Printed Pack Prototypes In Fraction Of Normal Time

Pakready is claimed to offer designers the ability to produce complete packaging prototypes in a fraction of the time it usually takes to produce mock-ups.

The system is claimed to offer designers the ability to produce complete packaging prototypes in a fraction of the time it usually takes to produce mock-ups.

The Perfectproof product is built around design, printing and cutting tools in combination with a set of consumables.

Designers can create and import existing designs, or choose from a series of adaptable design templates.

The company said that once the design is created, it can be viewed as an animated 3-D object, giving a realistic impression of what the package will look like.

3-D objects can also be sent to customers for review and approval, saving time and cost before even a single piece of paper is printed or cut.

The final design is then printed on to an image transfer sheet, ready for transferring the design on to a chosen substrate.

To ensure a good match with the production model, colour management and image quality are handled by Perfectproof's Proofmaster colour engine.

The Pakready Heat Press will transfer the printed material on to any pre-coated Pakready board by applying heat and pressure, added Perfectproof.

The image can be transferred on to any kind of substrate, regardless of type and thickness and is ready for cutting.

To ensure accurate cutting, the Pakready cutter uses a pin-register system that aligns the printed material with the cutting head.

Cutting, creasing and blind embossing are said to take only a few seconds, preparing the material for folding and assembling.

Mark Verbist, general manager of Perfectroof Europe, said: "Today, packaging prototyping is either a tedious manual process, or extremely expensive.

With the introduction of Pakready we offer a completely automated production suite, from creation to cutting and trimming at an affordable price level." He continued: "Where even experienced designers will take between two and three hours to create a working prototype, because of the manual labour that is involved, today with Pakready they can focus again on their core businesses, without losing precious time making packaging prototypes." And he concluded: "With the introduction of Pakready we took another step in becoming a leader in driving ink-jet based systdems.

With our first steps in the banner and display market last year, we feel we are now ready to tackle the packaging market.

The synergy between our well-established Proofmaster software and the Pakready system will provide our customers with a distinctive competitive edge and the flexibility to drive a protoyping and proofing system from the same software platform.".

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