Color consistency is critical for brand recognition. Defining accurate brand and spot color standards is the first step in maintaining consistency. Meanwhile, demand for shorter packaging production runs for targeted campaigns and product variations are increasing. Extended gamut printing is one of the ways to meet these challenges. It lets a company print faster with superb quality while lowering printing costs. Equinox, Esko′s solution for extended gamut printing, standardizes printing presses on any set of 5, 6 7 or more inks. Users save on inks (and plates) for packaging work and printers save time as the press workload between jobs is reduced to merely changing printing plates.
Full HD Flexo: Quality making printers reconsider how to print jobs
Visitors can also learn more about HD Flexo and Full HD Flexo through real-life production samples that demonstrate the quality and extended color gamut. With HD Flexo, many printers have moved jobs from offset and gravure presses to flexo. Full HD Flexo delivers very high quality print with impactful solids and smoother highlights. The plates print more consistently than standard digital flexo plates. Full HD Flexo also eliminates manual steps traditionally associated with flexo platemaking, including back and main exposures. HD Flexo may be implemented without scrapping existing equipment and working methods.
i-cut Suite: Streamlining large format workflows
Many print companies have successfully diversified to wide format. i-cut Suite, 2012 InterTech Technology Award recipient, lets companies that drive narrow or large format digital printers and/or digital finishing systems streamline their workflows. i-cut Suite components include i-cut Preflight, handling efficient preflighting and editing of incoming PDF files; i-cut Layout, a module to interactively build and edit sheet layouts; i-cut Vision Pro, registering the actual dimensions and positions on the printed result for accurate cutting; and i-cut Automate, automating all these functions into a single workflow.
Esko seminars offered on the show floor
Esko will be extremely involved in the educational program during Graphics Canada, offering three separate presentations.
In the Wide Format Theatre, SGIA and Sign Media are teaming up to present a day of intensive seminars and training on wide format digital printing market and technologies. Sessions, taking place on the show floor, are free for visitors. At 2:00pm on Friday, November 22, Steve Bennett, Esko VP, Digital Finishing Business, will offer a presentation, "Expand Your Reach with Computerized Cutting Systems". Much more than a labour-saving device, computerized cutting systems have allowed wide-format producers the opportunity to expand outside of traditional shapes (rectangles) and into complex shapes (with speed and quality). This session helps executives determine if computerized cutting is right for their businesses.
In the Innovations Theatre, located on the Hall 3 show floor, Esko offers two different presentations. On Thursday, November 21 at 11:15am, Bob Biskner, Esko Senior Applications Specialist, delivers a 3D overview, "It all starts with structure...let's see what 3D can do for your business". At 11:15am on Friday, November 22, Julie Bauer, Esko Senior Applications Specialist, presents "Workflow in the large format world".
Esko partners on the exhibit floor
Esko reseller FUJIFILM Canada Inc. (booth 1200) will be demonstrating a Kongsberg i-XN 24 finishing table. Also at Graphics Canada 2013 will be Esko resellers Access Imaging Inc. (booth 3601) and Ernest Green & Son Ltd. (booth 1270).
"Esko looks forward to meeting print businesses during Graphics Canada," concludes Raad. "As a company, we have made serious inroads in Canada, offering many companies ways to become more efficient and cost-effective, while offering higher-quality work."