100th Esko Digital Flexo Suite installed at Miller Graphics
Swedish group Miller Graphics, which has 14 production sites in Europe, has become the 100th company to install the Digital Flexo Suite from EskoArtwork at its production site in Beauvais, France. It has been installed with a Kongsberg XL44 cutting table, designed for cutting flexographic plates, and will lift the plant’s turnover from its current €5m level.
Miller specializes in image processing for packaging applications, and the new equipment will optimize its packaging prepress process for a variety of food and hygiene brands. ‘We use the Kongsberg cutting table for a variety of purposes,’ explained Pascal Monsieur, site manager at Miller Graphics France. ‘It allows us to plot plans on polyester substrates, and to cut plates – in the standard way or with a bevel – for mounting on mylars or carriers,’ he added.
The Digital Flexo Suite is powerful workflow automation software that enhances plate-making efficiency, and reduces plate wastage by up to 25%. The optimized plate and the cutting layout are simultaneously sent to the CDI and the Kongsberg XL table. Both the CDI imaging file and the Kongsberg cutting file carry identical names and registration marks. These are automatically imaged on the flexo plate, for later identification, registration and cutting.
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