GHENT, Belgium—At booth 5202 at Labelexpo Americas 2018, Esko will be on a stand with its Danaher sister companies X-Rite, Pantone and, for the first time, AVT. Esko is working together with them to integrate its automation and collaboration solutions with the X-Rite and Pantone color technology and AVT’s camera inspection solutions.
In addition to its own booth, Esko solutions will be found in many more partner booths throughout the Labelexpo Americas aisles.
MIS and quality control
Cerm Business Management Software (booth 6580): A global supplier of business management software for narrow web printers and part of the Heidelberg group that teamed up with Esko to productize the integration between MIS and prepress.
EFI (booth 155): The award-winning integration between Esko Automation Engine and EFI’s Packaging Suite with Radius at its core automates the information flow between prepress and admin to avoid errors and redundancy but to also increase efficiencies.
GlobalVision (booth 1601): As a global supplier of print quality control software, GlobalVision technology is integrated into Esko’s viewing technology as well as Esko’s Automation Engine to offer customers the ability to efficiently deal with more jobs per day while reducing the number of quality issues.
Label Traxx (booth 5920): Esko Automation Engine and Label Traxx are seamlessly integrated with a bi-directional data stream between the order entry and prepress departments.
Flexo Plate Making
Asahi Photoproducts (booth 6479): Esko’s CDI flexo plate imager installations at each of Asahi’s Technology Centers in Belgium, Japan and China have helped the company to better support customers and boost R&D efforts. Asahi will be featuring their AWP water washable plates with Clean Transfer Technology.
DuPont (booth 749): Shares a long-term partnership with Esko that is committed to innovation in sustainable packaging print solutions.
Fujifilm (booth 5621): Its partnership with Esko incorporates Esko’s CDI and application support in a joint effort to support customers in both label and flexible packaging printing. Fujifilm will be showing their new Flenex plates.
MacDermid Graphics Solutions (booth 528): MacDermid uses Esko screening, imaging and CDI plate making solutions to maximize the performance of their broad line of digital flexo plates.
Printing and Ink
Bobst (booths 5300, 5403): Esko will be demonstrating its flexo plate making workflow as part of its cooperation in REVO. Esko will also be participating in a REVO master class each day on the Bobst booth at 4 pm.
Domino (booths 6523, 6545): Domino N-Series presses combine high productivity with the flexibility of digital printing. The latest Digital Front End v2.0 deliver improved variable data printing (VDP) capabilities in conjunction with Esko color management.
Durst Image Technology US (5901): Durst Phototechnik works with Esko using its digital front end RIP and color management software for a more complete customer solution.
Edale (Matik booth 5803): Edale has partnered with Esko to share the best available labels and packaging printing technology to support customers.
Epson America Inc (booth 5813): Epson and Esko bring together advanced digital technologies that are meant to provide customers with an effective way to streamline prepress and workflow in order to print consistent, high-quality color labels.
HP Indigo (booth 3429): HP will demonstrate how Esko Automation Engine QuickStart for Labels connects to HP presses and how easy it is to get more jobs to press quicker. Part of this automation is Esko’s Color Preflight, which analyzes the artwork and determines the best color space and ink separations to print the job.
Mark Andy (booth 319 and 749): On stand 319, experience Mark Andy ProWORX, the digital front end solution designed exclusively for the Mark Andy Digital Series. Stand 749 will showcase advanced plate making workflows offered through Mark Andy Print Products, in partnership with Esko and DuPont.
Mouvent (Bobst booth 5400): A company founded by a joint venture between Bobst and Radex, which focuses exclusively on digital print using pioneering digital technology.
MPS (booth 911): MPS will be showing its connectivity platform, ‘talk to me,’ that promotes interaction between MPS printing presses and Management Information Systems (MIS). Esko color management and workflow management are important in the prepress stage of the process, while Esko Automation Engine sends information to the press for automated job configuration.
OMET Srl (booths 3123): Has partnered with Esko to share labels and packaging printing technology to support customers and help them improve performance.
Automation Arena
Esko will be significantly active at this year’s Automation Arena, the inaugural ground-breaking demonstration area at Labelexpo Americas, where a number of cooperating partners will be digitally printing several different self-adhesive label designs and printing multiple shrink sleeve designs using flexo. Visitors can attend a 45-minute show, where they will witness conventional and digital label production from order entry to finished goods, with all steps in between.
The management information system will be integrated with Esko Software Platform, supporting end-to-end label and shrink sleeve workflow. Label personalization, preflighting, quality checks, color management, the creation of rules for inspection, proofing and customer approval are progressed using Esko’s Software Platform and Automation Engine. Access to the Automation Arena is free for all Labelexpo Americas 2018 registered visitors.