Esko shows off integration developments

Esko, a Danahar company, has joined forces with other group subsidiaries to integrate its automation and collaboration solutions with X-Rite and Pantone colour technologies and AVT’s camera inspection solutions. The integrations were demonstrated during EskoWorld last week.

A digital link between Esko’s packaging prepress workflow Automation Engine, AVT press workflow, and inspection systems Helios and Argos provides data to automatically set-up a job for inspection on digital and conventional presses, as well as on rewinders. Geert De Proost, director solutions marketing at Esko, said: “Using this integration, we remove a task from the operator’s to-do list and guarantee a ‘right first time’ result. The impact is higher accuracy inspection, consistent usage and lower rejection rates. In addition, it simply creates 30 to 60 minutes more productive time per press shift. With the new bi-directional integration between X-Rite ColorCert Suite, which defines colour requirements and collects press run colour data to report on colour performance, and the AVT Spectralab in-line colour measurement device, job data is automatically sent to the spectro, which automatically sets up the job for inline colour measurement. During the run, the colour measurements are sent directly from AVT’s Spectralab to X-Rite’s ColorCert, which collects the data and builds a color scorecard, reporting on the colour quality performance of the print run. A digital link between Esko’s collaboration platform WebCenter, and X-Rite’s ColorCert Suite automatically populates colour-related specification fields for job creation. When the job runs on the printing press, score values return back to WebCenter to be stored and displayed centrally for true closed-loop colour control and reporting. The integrations will be commercially available by the autumn.