Bobst hosts open house at new Flexo Center of Excellence
The Competence Center at Bobst Bielefeld's has been extended to include a prepress room, which means it is now a fully comprehensive Heart of Excellence for the flexo process, specifically for Extended Color Gamut (ECG) for wide-web CI flexo presses. The Middle benefits from an 'open-partnership organisation, meaning all of BOBST's valued industry partners are nowadays, ensuring the integration of all the elements that combine to make a flawless end-to-finish process.
"Bobst Bielefeld is now the ultimate Eye of Excellence," said Mark McInulty, managing managing director, Bobst Bielefeld. "It provides an invaluable central facility for testing and continuous development of the ECG process for BOBST and manufacture suppliers in our open up-partnership organization. The Center helps our CI flexo printing customers to maximize the advantages derived from the implementation of the ECG process to the fullest."
The use of ECG is growing steadily. The process uses three additional ink colors – orange, green and violet (OGV) – on top of the conventional colors of cyan, magenta, yellow, and blackness (CMYK), enabling a lucifer with 90%+ of the Pantone book, compared with approximately 60% previously. For a converter, its adoption means many sizable economies of fourth dimension and cost: no more changes of inks and resulting washing of print decks, no need for a huge ink inventory for storing spot inks, no time wasted in ink mixing and a guarantee of color consistency for jobs that are run a long time autonomously or in dissimilar parts of the world.
BOBST equipment shown at the Open up House included VISION CI, the Digital Inspection Tabular array, and Connected Services.
Partnerships for the perfect process
Open up House visitors experienced the unabridged flexo procedure from file to the printed reel by talking to the diverse BOBST partners at different stations almost different topics, starting from the prepress facility that houses latest generation equipment shown live at the effect. U. Günther Prepress illustrated its capabilities in packaging design-to-print process with its connected services and cost reducing solutions, delivering optimized functioning for an efficient design-to-ECG print process. Miraclon houses a KODAK FLEXCEL NX Wide 4260 System for production of KODAK FLEXCEL NXH Plates in the eye. Miraclon helps to meet the unique challenges of ECG printing with patented plate technologies that enable ink transfer to be controlled and optimized for a defined process print status. It brings to the ECG project of press and plate harmonization, more than a decade of experience working with printers and prepress specialists globally to bulldoze greater adoption of process press for flexo. Glunz & Jensen houses a Flex-i-Pro 470 plate-making machine, along with the hot air dryer Concept 401D and the exposure unit of measurement 401 ECLF for large flexographic plates 1200 x 1530 mm. Glunz & Jensen brings to the project its 45 years of experience in innovative, high-quality plate making solutions for all plate processing requirements. ESKO houses an Esko XPS Crystal 4835 exposure unit, a Kongsberg X20 cutting tabular array and the consummate pre-press software required to produce ECG print ready files. Together with BOBST, Esko puts the spotlight on the value created by their partnership, showing attendees on how they can drive their own business organisation forward on the journey of digital transformation, be information technology in client communication, prepress editing, workflow automation, color direction or business integration.
Other partners illustrated their technologies and knowledge inside the framework of the harmonization of all the elements that hold to achieving the best and most efficient results with ECG printing. Rossini's contribution to the ECG project are Starcoat Lite sleeves, which offer exceptional dimensional stability and accuracy over time, and Fastbridge adapters, which offer superior absorption of vibration whilst allowing considerably faster print speeds. Lohmann presented the DuploFLEX5 range of plate mounting tape highlighting how the complex engineering hidden in the "thinnest" tool for the flexographic printing process contributes to make ECG printing possible. Zecher explained that to produce a high quality anilox is cocky-evident, but optimizing and influencing the consistent and reproducible impress quality through the help of an anilox is a major differentiator. Daetwyler presented MDC-Gamutstar, the bract specifically designed for the ECG process, delivering loftier precision and extended blade life for long runs and multiple jobs. Flint Group enlightened attendees nigh the powerful possibilities of ECG printing as a game changer for flexible packaging in delivering greater adjustability, shorter lead times, higher quality and higher definition. Flintstone Group supports the ECG projection with its FlexiPrint solvent-based inks which were used in the print demonstration on the Skillful CI flexo printing. Follmann spoke about the toll-efficiency of h2o-based ink printing and their positive contribution to CO2-reduction. The unmarried-component solution of the brilliant ink arrangement, fast make-prepare times while ensuring color fastness, longer plates lifetime and a stable printing process also contribute to cost efficiency. Follmann inks were used in the impress demonstration on the VISION CI flexo press. Ten-Rite PANTONE'southward presentation focused on color consistency control in ECG printing and how its industry-leading technology solutions, designed to streamline the digital color workflow process, back up packaging converters in profiling their press to get the most accurate fingerprint information.
Presentations were followed past print demonstrations on the VISION CI and on the Good CI flexo presses equipped with all the latest technologies presented by the partners in the ECG open partnership project. Quality control of the impress samples was made on the Digital Inspection tabular array, while connected services were demonstrated live in the Bobst Bielefeld dedicated Training Center facility.
"Every unmarried partner we work with brings and so much to the table in terms of innovation and optimizing the flexo procedure," said McInulty. "The Open House is actually the perfect instance of seamless collaboration in action – many companies coming together to combine their expertise and resource to create an optimized experience for our customers. Nosotros are delighted to work with all of our partners and to welcome them to the Center of Excellence."
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