Goss and Alwan partner for color quality

As a result of the cooperation, customers for the Goss Sunday Vpak series will benefit from a complete turnkey package including hardware, software, installation, training and ISO certification. Software provided will include on-press color matching, press calibration, and print proofing and verification, all of which are available for CMYK and extended gamut printing, spot color and HiFi color production. The intention is to establish a new benchmark for color quality in the packaging market.

Goss Sunday Vpak 500 and Vpak 3000 web offset press models for folding carton, flexible packaging, pre-print and label applications are available in web widths from 20.5in to 75in and print at speeds of up to 1,500f/min.

Mike D’Angelo, managing director of Goss International Americas, said Goss has recognized a pressing need for color consistency standards within the packaging sector since entering the market in 2012.

‘This is particularly critical when using special ink formulations and substrates that have been specified by brand owners, often with little regard for the technical challenges involved,’ D’Angelo said. ‘In response to this need, we have identified Alwan as the perfect fit for Goss, complementing our own product design expertise with their established ISO development credentials.’

Alwan Color Expertise founder and president Elie Khoury said: ‘Alwan Color Expertise has a long-term commitment to establishing industry standards. It has been a defining objective of our business since it was founded, and we select our partners for this undertaking very carefully.

‘Being inherently stable – even for webs as wide as 75in – Goss Vpak technology meets our criteria in every respect. Combining it with our software and workflow know-how will enable customers to provide packaging print of unbeatable quality. Vpak technology also delivers a uniquely cost-effective approach, offering a viable long-term solution for converters in tackling the trend towards shorter run lengths.

‘Alwan Color Expertise will help make this proposition even more powerful by ensuring the most efficient make-ready processes and, with it, low waste.’

‘This agreement is a win-win for us as suppliers, but yet more so for the labels and packaging market,’ concluded D’Angelo. ‘We’re especially energized by the opportunity to roll out the benefits of process color to the package printing market.

‘Using CMYK+ offers so much more production flexibility and agility for accommodating image changes and enabling fast make-readies, as well as being vastly more cost-effective. But packaging printers and converters need to be entirely confident that the quality will meet the demands of the brand managers. Our joint offering with Alwan can help deliver this.’

Pictured: Mike D’Angelo (left), managing director of Goss International Americas, and Elie Khoury, Alwan Color Expertise founder and president