digital colour - extended colour gamut in flexo print
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Printing with Extended Colour Gamut
Printing with Digital Colour
Acme Graphics
Staff of 265 Reps / 9 DTP Operators / 3 Drivers / 5 Platemakers
Offices in Edenvale (Longmeadow) and Durban5000 Square Metres Plate Per Year
Why print with
Extended
Colour
Gamut???
Imagine• “Digital” Press printing at up to
400m/min.• 92% Wash-up Time Saving• 78% Setup Time Saving• 63% Less Start-up Waste• 0% Press Return Inks• No Ink Room
Save Time and Material
• 15-40% Ink SavingSave Ink
No Press Returned Ink
Save Time (continued)The “Tetra Pak” approach – Substitute spot colours with Process or
“Digital” Colour
“Any customer can have packaging printed in their brand colours so long as it requires no
more than 1 wash-up”Assembly Line Approach to Printing – Hauke Liefferink
It’s a hot topic!
No one
understands
what it is! We
have to rename
it!
We call it…Digital Colour• Print Buyers (your customers) struggle to understand “Extended
Colour Gamut”• They understand “Digital Printing” without Pantone or spot colours• It’s best to tell them you are printing with “Digital Colour” just like
an HP Indigo for instanceDigital Colour
No Spot Colours
Digital Colour – Colours are built DIGITALLY during PRE-PRESS
How Acme
has made
Digital Colour
commercially
viable
What makes it work commercially?
PATENTED Variation Proofing
What makes it work commercially?
PATENTED Visual Verification
8 colour press WITH Line Black
Line Black (also barcode etc.)
No Black! No Black!
C+M+Y+K+O+G+V+Line K = 9 colours?
FAIL?Can you print it? Can we proof it?
We ARE doing it commercially!
Over 1000 SKU’s
Flexo NEEDS
it to compete
with Digital,
Offset and
Gravure
Flexo matching Gravure Requires Digital Colour
Many Gravure “Designs” Don’t Allow for High Volume Aniloxes
Problem! High Volume AniloxesInks achieving target density on spot
colours do not allow screens to be printed above +-85lpi due to
insufficient pigment loading requiring high volume aniloxes
Other reasons
and benefits
Brand Owners are asking for it
2 Spot Colors CMY CMY + RB
Enhance Vibrancy
Reduce Change OversMulti Variant Printing / Brand Owner Signoff
How it works
Supply of Artwork
Supply artwork as per usual, CMYK & Spots
CMY
OGV or RGB
CMYOGV + Line Black (Logo)
Ink Sequencing
1. Line Black2. Cyan3. Magenta4. Yellow5. Red6. Green7. Blue8. White
Reverse
1. White2. Cyan3. Magenta4. Yellow5. Red6. Green7. Blue8. Line Black
Surface
• ISO 12647 CMYK
• Pantone and Spots (TVI)
• Digital Colour
We work with your EXISTING ink supplier
Then, we write the Recipe to achieve ISO standards, Digital Colour and Spot Colour Tone Values
Is it hard to
do?
Level of Difficulty?1. Compare Press Operator Target to Web Targets2. Check if you are within Light/Middle/Dark std.3. Print!!!
What does it
cost?
Turnkey• No Trial Costs• No Obligation• No Capital
Investment• Just use us for
your plates!
See for yourself…in your shop!
Free Digital Press @ 400m/min.