Equinox: Expanded range solution for Flexo presses

Expanded gamut printing offers the equivalent of spot color printing, with no production overhead.

Previous expanded gamut printing technologies did not attract large-scale attention in the label and packaging sector because print professionals lacked confidence in those technologies.
Esko's Equinox is increasing its penetration of this market worldwide, with rapid customer adoption for both offset and flexo printing.

One supplier already offers expanded gamut printing technology designed specifically to meet the needs of the packaging and label printing industry.

Esko's Equinox is increasing its penetration of this market worldwide, with rapid customer adoption for both offset and flexo printing.

Developed by packaging prepress specialists to deliver exactly what the packaging industry needs, Equinox is based on innovative color technology to reproduce a wider range of brand color tones using five, six or seven inks while maintaining color stability on press.
With Equinox, Esko has the expanded gamut color solution that delivers print results to meet even the toughest demands.

The advantages of expanded gamut printing
Esko's Equinox offers several outstanding advantages for flexo and offset printers.
Compared to conventional spot color printing, Equinox is a route to high quality printing with a significant reduction in production costs.
-- Reduction in non-productive press downtime
-- Reduced press wash-ups
-- Increased press room productivity
-- Reduced ink stock

For maximum benefits in expanded gamut printing, Equinox integrates directly with Esko's design and prepress tools.

We have reduced the number of daily machine changes by 20%. We have also reduced set-up times by 20 to 40 %. We now expect to increase our turnover by 10% within a year."
Cédric Ladroue,
Managing Director
of Statim France

It's a great innovation to be able to print PANTONE colors with only seven inks. Thanks to Equinox, we can now offer higher quality and more saleable print, with less color differentiation. We have expanded our color space and regularly use extended gamut printing. We are also saving an average of 25% on inks."
Evgeny Lungin, Head of Prepress at Uniflex,operating in Belarus Uniflex is a specialist flexo printer for packaging and self-adhesive labels.