A partnership between Oris Packaging Innovations and Esko will give Oris Flex Pack // Web application users access to Esko’s Color Engine database of spot colour ink profiles.

The aim is to provide colour accuracy and integrity for even complex and demanding packaging environments.

‘This perfect partnership brings innovative technologies together to serve a common customer base,’ commented Steve Chappell, managing director. ‘Customers can now talk to either us or Esko to find a solution that best fits their business demands of today while also gaining insight on how to address challenges they are likely to face in the future.’ 

Paul Bates, regional business manager, North West Europe at Esko added, ‘These solutions help companies involved in producing high quality for major brands worldwide ensure colour is more consistent and predictable which in turn saves time and money.’

The Flex Pack // Web is a solution for any contract-quality packaging proofing and mock up production. The colour management software which, combined with a specially designed custom interface for Roland VersaCAMM VS series printers, delivers production flexibility for halftone and continuous tone proofi­ng.

All printer features, such as multi-pass and print-and-cut, are supported, and Pantone colour libraries included, to enable proofi­ng or special colours, with the possibility of de­fining custom colours.

Its main benefits are a full gamut inkset comprising re-formulated CMYK with orange and green, custom-developed by CGS, complimented by white and metallic silver, giving the ability to achieve 98% of Pantone PMS Colours. These include metallics, an ecosolvent inkset and the opportunity to choose a wide range of high quality packaging media, including shrink film and the ORIS Transfer Film, which allows to produce proofs and mock-ups on nearly any original stock. The software also offers integrated soft proofi­ng, proof certi­fication and halftone support with any kind of 1-bit file format. Also available is a connection to the Esko Color Engine spot colour database.

Oris CxF Toolbox creates an ISO 17972-4 compliant CxF or CxF/X-4 from a measurement file, including spectral data. It delivers a file that allows the printer to define ingredients and tolerances, data for ink formulation and pre-qualification of inks, proofing and process control systems.

Oris CxF Designer, an Illustrator plug-in imports CxF data containing brand owner’s specific brand colours or libraries into the Adobe design software colour pallet. It then embeds spectral data, tints ramps and opacity information to final PDF/X files in an open file format.