Esko, X-Rite Pantone, Enfocus and MediaBeacon at drupa 2016Inspiration Zones for better Packaging and Print
Ghent (Belgium), April 5, 2016 - At drupa, Esko (www.esko.com) will be showcasing a wide range of innovations together with sister company X-Rite Pantone and subsidiaries Enfocus and MediaBeacon. drupa takes place May 31 to June 10, 2016 in D sseldorf. The companies will be located in Hall 8b, stand A23.
Stand Overview
The main part of the 900-square-meter stand will consist of six Inspiration Zones that will take visitors through each step of a typical packaging production workflow. Each zone features solutions and key innovations from exhibiting companies.
The zones are:
Brands, Specification & Briefing
Design
Artwork & Repro
Flexo Platemaking
Printing & Ink Management
Finishing
Each Inspiration Zone features solutions and key innovations from exhibiting companies. In addition to these Inspiration Zones, Enfocus offerings will be present in the booth and Pantone will occupy a dedicated zone to display and sell its well-known Pantone guides and tools for color inspiration and design.
Brands, Specification & Briefing Zone
This zone will focus on the holistic packaging production process from idea to shelf, connecting stakeholders such as brands, designers, premedia and converters; and integrating with business systems such as MIS, ERP, PIM, MRM and Content Management.
X-Rite will showcase new tools that allow brand owners to select and communicate color so that it can be consistently achieved across multiple substrates, printing processes, and locations. Featured solutions include X-Rite's PantoneLIVE digital color management; Esko WebCenter for project management; and MediaBeacon, the digital asset management company acquired by Esko in 2015.
Design Zone
The focus here will be on creating designs that meet event the strictest brand owner's specifications, quickly and accurately. Attention will also be paid to connecting design with production/logistics for faster time to market and the ability to ensure achievable designs prior to the expense of production. 3D and digital color visualization support brand approval and drives down design time for complex multi-component POP displays and packaging. Overall, quality is improved with early automated error detection. Featured solutions include Pantone Color Guides (including the new Extended Gamut Guide), X-Rite CAPSURE, X-Rite i1Pro Solutions. ArtiosCAD structural design for packaging and displays, Cape Pack palletization software, Studio Visualizer for graphical packaging design in 3D and Studio Store Visualizer for hyper-realistic retail environment visualization.
Artwork & Repro Zone
This zone focuses on ways to produce print-ready artwork efficiently and avoid rework. The solutions showcased in this zone demonstrate how operations can address the larger number of smaller jobs running through prepress by better controlling and streamlining workflows. Visitors will see the latest techniques for ensuring accurate translation of color from proof to production-ready files. Among the showcased solutions in the Artwork & Repro Zone will be Esko WebCenter for online collaboration and approval on artwork, WebCenter Content Management, ArtPro , the new native PDF prepress editor linked to Automation Engine workflow automation software. Visitors will be demonstrated how this powerful combination takes 60% of errors and 50% of time out of the artwork preparation QA process. Further featuring here are the X-Rite i1Pro Solutions Family and Judge QC Light Booth.
Flexo Platemaking Zone
This zone showcases how customers can take control of flexo plate production and achieve faster plate production turnaround times while delivering more consistent flexo plates. Esko's developments in digital flexo platemaking focus on simplicity: with Esko solutions, making a digital flexo plate can be as easy as making an offset plate.
On display will be the most exciting innovation in flexo platemaking since the introduction of the CDI (Cyrel Digital Imager): a brand-new integrated flexo imaging and exposing solution, the CDI CRYSTAL 5080 XPS. This new flexo platemaking solution delivers impressive benefits, including a 68% reduction in operator time for platemaking; 50% reduction in operator training time; and 74% faster time to plate.
Printing and Ink Management Zone
This zone presents methods of dealing with the increased complexity of mixed printing environments (digital, flexo, gravure, offset) as well as achieving color consistency across an ever-growing number of substrates and production locations. Learn how X-Rite's newest PantoneLIVE offerings, coupled with the company's most sophisticated ink formulation software and color measurement devices, improve converters' speed to market by reducing set-up time and eliminating physical on-press approvals.
There will be information about fixed color palette (Extended Gamut) printing solutions that enable the profitable production of short run jobs on conventional flexo presses. Extended Gamut printing allows customers to reduce job changeover times and press downtime, produce more short run jobs per day, and reduce media waste and ink inventories. Press uptime is increased by 50%, and there's a 34% reduction in printed waste per job changeover.
Featured solutions include Esko Equinox software for Extended Gamut printing, X-Rite InkFormulation Software, PantoneLIVE Private Cloud, PantoneLIVE Rationalization Service, ColorCert, eXact Xp and IntelliTrax2.
Finishing Zone
This zone focuses on how companies can achieve increased throughput using digital finishing for packaging, sign and display applications.
Kongsberg digital cutting solutions address a tangible throughput increase by integrating cutting tables with workflow software for production control.
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Esko, X-Rite Pantone, Enfocus and MediaBeacon at drupa 2016Inspiration Zones for better Packaging and Print
