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News Release from: EskoArtwork | Subject: i-cut, Kongsberg i-XL
Edited by the Printingtalk Editorial
Team on 21 March 2005
Esko-Graphics Enters Sign Market With
Show Launch
At Sign UK (April 12-14) at Birmingham's NEC (UK), Esko-Graphics will announce its entry in to the sign, display and POP market.
At Sign UK (April 12-14) at Birmingham's NEC (UK), Esko-Graphics will announce its entry in to the sign, display and POP market The company will launch the i-cut vision control system and i-script workflow, developed by MGE (Mikkelsen Graphic Engineering) and integrated with Esko-Graphics' Kongsberg i-XL series of die cutting tables, which is claimed to allow die-less cutting contours to match printed images and improved overall productivity and quality
This article was originally published on Printingtalk on 14 Aug 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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The multi-purpose toolhead Multicut further enhances the cutting capability of the Kongsberg XL tables for package, sign, POP and display applications said Esko-Graphics.Together with two standard configurable tool stations that can be set up for cutting and creasing, it features a new milling spindle.
Targeted materials include plywood, acrylics, polycarbonates, Dibond, rigid PVC, wood, and high pressure laminates.
The i-cut vision system checks each graphic on each sheet for registration and for any dimensional changes, distortions or material variations like shrinkage or stretching.
With a technology called 'virtual grid', the i-cut software automatically fine tunes each cut-contour for perfect cut-to-print claimed the company.
Time and cost savings can be achieved since the combined system helps to reduce set-up time, material waste and overall production time, and to perform exact cost calculations.
In the company's opinion, next to the finishing at the end of the production process, great importance has to be given to the creation and design upstream, so, on its stand Esko-Graphics will demonstrate its Scope workflow, covering a wide range of functions, from job and product specification, through graphic and structural design and pre-production operations.
Esko's Deskpack will also be featured for packaging and display design, as it turns Adobe Illustrator seats in to fully-featured Backstage clients.
It brings the ability to import CAD layouts in to designs, to create dynamic barcodes, to view separations including a plate preview, to control step and repeat operations for labels and to view designs interactively in a realistic three dimensional presentation.
Fully completed files can now be sent directly to a Flexrip for output added the company.
Also on the stand will be ArtiosCAD 6.0 with its new design feature - 3D Designer - where an operator can start from a CAD drawing or 3D model of the object, import it in to ArtiosCAD and construct on-screen a three-dimensional package around the product, eliminating the complicated and iterative task of measuring and testing package or display concepts.
On show will be the JDF-enabled Backstage 2.0.
Hubert Scheir, Esko-Graphics' director of marketing EMEALA, commented: "We are very excited about this new digital die cutting solution, which adds an improved functionality to the Kongsberg tables and offers interesting new business opportunities to existing and new customers in the sign, display and POP market.
Sign applications are more and more produced by various digital presses as run lengths become smaller and lead times become shorter.
The MGE and Esko-Graphics system complements the production of signs, POP and displays with a unique solution that provides high productivity and high precision for the widest range of materials.".
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