Oris Packaging Innovations and Esko sign strategic deal

The relationship sees both suppliers collaborate to enable users to have access to Esko’s Color Engine database of spot colour ink profiles directly from the Oris Flex Pack // Web application.

Oris Flex Pack // Web is a cost-effective turnkey system for any contract-quality packaging proofing and mock-up production. The color management software which, combined with a specially designed custom interface for Roland VersaCAMM VS series printers, delivers production flexibility for halftone and continuous tone proofing. All printer features, such as multi-pass and print-and-cut, are supported, and Pantone color libraries included, to enable proofing or special colors, with the possibility of defining custom colors.

Its main benefits are a full gamut inkset comprising reformulated CMYK with orange and green, custom-developed by CGS, complimented by white and metallic silver, giving the ability to achieve 98 percent of Pantone PMS colors including metallic, an eco-solvent inkset and the opportunity to choose a wide range of high quality packaging media, including shrink film and Oris Transfer Film, which allows proofs and mock-ups to be produced on nearly any original stock.

The Oris Flex Pack // Web software also offers integrated soft proofing, proof certification and halftone support with any kind of 1-bit file format. Also available is a connection to the Esko Color Engine spot colour database.

Oris CxF Toolbox creates an ISO 17972-4 compliant CxF or CxF/X-4 from a measurement file, including spectral data. It delivers a file that allows the printer to define ingredients and tolerances, data for ink formulation and pre-qualification of inks, proofing and process control systems. Oris CxF Designer, an Illustrator plug-in imports CxF data containing brand owner's specific brand colours or libraries into the Adobe design software colour pallet. It then embeds spectral data, tints ramps and opacity information to final PDF/X files in an open file format.

Oris CxF Toolbox and Oris CxF Designer utilize the new ISO standards and an open format the entire supply chain can utilize.

The partners will be displaying their systems at Packaging Innovations at the Business Design Centre in London on September 30 to October 1.

Steve Chappell, Oris Packaging Innovations managing director, said: ‘This perfect partnership brings innovative technologies together to serve a common customer base.

‘Customers can now talk to either us or Esko to find a solution that best fits their business demands of today while also gaining insight on how to address challenges they are likely to face in the future.’

Judd Perring, director at Oris Packaging Innovations, said: ‘We are delighted to present these tools, which provide all the information required to improve quality, reduce costly errors and improve customer satisfaction, to a wider audience.’

Paul Bates, regional business manager for north-west Europe at Esko, added: ‘These solutions help companies involved in producing high quality for major brands worldwide ensure color is more consistent and predictable which in turn saves time and money.’