Esko Focuses on Complete Design to Print-to-Cut Workflows at the 2015 SGIA Expo

At booth #2231, Esko will demonstrate the importance of a complete workflow for wide format applications during the 2015 SGIA Expo (Atlanta, November 4-6). Focusing on Esko i-cut Suite, Automation Engine and ArtiosCAD, the company will show visitors to the booth the importance of workflow software to the quality and efficiency on digital graphic production. The company will also operate and demonstrate Kongsberg tables, showing how they are integrated into a workflow to digitally finish materials from a wide format digital press. "Esko looks forward to impressing visitors at the 2015 SGIA Expo. We now offer a complete, automated workflow of design, pre-press and cutting solutions for wide format print providers," explains Jon Giardina, President, Esko Americas. "We will demonstrate how to provide consistency and speed to the entire process — two very important deliverables to print buyers." Also at the Expo, on Wednesday, November 4, from 11:30am to 12:30pm in room B216, Tyler Thompson, Esko Application Engineer, will offer a presentation, "The Importance of an Automated Workflow to the Print Provider's Profitability and Success." This presentation will focus on the specific advantages of workflow automation and the considerations a print provider must make before implementing a system. Esko celebrates 50 years of Kongsberg digital finishing excellence This year marks the 50th anniversary of Esko Kongsberg, a manufacturer of digital finishing systems with many thousands of installations around the globe. "Digital finishing is a vital part of Esko's solutions portfolio, and Esko Kongsberg is key to our future success, and that of our customers," says Giardina. "Fifty years of constant innovation have provided us with a strong reputation and foundation. We have excellent technology and skills to help our customers take full advantage of the opportunities digital finishing offers for signs and displays." At the Expo, Esko will demonstrate the Kongsberg C64 model, working with 126-inch wide x 126-inch long materials to accommodate today's large format printing sizes. Connected to the Kongsberg C64 will be a new take-up unit. Esko introduces this prototype of a motorized system installed at the end of a conveyor feed and winds up kiss-cut adhesive vinyl or waste material from roll-based semi-automated production for simple disposal. The take up unit can be used with any Esko Kongsberg XN, i-XL, XP or C table equipped with a conveyor feed. Included is an integrated basket for finished materials. Also on display will be the Kongsberg XN24, Esko's versatile, mid-range digital finishing device, able to work with just about any substrate, from thin flexibles, to foam, to fluted materials, to rigid boards. It can be easily configured for the widest range of applications: from kiss cutting to heavy-duty milling. Most important, the Kongsberg XN can be equipped with a very powerful, optional 3kW, water-cooled milling spindle, the MultiCUT- High Power, offering up to three times greater milling productivity. Attached to the Kongsberg XN will be a new, stand-alone collector basket, catching finished goods (flexible or rigid materials as large as 8-inch x 8-inch) off the conveyor belt. This stand-alone unit can be used with any Kongsberg XN, i-XL, XP or C tables equipped with conveyor feed. The unit is equipped with wheels that may be locked when the unit is in position. One side of the basket edge is detachable so it can be emptied easily.