EskoArtwork reports 'successful' global user event

The EskoWorld 2010 worldwide conference, held from April 18-21, 2010 at the Marriott Tampa Waterside Hotel and Marina in Florida, USA, was ‘a great success’, according to customers attending the event. EskoWorld brought together customers and EskoArtwork industry partners to exchange ideas and product knowledge.

The event saw good growth from last year, with attendees coming from many different market segments: packaging and graphic arts companies such as converters, commercial printers, publishers, sign and display firms, to packaging designers and brand owners. Users also came from around the world, including Australia, Japan, China, India and South America.

‘EskoWorld was extremely well attended with nearly 10 percent growth and over 250 customers. Our objective was, as always, very simple: to listen to and inform our customers and provide a forum where they could intermingle with our staff and each other. The Partner Zone was very well received, offering users a great opportunity to interact with other vendors and learn how to get full value from EskoArtwork solutions. It was very successful,’ said Mark Quinlan, president of EskoArtwork North America. ‘In particular, people were excited about the new Automation Engine. It will provide significant value to, and take costs from, their businesses.’

EskoArtwork arranged for a broad spectrum of speakers with presenters from multiple brand owners as well as leading partners, such as Hewlett Packard and Bobst. Harry Epstein, VP innovation at HAVI Global Solutions, delivered the keynote. EskoWorld offered more than 75 different sessions covering a wide range of topics, including digital flexo; commercial printing pre-press; packaging pre-press; structural design and short run production; 3D design applications; brand management software; and packaging digital print.

EskoWorld’s Partner Zone was sponsored by a broad number of supporting packaging technologies, including those from DuPont, AICOMP Consulting, Bobst, Flint Group, HP, Dr. Lauterbach and Partner, Prism, Pantone, Dassault Systèmes, SunChemical and Strata.

‘EskoWorld 2010 was a very positive event. We wanted technical information, and that's exactly what we got,’ said Scott Collett, electronic pre-press technician at Prime Package & Label in St Louis, Missouri, USA. ‘We wanted to plan around EskoArtwork’s software updates so, for us, the product roadmaps were very helpful, as was the Software Lab. The HD Flexo and color management presentations were technically oriented and well explained. And the dinners and entertainment made it easier to network with others.’

EskoArtwork is already making plans for the next EskoWorld 2011, which will be held in the spring of 2011 (to be announced). 

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