Esko partners with Comexi to boost color and digital flexo expertise

Esko is collaborating with the Manel Xifra Boada Technological Centre to train and certify Comexi staff to help them transition from a press sale to a solutions sale that provides customers with a broader set of products, services, knowledge, training and support. It is hope this will lead to higher customer satisfaction, successful installations and fast production start-up as request by converters.

The Manel Xifra Boada Technological Centre advises converters worldwide on flexographic printing and pre-press, thereby developing a work methodology aimed at converters in order to optimize print quality and color adjustment efficiently during job changeovers. The certification program on Esko FlexProof Proofing and Esko Equinox Extended Gamut Printing reinforces the knowledge of technicians and validates them as consultants in the use of both pieces of software during the machine’s characterization process.

It has also introduced CingularMatch I. Also known as ColorFlex, this optional product developed by Comexi is offered to converters in order to achieve stabilization of color parameters from the very beginning of the process. This service is available with the purchase of a flexographic machine or in already installed equipment. CingularMatch I includes a technical color seminar, a training and guidance program for flexo and color standardization and a color excellence bundle that will be delivered with each Comexi press and training.

The advantages the CingularMatch I system to converters are described as: greater reliability during color testing, efficiency of the four-color adjustment, guarantee of the repeatability of jobs, color settling times minimization during job changeover and process standardization.

‘This partnership with Esko and the resulting ColorFlex bundle is a critical element of our growth strategy and helps us to accompany customers since the beginning of the process,’ said David Centelles, corporate marketing and Manel Xifra Boada Technological Centre director at Comexi.

Francoise Coudert, a solutions architect at Esko, said: ‘We are pleased to be consulting and guiding Comexi in this effort. We have already certified two key Comexi team members in FlexProof/E and Color Engine, and they have also received full training in all Equinox modules. This gives them the in-depth knowledge required to advice and support customer implementations and to establish and help customers achieve benchmarks.

‘We are proud to have Comexi as press manufacturer partner who is qualified to help customers achieve the benefits of the digital printing process as it relates to conventional flexo presses. This includes delivery of high quality multicolor and extended gamut (fixed color palette) printing, reducing press downtime and the cost of inks, and increasing efficiency using Comexi flexographic presses.’