Printing with Extended Colour Gamut

Printing with Digital Colour

Acme Graphics

Staff of 265 Reps / 9 DTP Operators / 3 Drivers / 5 Platemakers

Offices in Edenvale (Longmeadow) and Durban5000 Square Metres Plate Per Year

Why print with

Extended

Colour

Gamut???

Imagine• “Digital” Press printing at up to

400m/min.• 92% Wash-up Time Saving• 78% Setup Time Saving• 63% Less Start-up Waste• 0% Press Return Inks• No Ink Room

Save Time and Material

• 15-40% Ink SavingSave Ink

No Press Returned Ink

Save Time (continued)The “Tetra Pak” approach – Substitute spot colours with Process or

“Digital” Colour

“Any customer can have packaging printed in their brand colours so long as it requires no

more than 1 wash-up”Assembly Line Approach to Printing – Hauke Liefferink

It’s a hot topic!

No one

understands

what it is! We

have to rename

it!

We call it…Digital Colour• Print Buyers (your customers) struggle to understand “Extended

Colour Gamut”• They understand “Digital Printing” without Pantone or spot colours• It’s best to tell them you are printing with “Digital Colour” just like

an HP Indigo for instanceDigital Colour

No Spot Colours

Digital Colour – Colours are built DIGITALLY during PRE-PRESS

How Acme

has made

Digital Colour

commercially

viable

What makes it work commercially?

PATENTED Variation Proofing

What makes it work commercially?

PATENTED Visual Verification

8 colour press WITH Line Black

Line Black (also barcode etc.)

No Black! No Black!

C+M+Y+K+O+G+V+Line K = 9 colours?

FAIL?Can you print it? Can we proof it?

We ARE doing it commercially!

Over 1000 SKU’s

Flexo NEEDS

it to compete

with Digital,

Offset and

Gravure

Flexo matching Gravure Requires Digital Colour

Many Gravure “Designs” Don’t Allow for High Volume Aniloxes

Problem! High Volume AniloxesInks achieving target density on spot

colours do not allow screens to be printed above +-85lpi due to

insufficient pigment loading requiring high volume aniloxes

Other reasons

and benefits

Brand Owners are asking for it

2 Spot Colors CMY CMY + RB

Enhance Vibrancy

Reduce Change OversMulti Variant Printing / Brand Owner Signoff

How it works

Supply of Artwork

Supply artwork as per usual, CMYK & Spots

CMY

OGV or RGB

CMYOGV + Line Black (Logo)

Ink Sequencing

1. Line Black2. Cyan3. Magenta4. Yellow5. Red6. Green7. Blue8. White

Reverse

1. White2. Cyan3. Magenta4. Yellow5. Red6. Green7. Blue8. Line Black

Surface

• ISO 12647 CMYK

• Pantone and Spots (TVI)

• Digital Colour

We work with your EXISTING ink supplier

Then, we write the Recipe to achieve ISO standards, Digital Colour and Spot Colour Tone Values

Is it hard to

do?

Level of Difficulty?1. Compare Press Operator Target to Web Targets2. Check if you are within Light/Middle/Dark std.3. Print!!!

What does it

cost?

Turnkey• No Trial Costs• No Obligation• No Capital

Investment• Just use us for

your plates!

See for yourself…in your shop!

Free Digital Press @ 400m/min.