EskoArtwork has recently launched HD Flexo version 2.0. HD Flexo combines 4000 dpi HD optics on the EskoArtwork Cyrel Digital Imager (CDI) with advanced screening technologies to produce sharper and more accurate imaging.
The new version 2.0 with improved screening provides higher solid ink density (SID) for more vibrant colors on packaging. This result can be achieved while printing with standard flexo inks and anilox rollers.
HD Flexo offers near-offset quality across all flexo print applications in an easy to use product. With version 2.0, EskoArtwork further improves quality of the standard printing equipment and plates already in use by its customers. It remains an open industry standard system that operates with the customer’s existing CDI equipment, plates and working methods, completed with specifically tuned dots and without tying the customer to specific plates or other consumables.
EskoArtwork Flexo Business vice president Jurgen Andresen said EskoArtwork has strengthened HD Flexo’s position as the ‘open’ industry standard for high quality flexo, available for all flexo applications — labels, flexible packaging and corrugated — and supported by major plate manufacturers. These new capabilities further enable conversion of gravure and offset work to flexo. The enhanced process color gamut makes it possible to replace spot colors with process colors, thus reducing the number of print stations and making co-printing of designs possible.
HD Flexo 2.0 will be useful for flexible packaging and corrugated converters, and trade shops aiming to increase shelf impact for their brand owner customers. It will enable them to expand their business into the higher-quality segments of the print market.