the Plan shall not be altered or impaired by any  amendment of the Plan,  except
with the consent of the person to whom such rights  were  granted,  or except as
necessary  to comply  with any laws or  governmental  regulations,  or except as
necessary to ensure that the Plan and/or  rights  granted  under the Plan comply
with the requirements of Section 423 of the Code.

14.      DESIGNATION OF BENEFICIARY.

         (a) A participant  may file a written  designation of a beneficiary who
is to receive any shares and cash, if any, from the participant's  account under
the Plan in the event of such  participant's  death  subsequent to the end of an
Offering but prior to delivery to the  participant  of such shares and cash.  In
addition,  a participant may file a

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written  designation  of a  beneficiary  who is to  receive  any  cash  from the
participant's  account under the Plan in the event of such  participant's  death
during an Offering.

         (b) Such  designation of beneficiary  may be changed by the participant
at any time by written  notice in the form  prescribed  by the  Company.  In the
event of the death of a participant and in the absence of a beneficiary  validly
designated under the Plan who is living at the time of such participant's death,
the  Company   shall  deliver  such  shares  and/or  cash  to  the  executor  or
administrator  of the  estate  of the  participant,  or if no such  executor  or
administrator has been appointed (to the knowledge of the Company), the Company,
in its sole discretion,  may deliver such shares and/or cash to the spouse or to
any one or more  dependents  or relatives of the  participant,  or if no spouse,
dependent or relative is known to the Company,  then to such other person as the
Company may designate.

15.      TERMINATION OR SUSPENSION OF THE PLAN.

         (a) The  Board or the  Committee  in its  discretion,  may  suspend  or
terminate  the Plan at any time.  No rights may be granted  under the Plan while
the Plan is suspended or after it is terminated.

         (b) Rights and  obligations  under any rights granted while the Plan is
in effect shall not be altered or impaired by suspension or  termination  of the
Plan, except as expressly provided in the Plan or with the consent of the person
to whom such rights were granted, or except as necessary to comply with any laws
or  governmental  regulation,  or except as  necessary  to ensure  that the Plan
and/or rights granted under the Plan comply with the requirements of Section 423
of the Code.

16.      EFFECTIVE DATE OF PLAN.

         The Plan  shall  become  effective  on August  1, 2000 (the  "Effective
Date"), but no rights granted under the Plan shall be exercised unless and until
the Plan has been approved by the stockholders of the Company within twelve (12)
months before or after the date the Plan is adopted by the Board, which date may
be prior to the Effective Date.

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