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Tag: Esko

Esko Equinox Completes Athena Graphics’ Advanced Prepress Solution

GHENT, Belgium—Belgium-based high-quality prepress specialist Athena Graphics added Esko Equinox to its portfolio to complete its Advanced Prepress workflow, an end-to-end solution for brand owners and packaging printers. Esko Equinox, which won an FTA Technical Innovation Award in 2014, creates color conversions for extended gamut printing and eliminates the need for spot colors, making production faster, more […]

Prairie State Group Installs New Technology & Achieves Safe Quality Food Recognition

FTA member Prairie State Group (PSG) realizes the importance of updating technology to better meet customer needs, in addition to providing safe food packaging, evident in a recent upgrade and a certificate obtained by the Safe Quality Food (SQF) Institute. A custom printer and laminator of flexible packaging and pressure-sensitive labels, PSG recently added MacDermid’s […]

CRON-ECRM Launching Global Flexo Business Unit

NORTH ANDOVER, MA—In September 2014, CRON Machinery & Electronics Co Ltd, global CTP manufacturer, decided to enter the North American graphic communications market, forming CRON-ECRM to serve that space. The company now has formed a new business unit designed to serve the global flexo industry, the CRON-ECRM Flexo Business Unit (FBU). The new unit will […]

West Essex Graphics Installs Esko CDI 5080 HD for Use with DuPont Plates

FAIRFIELD, NJ—West Essex Graphics (WEG) announced it installed an additional Esko CDI (Cyrel Digital Imager) 5080 HD unit with Pixel+ technology for use with DuPont Cyrel EASY flexo plates. “With continuing demand for our products and services, expanding our manufacturing footprint was essential if we were going to stay ahead of the pack. Once that […]

Esko Appoints Chris Miller Vice President, North America

GHENT, Belgium—Esko announced that Chris Miller has accepted the position of vice president North America. Miller assumed his new responsibilities at the beginning of 2018 in preparation for the planned retirement of Mark Quinlan, assuring an orderly succession of responsibilities during the first quarter of 2018. “With Mark Quinlan’s retirement, we thank him for the great […]

The Year in Review: What 2017 Meant to FTA, FLEXO Magazine & the Flexographic Industry

Forum 2017 definitively answered a question on every flexographer’s mind: “What’s trending now?” Its four-day agenda focused on what’s en vogue in flexo and, by extension, enlightened attendees as to how they can shore up their present-day processes for the future. It was fitting, because for flexography at large, 2017 as a whole was a […]

Esko Color Management, Workflow Solutions Installed at Koenig & Bauer Demo Center

RADEBEUL, Germany—Koenig & Bauer and Esko, both global leaders in the field of packaging printing, recently agreed to further strengthen their partnership. To this end, color management and workflow solutions from Esko were installed at the Koenig & Bauer demo center in Radebeul, Germany and are available with immediate effect for live presentations to interested […]

Nike Uses Esko’s Studio for Packaging Design

GHENT, Belgium—Nike’s Global Football Division is using Esko’s Studio for its packaging design, leading to considerable improvements in user experience, concept communication and time-savings, reports Esko. Esko showcased details of the partnership at Adobe MAX (Oct. 18-20, 2017), the annual event held by Adobe Systems for the computer design and development industries. Nike was seeking […]

New Plate Exposure Technology May Change the Rules of Flexo Color Separation

A cynical flexo printer once told me, “We use the flexographic printing process because we have to, not because we want to.” He went on to explain that with the substrates he printed on, the inks he was required to use, and the economic necessity to print roll to roll with variable repeat and inline […]