Advanced RIP, workflow and color management tools, powered by EskoArtwork®
- Increase daily production with streamlined prepress processes
- Match PANTONE® and spot colors with greater efficiency
- Enhance color consistency, repeatability and predictability
- Satisfy more customer demands with expanded color gamut
Leading prepress solutions for the label and packaging industries
Designed exclusively for HP Indigo by EskoArtwork, HP Indigo Label and Packaging solutions provide printers and converters with the most advanced tools in the industry for streamlining prepress processes. The combination of EskoArtwork’s leading workflow tools and the unmatched quality and efficiency of the HP Indigo digital presses sets a new standard in the label and packaging converting markets.
The joint solution of HP Indigo and EskoArtwork promises you end-to-end workflow optimization, with the uncompromising service quality of HP. With greater efficiency and ease, print providers can now increase the number of jobs produced per shift - without the expense of additional headcount. The solutions also deliver unsurpassed performance for achieving repeatable, predictable, and reliable color - from job to job, and press to press.
The family of HP Indigo label and packaging solutions includes the following:
HP Indigo Labels and Packaging Server powered by EskoArtwork
The HP Indigo Labels and Packaging Server powered by EskoArtwork is the ideal solution for driving multiple static short runs with unmatched ease and automation. Using a high performance RIP and hardware combination, plus the HP Indigo Labels and Packaging Connectivity Module, it’s engineered to drive as many as four presses: the HP Indigo ws4000, ws4050 and ws4500 digital presses.
As a robust central control system within your print shop, it supports ICC colors, integral Adobe PDF, Step & Repeat, advanced PANTONE color conversion tables and automated workflow through hotfolders and a job ticket.
The solution also enables future scalability to accommodate new color workflow tools and connectivity for EskoArtwork’s centralized workflow system.
Key features at-a-glance:
- Fast, consistent high quality RIP solution compatible with industry standards
- RIP outputs to JLYT file format and includes tools for job verification to reduce waste levels and error rates
- Supports the unique parameters of the HP Indigo press w4500 for spot color simulation, double printing layers according to need, repeat length calculations and press screening method selection
- Strong color management capabilities in support of ICC profiles, plus built-in profiles for CMYK and HP IndiChrome Plus
- HP Indigo Yours Truly Designer PPML connectivity
HP Indigo Labels and Packaging Color Kit powered by EskoArtwork
The ideal color management solution for 6- and 7-color presses, the HP Indigo Labels and Packaging Color Kit powered by EskoArtwork lets you match PANTONE and spot colors with much greater efficiency and cost-effectiveness. Expand your color gamut by mapping any seven colors installed on your HP Indigo press. You can also produce more short runs with an integrated solution that quickly matches colors to specific customer brand requirements with very little waste.
Key features at-a-glance:
- Defines color gamut conversion according to colors on the HP Indigo digital press, through all spectral color profiling
- Individually profiles and stores special colors in a database, resulting in excellent special color matching for digital proofing and printing
- Recognizes colors available on the HP Indigo press and performs an automatic conversion from any given color or color space to the color space of the press
- PANTONE and HP Indigo Digital Color Toolbox, HP IndiChrome Plus, consisting of PANTONE color swatchbooks
