04.08.16
Flexografix, a premedia trade shop based in Carol Stream, IL, USA, has installed Esko Full HD Flexo to offer exceptional, high-quality plates and to differentiate itself from local competitors.
In 2003, Ken Pavett acquired Flexografix, and the rest, as the saying goes, “is history.” Pavett quickly retooled the company, developing a highly skilled staff, and implementing advanced technology to ensure the company goals of providing stronger value, impeccable quality and better service could be met – for printers or brand owners. The imperative has worked: since Pavett took over as CEO and president, sales revenues have increased considerably. Esko has been at Pavett’s side almost from the beginning, helping Flexografix realize its mission of delivering prepress solutions that increase customers’ profitability. “Our customers love that they can put our plates on press, and they consistently meet the expectations of the project with less effort. We engineer color separations and plates that are as easy as possible to print and match our proofs while protecting the designer’s original intent,” says Pavett.
The entire Flexografix flexo platemaking workflow, from prepress to the finished plates, is provided by Esko tools – editing and workflow automation – which makes it so productive for them. This includes an Esko Automation Engine workflow server engine to automate prepress administrative tasks, DeskPack plug-ins for Adobe Illustrator, and PackEdge, a robust pre-production editor. They have also recently installed a Kongsberg XL24 finishing table as part of a Digital Flexo Suite solution.
Flexografix’s customers were early to realize the quality benefits from the company’s 2002 investment in Esko direct-to-plate technology. In 2011, they added a second Esko CDI imager, an Esko CDI 4260. They were using HD Flexo, particularly for higher quality narrow web printing customers to help them fade vignettes or drop shadows to zero. One customer comments, “I always had a lot of trouble with registration on type and smaller areas that required tight register. The plates that I received from Flexografix gave us the results that we were looking for on the very high end print projects we had to produce.”
“We received great support from Esko. The Esko Flexo Implementation and Quality (FIQ) team gave us a lot of attention,” notes Pavett. “We had high expectations for the performance of the technology, and Esko helped deliver on those expectations. They also gave us some advanced techniques to further improve the technology. They went above and beyond to make it successful from an application standpoint. We had some of the best minds in the business – five people, from Esko, Agfa/Pitman and DuPont, to focus on how to optimize the technology with the plate to get the most out of it.”
In 2003, Ken Pavett acquired Flexografix, and the rest, as the saying goes, “is history.” Pavett quickly retooled the company, developing a highly skilled staff, and implementing advanced technology to ensure the company goals of providing stronger value, impeccable quality and better service could be met – for printers or brand owners. The imperative has worked: since Pavett took over as CEO and president, sales revenues have increased considerably. Esko has been at Pavett’s side almost from the beginning, helping Flexografix realize its mission of delivering prepress solutions that increase customers’ profitability. “Our customers love that they can put our plates on press, and they consistently meet the expectations of the project with less effort. We engineer color separations and plates that are as easy as possible to print and match our proofs while protecting the designer’s original intent,” says Pavett.
The entire Flexografix flexo platemaking workflow, from prepress to the finished plates, is provided by Esko tools – editing and workflow automation – which makes it so productive for them. This includes an Esko Automation Engine workflow server engine to automate prepress administrative tasks, DeskPack plug-ins for Adobe Illustrator, and PackEdge, a robust pre-production editor. They have also recently installed a Kongsberg XL24 finishing table as part of a Digital Flexo Suite solution.
Flexografix’s customers were early to realize the quality benefits from the company’s 2002 investment in Esko direct-to-plate technology. In 2011, they added a second Esko CDI imager, an Esko CDI 4260. They were using HD Flexo, particularly for higher quality narrow web printing customers to help them fade vignettes or drop shadows to zero. One customer comments, “I always had a lot of trouble with registration on type and smaller areas that required tight register. The plates that I received from Flexografix gave us the results that we were looking for on the very high end print projects we had to produce.”
“We received great support from Esko. The Esko Flexo Implementation and Quality (FIQ) team gave us a lot of attention,” notes Pavett. “We had high expectations for the performance of the technology, and Esko helped deliver on those expectations. They also gave us some advanced techniques to further improve the technology. They went above and beyond to make it successful from an application standpoint. We had some of the best minds in the business – five people, from Esko, Agfa/Pitman and DuPont, to focus on how to optimize the technology with the plate to get the most out of it.”