Packaging artwork & repro simplified
Watch the video now: How will the role of prepress change?
Speed up repro
Esko ArtPro+ is a PDF native prepress editor with an in-context user interface which removes all clutter from the screen and speeds up prepress editing. Users consistently report greater efficiency and faster job turnaround using the new editor.
by 50%
Reduce costs & errors
throughout the workflow
Esko’s solutions allow companies to reuse text and content from existing artwork. Esko’s WebCenter includes a controlled and automated process for updating existing artwork and for creating multiple variants for a single product. All stakeholders use a common database for content, automatically pulling text statements and other regulatory content into the artwork to ensure compliance.
The power of turnkey workflows
Automation Engine automates over 350 packaging specific prepress tasks and connects your people with organized data. Integrated preflight and error checking makes sure that your output is perfect. It saves time, reduces errors and helps your bottom line.
You can choose to deploy Automation Engine as a preconfigured production software to speed up your print production process, eliminate errors, reduce waste and increase job throughput. It is a turnkey solution that efficiently drives your proofing, plate making and presses. You are ready to take advantage of these workflows in less than 5 days.
For digital printers, Automation Engine is fully browser based and includes color preflight functionality that helps operators to select the number of stations the job can be printed in.
Quality control with GlobalVision
Esko’s prepress server, Automation Engine, works with automated GlobalVision inspection checks like text, artwork, spelling, braille, barcodes.
Prepress Simplified
“We no longer have to have faith in our prepress, we know it is good. Now we can focus on our printing process where there are significantly more variables that need controlling”
Source: Jim Knowles, Pre-press Operator, Tempo Plastics Ltd. Published: Jul 18, 2017 TVID: 696-B34-FA1
Packaging prepress in Illustrator and Photoshop
DeskPack is a collection of packaging prepress plugins for Adobe® Illustrator® and Adobe® Photoshop®. With these plugins, Illustrator® and Photoshop® become full-fledged packaging prepress applications: from trapping to creating shrink sleeve packaging.
Automate packaging prepress
Automating repetitive prepress tasks helps save time and boost quality. Automation Engine sets a new standard for prepress workflow automation. It is a new modular workflow server with dynamic workflows that are easy to set up and operate.
Flexo prepress
Printing images in a packaging workflow, more specifically a flexo workflow, requires a high level of expertise from the trade shop or printer/converter. Esko has a full suite of flexo prepress tools to help tackle all prepress pain points: trapping, distortion, screening, barcodes, white underprint, scum dot removal...
Gravure prepress
Esko’s software solutions have packaging knowledge at the very core. Dedicated rotogravure functionality ensures unrivalled quality and reduces errors and costs.
Packaging management
Companies looking to streamline their packaging preproduction are investing in a packaging management solution. WebCenter is a powerful and user-friendly web-based platform that manages packaging preproduction specification, approval and project life cycle.
Color management
Color consistency is critical in brand recognition. The Color Engine enables color management, expanded gamut printing and proofing across the packaging and print supply chain. At the heart of the Color Engine is a central color database for all color critical data.
Output
Imaging Engine is the RIP solution for the CDI: offering performance, reliability and compatibility with open industry standards.
