Suite 12 print production and management software Suite 12 is a software solution for packaging, label, display and publishing professionals. Suite 12 is scalable, easy-to-use and easy-to-learn. It is a complete solution for design, prepress and production. Suite 12 integrates with your business systems to get the best results in a complete end-to-end production process. Suite 12 software covers: Structural packaging design and manufacturing 3D design, including store simulation Automatic Artwork creation Packaging prepress Step & Repeat and imposition Workflow automation Color management RIP, screening and output control Packaging approval and copy management Packaging project management Asset management
Suite 12: add value, improve efficiency and reduce cost Suite 12 design, prepress, workflow and management tools cover the widest possible range of professional applications for the packaging, labels and display manufacturing industries. A packaging buyer doesn t merely consider an individual label or box. He considers all components that express a brand message via product packaging. And since packaging is the most important carrier of the brand message, the packaging buyer needs tools to manage the process. Suite 12 supports this integrated approach with tools that create added value, improve efficiency and drive cost out of the entire process. With Suite 12, users widen and deepen their impact, grip and control over the packaging supply chain. Esko customers will find their investments well protected. Suite 12 brings significant new capabilities in prepress editing, 3D visualization, quality assurance, color management and workflow automation without the need to reengineer operational workflows or re-train operators. Steps in the packaging production process Design: integrated graphical packaging design Prepress: Prepare design for volume production Sheet layout: Create the optimal layout of the print sheet Design Prepress Sheet Layout Plate Making Idea: Brand Manager has identified the need for packaging (a new product, an update, a promotion ) Idea Structure: Develop physical structure concepts Mockup Structure Mock-up: Create digital visualizations of the packaged product Proofing Proofing: Confirm correct color reproduction Diecut Tools Die-cut tools: Prepare the tools to cut out the package after printing Sample Making Sample making: Create physical representations of a packaged product Automation
For the brand owner the term packaging refers to more than just a single label or a box design. Packaging is the overall embodiment of the brand and includes every single component of the complete brand experience. Filler Print Finish Logistics Retail Packer Print: Print text and graphics on packaging Finish: Apply finishing to individual packages: embossing, cutting, creasing, folding Fulfillment: Fill package with product Logistics: Transport packaged product to store Retail: Place on store shelf ready for sale System Integration Project Management & Collaboration
Design packaging & displays Design packaging in 3D Packaging and display development starts with structural design. Whether you create folding carton boxes, corrugated containers, shelf ready packaging,bags or pouches; Esko supplies the world s leading structural design and manufacturing tools. These tools offer creativity and productivity for the most demanding production environments. The global standard in structural packaging design Fast packaging design in Adobe Illustrator Why work in a flat world if packaging isn t? Studio is a unique set of easy tools for 3D packaging design. Studio is fast and easy, because it integrates with the tools you already use, like Adobe Illustrator. Studio will help you produce better artwork. Whether you are a designer trying out different ideas, or a pre-press operator checking a back-match, with Studio you are virtually holding the pack in your hands. ArtiosCAD comes with dedicated tools specifically designed for packaging professionals for whom ArtiosCAD is a rich toolbox for structural design, product development, virtual prototyping and manufacturing. ArtiosCAD increases productivity throughout your company. ArtiosCAD is the ideal product for all corrugated, folding carton and POP display designers. ArtiosCAD ArtiosCAD Enterprise Studio Studio Designer ArtiosCAD offers design and drafting tools for the structural design of paperboard packaging and displays. Complete 3D integration allows for quick prototyping of designs and presentations, eliminating communication errors and reducing design review cycles. Create plate layouts and die cuts, ArtiosCAD is optimized for the production equipment used in manufacturing. brings all your production files, design and material libraries to a private cloud. Conveniently and securely accessible over the internet, ArtiosCAD Enterprise connects all stakeholders, internally as well as externally, to one unique set of production files. That means no more duplication of data, no more searching for that specific design, no more voids in the materials. Studio is a collection of tools that adds the 3rd dimension and holistic approach to your packaging design. Studio Designer illustrates Esko s holistic vision on packaging prepress: rather than merely showing the individual items of a packaging project, each component can be previewed in 3D either separately or in context. This enables faster, more efficient and more accurate packaging design. And it happens all inside Adobe Illustrator.
Esko Store Visualiser places 3D packaging designs on virtual shelves. Discover how your designs will work in an interactive and dynamic 3D retail environment. Studio Toolkit Studio Toolkit adds easy-touse structural design tools to Adobe Illustrator. Studio Toolkit helps you create basic folding carton and corrugated box designs, primary containers (bottles, cans, jars ) with labels and all flexible packaging designs including shrink sleeves. These CAD structures provide an instantaneous 3D virtual mockup of graphics and structure. Studio Visualizer Studio Visualiser adds the finishing touch. Its patented dynamic print visualization previews a wide range of substrates, printing and finishing effects in real-time. With Visualizer you can share the results as images or movies. Studio Store Visualizer Studio Store Visualiser creates a genuine and hyper-realistic moment of truth experience by putting your packaging design in a dynamic virtual retail environment.
Advanced packaging prepress Eliminate production errors It s wrong! That might very well be the most hated phrase after something has already been produced. Not only is it an enormous waste of time, it may very well be a huge waste of money too. There are ways to better control the risk of production errors. Prepress functionality dedicated to packaging Streamline your workflow You can further add automation and integration to your prepress. It drives cost out of packaging prepress and it reduces cycle times. Workflows are defined in a very intuitive and user-friendly way. The Automation Engine is at the heart of your prepress workflow, organizing projects and data assets and automating repetitive and mundane tasks. Packaging prepress professionals don t like to take chances: they opt for dedicated prepress editors ArtPro and PackEdge, or they use DeskPack, the collection of packaging prepress plugins for Adobe Illustrator. Recognized and endorsed by industry professionals for their performance, all editors share the same packagingrich functionality like a barcode editor, trapping software, 3D previewing, step and repeat and SmartMarks. ArtPro and PackEdge ArtPro (MAC) and PackEdge (PC) are editors for preproduction of labels and packaging. They come with dedicated tools to tackle your major prepress pain points (e.g. trapping, distortion, screening, barcodes, step and repeat...). ArtPro and PackEdge offer everything you need to prepare packaging designs for volume reproduction in a wide array of printing technologies (digital, offset, flexo, gravure, silk screen...). DeskPack Deskpack is a collection professional pre-production plugins for Adobe Illustrator CS and Adobe Photoshop CS. Esko has taken the best of its packaging prepress technologies and put them inside the world s most popular design tools. Working in your favorite design applications, DeskPack significantly reduces errors, lead-time and cost. DeskPack turns Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop into a fullfledged packaging workstation.
Courtesy of Inci.Flex Design studios, tradeshops and converters around the world rely on Esko prepress tools for the make ready of packaging and labels. Moire detection using the flexo plate and print view Add and edit dynamic barcode Automatic and interactive trapping on Mac, PC and in Adobe Illustrator
Packaging approval & copy management Control your production flow In many companies, drafts and changes of designs are emailed back and forth between product management, marketing, packaging development and prepress until the final artwork is agreed. The opportunities for errors to be introduced are rife. And what s more, it s all extremely time consuming. Use one central point for all assets It makes more sense to streamline this facet of the process. All this data can be shared online, in one dedicated, centralized spot. All stakeholders, including product managers, packaging buyers, designers, tradeshops and converters can get online access to the same elements enabling the highest levels of collaboration. A smooth workflow tackles growing complexity A smooth automated workflow is a powerful ally as it irons out all inefficiencies. Automation of all the workflow steps without human intervention frees up your expert resources for more value-added tasks. A totally integrated workflow (connected to your business systems) drives cost out of the packaging process and it reduces cycle times. Get rid of tedious and error-prone manual copy-past workflows. Automated artwork creation and copy management eliminates errors and speeds up the process. Managing content for size, flavor and language variants becomes a breeze. Automation Engine Automation Engine sets a new standard for packaging prepress workflow automation. It is a modular workflow server with dynamic workflows that are easy to set up and operate. Automation Engine can be fully integrated with any business system. Automation Engine ensures increased efficiency and throughput and saves time and money. It is, by all standards, an exceptional answer to the daily challenges of print professionals who need to increase quality, reduce errors and drive cost out of the process. Automation Engine is a scalable yet easy to use client-server architecture serving any type of client application. Production milestones provide feedback to your MIS or ERP system. WebCenter WebCenter is a powerful online Packaging Management platform to manage your business process, approval cycles and digital assets 24/7. This secure, internet-based, collaboration platform lets users manage projects, review, annotate and approve documents. WebCenter acts as a flexible centralized, secure digital warehouse for all of a brand s packaging assets, including: technical key lines, artwork, graphics, logos, images and other packaging elements. Web-based storage brings greater efficiency and better asset reusability. WebCenter streamlines and helps control the complexities of packaging brand execution. Ultimately the managed approval process with digital signatures accelerates time to market and facilitates working between diverse global suppliers. WebCenter acts also as a gateway to other 3rd party systems (PLM, DAM, ERP, MIS).
Esko s packaging workflow and management tools are accessible 24/7, even on mobile devices. Dynamic Content Engine The Dynamic Content Engine makes copy management easier. A single packaging design quickly evolves into many versions. One product may become available in several variants or brand extensions and those variants all have localized versions for a global market. Dynamic Content Engine is an online solution that reduces time to market via a streamlined text management process across content creation and design.
Color management & output Get brilliant results, time and time again Everyone in the packaging supply chain has a stake in getting color right the first time. Successful color management doesn t just happen in the moment right before going to print. The key to effective color management is communication. Accurate color information needs to be present throughout the whole production process. From the moment the brand owner decides on a color, over the designer s first creations, all the way through to the press: a glitch-free color communication evens the path to success. Proofing made easy Esko s proofing solution drives a huge range of popular inkjet devices. It assures a match between press and proof. FlexProof/E contains a wealth of advanced features such as dot proofing, matching dot gain of the press (to simulate the flexo highlight break) and proofing of expanded gamut multicolor process jobs. Consistent high quality output You want your RIP to deliver fast, consistent and high quality output. Esko s output solution offers uncompromised compatibility with open industry standards. It is workflow and device independent. It drives current and future devices alike and offers an unmatched growth path into different market segments. State of the art screening Esko output solutions come with dedicated state of the art screening for flexo and offset. The RIP works with HD Flexo (flexography), Concentric Screening (offset lithography) and unscreened TIFF output to gravure cylinder engravers. Color Engine Equinox Imaging Engine Screening Color Engine is a centralized color management server and database with patented spectral profile technology. It offers unique and patented capabilities for spot color handling, providing integrated and consistent color management from design to final print. Equinox is a total solution for the implementation of Multi Color Printing and Extended Gamut Printing in packaging and commercial print. Esko s patented overprint model provides a unique approach to multi-ink profile support. Imaging Engine is the RIP that provides consistent, high performance, top quality output across all types of imaging and print devices, both conventional and digital. Esko offers the widest range of halftone screening technologies, each optimized for specific print processes. Concentric Screening, for example, is a revolutionary and proven halftone dot technology for offset printing. HD Flexo and Full HD Flexo screening are the new standards for flexographic printing.
Esko s unique patented color technology guarantees brand managers of accurate, consistent and repeatable brand color reproduction on every substrate, with every print technology. FlexProof/E Workflow independent proofing solution. FlexProof is an ICC compatible solution for high quality and consistent digital proofing. Extra output tools Suite 12 comes with additional tools for bitmap viewing (Bitmap Viewer) bitmap editing (FlexoPerfection) and dot gain control (PressSync). PantoneLIVE With PantoneLIVE (by X-Rite Pantone), the digital brand color lives in a secure, centralized cloud where it s accessible to brand owners, designers, production people, anyone and everyone in the supply chain, anywhere around the globe. Suite 12 fully supports PantoneLIVE. Color Engine accesses the PantoneLIVE database and downloads the selected spectral spot color profiles which are then used throughout the entire workflow.
Suite 12 gives you more Suite 12 is more than the sum of its different components. Esko s holistic end-toend approach gives you the summum of productivity efficiency, and a growth path for the future. Packaging management. With WebCenter, Suite 12 offers a performant web-based packaging management system. It is the core packaging workflow tool for collaboration, approval, project management, process management, asset management and reporting. A holistic approach to packaging design and prepress. Suite 12 structural design editors ArtiosCAD and Studio; and the prepress editors ArtPro, PackEdge, DeskPack are the operators instruments to create and prepare artwork and designs. Intuitive 3D tools and easy interaction with automated production workflows increase quality and productivity. Integrated color management. With support for PantoneLIVE, and equipped with patented overprint modeling technology, Suite 12 excels in spot color support for packaging and label workflows. One of a kind workflow automation. Automation Engine 12 is an easy to learn, easy to use and easy to maintain workflow that completes the efforts of Esko integrating all BackStage, Nexus Processor and Odystar functionality. With scripting support built-in, the creation of job variants in Adobe Illustrator is automated. Set up and manage dynamic workflows for both SME-type operations and larger multi-site facilities. High quality output drives the business. With state of the art imaging and screening technology, Suite 12 redefines the boundaries for digital, flexo, offset and gravure print quality Commercial print users, continue to take advantage of powerful workflow automation tools. Suite 12 comes integrated with an online approval platform, project management tools and MIS integration. All former Nexus and Odystar functionality is integrated in a single Automation Engine platform, completed with an open JDF integration to any 3rd party imposition software. Your business really depends on reliable customer services. Esko is committed to providing outstanding support during pre-installation, installation, integration and production. Furthermore, we offer financing tailored to your needs. www.esko.com/suite12 OCT12 G2558469_US 2012 Esko. All rights reserved. All specifications are subject to alteration. www.esko.com