Flint and Dynagraph to open sheet-fed spot color mixing facility in Dubai

This facility features a Vale Tech HP35 ink dispenser, which accurately measures out each base color according to pre-determined recipes. A Color-Mix Jet Mixer then blends those dispensed base colors and Teknimek proofers help ensure the shade is correct. X-Rite Spectrophotometers accurately measure the original color shade to help specify the correct ink formula to program the Vale Tech computer. As part of the partnership agreement, Flint Group technicians will support Dynagraph through the installation and start-up phase, to provide training, guidance and advice. In addition to this, Dynagraph will be linked to Flint Group’s Global Colour Centre in Poland, which provides a web-based automated color matching option. The system consists of a dedicated, managed internet production server running X-Rite Ink Formulation software in which colorant files for widely used ink systems and substrates have been installed. It is designed to reduce costs and, at the same time, improve the efficiency and accuracy of color matching done at remote locations such as Flint Group authorized distributor partners and end users.

Working alongside Dynagraph on this spot color mixing project in the Middle East is a key building block of Flint Group’s service strategy, focusing on creating a consistent, high quality and reliable partnership with end user customers globally. This is especially important to packaging printers working with large brand owners who must be able to faithfully reproduce a wide variety of customers’ house colors, regardless of substrate or production deadlines.

‘We realized some time ago that the Middle East region was in need of a high-quality spot color mixing service,’ commented Steven Haig, Flint Group sheet-fed sales director for the region. ‘So, we began discussions with Dynagraph at the beginning of 2015, and it’s very pleasing to now see this project finally come to fruition.’

Dynagraph is the oldest operating reseller of printing equipment, supplies and services in the Middle East, and has been a distributor of sheet-fed and web offset inks for Flint Group in the region for nine years.

Antoine El Kara, Dynagraph managing director, is very enthusiastic about this latest strengthening of the partnership with Flint Group, and said: ‘We take great pride in the inauguration, with Flint Group, of the first offset ink mixing shop in the Middle East region.

‘This service answers a growing demand for special colors with short delivery times and has a yearly production capacity of around 150-200 tonnes. The reason for the company’s longevity and success lies in our proximity to the market, where we maintain an impressive and much envied sales, service and logistic network of subsidiaries and branch offices.

‘This new venture into sheet-fed spot color production only enhances our product range, technical capabilities and market footprint.’

‘We have every confidence in Antoine and the team’s ability to deliver the highest quality mixes to printers across the Middle East, time after time,’ added Haig.