Suite 14. Packaging Management, Design & Pre-production. Suite 14 software covers:

Suite 14

Packaging Management, Design & Pre-production

Software Suite 14 is a complete collection of pre-production software tools for packaging, signage and display production.

Suite 14 supports and manages the packaging and print processes at brand owners, retailers, designers, packaging manufacturers and print service providers. 9 out of 10 retail packages are touched by Esko solutions in packaging management, artwork creation, structural design, prepress, 3D visualization, sample-making, plate making, workflow automation and integration, quality assurance, palletization and supply chain collaboration.

Suite 14 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 14: add value, improve efficiency and reduce cost

The Suite 14 tools for design, prepress, workflow and management cover the widest possible range of pro-fessional 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 14 supports this integrated approach with tools that create added value, improve efficiency and drive cost out of the entire process. With Suite 14, users widen and deepen their impact, grip and control over the packaging supply chain.

Esko customers will find their investments well protected. Suite 14 brings significant new capabilities in prepress edit-ing, 3D visualization, quality assurance, color management, workflow automation and palletization without the need to reengineer operational workflows or re-train operators.

Idea: Brand Manager has identified the need for packaging (a new product, an update, a pro-motion…) Structure: Develop physical structure concepts Mock-up: Create digital visualizations of the pack-aged product Sample making: Create physical representations of a packaged product Prepress: Prepare

design for volume production

Proofing: Confirm

correct color reproduction

Die-cut tools: Prepare the tools to

cut out the package after printing

Design: integrated

graphical packaging design

Design

Prepress

Sheet

Layout

Sample

Making

Plate

Making

Lights out Automation

System Integration

Project Management & Collaboration

Diecut

Tools

Idea

Mockup

Proofing

Structure

Sheet layout: Create

the optimal layout of the print sheet

Print: Print text and

graphics on packaging

Finishing & digital cutting: Apply

fin-ishing to individual packages: emboss-ing, cuttemboss-ing, creas-ing, folding ...

Logistics: Transport

packaged product to store

Retail: Place on

store shelf ready for sale

Print

_{digital cutting}

Finishing &

_Packer

Filler

Logistics

Retail

Fulfillment: Fill

package with product

For the brand owner the term

packaging refers to more than

just a single label or a box

design. Packaging is the

over-all embodiment of the brand

and includes ever y single

component of the complete

brand experience.

Design packaging & displays

Design packaging in 3D

Packaging and display development starts with structural design.

Whether you create folding carton boxes, corrugated contain-ers, 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

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 productiv-ity throughout your company. ArtiosCAD is the ideal product for all corrugated, folding carton and POP display designers.

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 prepress operator checking a back-match, with Studio you are virtually holding the pack in your hands.

ArtiosCAD

ArtiosCAD offers design and drafting tools for the structural design of paperboard packag-ing 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 manu-facturing.

ArtiosCAD Enterprise

brings all your production files, design and material libraries to a private cloud. Conveniently and securely accessible over the internet, ArtiosCAD Enterprise con-nects all stakeholders, inter-nally as well as exterinter-nally, 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

Studio is a collection of tools that adds the 3rd dimension and holistic approach to your packaging design.

Studio Designer

Studio Designer illustrates Esko’s holistic vision on pack-aging prepress: rather than merely showing the individual items of a packaging proj-ect, each component can be previewed in 3D either separately or ‘in context’. This enables faster, more efficient and more accurate packag-ing design. And it happens all inside Adobe® _Illustrator®_.

Esko Store Visualizer places

3D packaging designs on

virtu-al shelves. Discover how your

designs will work in an

inter-active and dynamic 3D retail

environment.

Studio Toolkit

Studio Toolkit adds easy-to-use 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 pro-vide an instantaneous 3D virtual mockup of graphics and structure.

Studio Visualizer

Studio Visualizer adds the finishing touch. Its patented dynamic print visualization previews a wide range of sub-strates, printing and finish-ing effects in real-time. With Visualizer you can share the results as images or movies.

Studio Store Visualizer

Studio Store Visualizer (developed by Vtales graph-ics) creates a genuine and hyper-realistic moment of truth experience by putting your packaging design in a dynamic virtual retail environ-ment.

Cape Pack

Cape Pack is a modular suite of palletization software to help determine the best product size, case count, case size and pallet load. Companies around the world are using Esko’s Cape Pack palletiza-tion software to reduce their ecological footprint.

Advanced packaging prepress

Eliminate production errors

ArtPro and PackEdge

ArtPro, ArtPro+ and PackEdge are editors for pre-production of labels and packaging on Mac and PC. 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}

full-fledged packaging workstation. ‘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

Packaging prepress professionals don’t like to take chances: they opt for dedicated prepress editors ArtPro, ArtPro+ and PackEdge, or they use DeskPack, the collection of packag-ing prepress plugins for Adobe® _Illustrator®_.

Recognized and endorsed by industry professionals for their performance, all editors share the same packaging-rich functionality like a barcode editor, trapping software, 3D previewing, step and repeat and SmartMarks.

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 intui-tive and user-friendly way.

The Automation Engine is at the heart of your prepress work-flow, organizing projects and data assets and automating repetitive and mundane tasks.

Automatic and interactive trapping on

Mac, PC and in Adobe

_Illustrator

Add and edit dynamic barcode

Moire detection using the

flexo plate and print view

Design studios, trade shops

and converters around the

world rely on Esko prepress

tools for the make ready of

packaging and labels.

C o u rte sy o f I n c. F le x

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 through-put and saves time and money. It is, by all standards, an exceptional answer to the daily challenges of print profes-sionals 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 system to manage your business process, approval cycles and digital assets 24/7. This secure, internet-based, collabo-ration 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 andother packaging elements. What’s more, with the Chili Publisher on board, WebCenter reduces time to market with a streamlined online copy editing process. Web-based storage brings greater efficiency and better asset reusability.

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 pro-cess. All this data can be shared online, in one dedicated, centralized spot.

All stakeholders, including product managers, packaging buyers, designers, trade shops 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-paste work-flows. Automated artwork creation and copy management eliminates errors and speeds up the process. Managing content for size, flavor and language variants becomes a breeze.

Packaging approval & copy management

Esko´s packaging workflow and

management tools are

acces-sible 24/7, even on mobile

devices.

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).

Color Engine

Color Engine is a centralized color management server and database with patented spec-tral profile technology. It offers unique and patented capabili-ties for spot color handling, providing integrated and con-sistent color management from design to final print.

Equinox

Equinox is a total solution for the implementation of Multi Color Printing and Extended Gamut Printing in packaging and commercial print. Esko patented overprint model pro-vides a unique approach to multi-ink profile support.

Imaging Engine

Imaging Engine is the RIP that provides consistent, high performance, top qual-ity output across all types of imaging and print devices, both conventional and digital.

Screening

Esko offers the widest range of halftone screening tech-nologies, each optimized for specific print processes. Concentric Screening, for example, is a revolutionary and proven halftone dot tech-nology for offset printing. HD Flexo and Full HD Flexo screening are the new stan-dards for flexographic printing. Everyone in the packaging supply chain has a stake in

get-ting 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 com-munication evens the path to success.

Proofing made easy

Esko 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 qual-ity 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 management & output

FlexProof/E

Workflow independent proof-ing solution. FlexProof is an ICC compatible solution for high quality and consistent digital proofing.

Extra output tools

Suite 14 comes with addi-tional tools for bitmap viewing (Bitmap Viewer) bitmap edit-ing (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 acces-sible to brand owners, designers, production people, anyone and everyone in the supply chain, anywhere around the globe. Suite 14 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.

Esko unique patented color

technology guarantees brand

managers of accurate,

consis-tent and repeatable brand

color reproduction on every

substrate, with every print

technology.

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Suite 14 - focus on 5 key directions

Superior quality

The focus of a prepress operator shifts entirely to quality checking: once to obtain cus-tomer approval of a design and a second time just before the press starts. Interactive tools dedicated to check quality will simplify the task.

Interactive editing is task driven

Quality checking, exception handling and building smart templates are the three main tasks for the prepress operator.

New cross platform software apps will provide for a task-driven user experience. Only the tools required for a task are on the operator’s desktop (or tablet). Intelligent wizards guide the operator through expert processes.

Improved workflow automation

Smart workflow tickets route designs automatically to a press-ready printing plate. Workflow automation will stretch beyond printing and finishing and integrates with logistics at the end of the line.

Operator interaction is limited to exception handling and quality checking. Open industry standards enable integration with business systems and data silo’s, regard-less of physical location. Cloud based packaging management systems interface with prepress workflow serves in open and transparent way.

Smart templates

The basis for a lights-out workflow is a smart design template. Content is strictly separated from creation: the designer determines the looks of the pack “by example” and within a brand guidelines framework.

Critical content resides securely in the cloud-based packaging management system of the brand owner. No more ‘copy and paste’ in Adobe Illustrator but linking smart objects to secure and approved content in a database. This level of automation guarantees brand consistency and legal compliance at a maximum productivity and shortest time to market.

Online supply chain integration

Smart templates and workflow tickets connect prepress to all stakeholders involved. Operations run virtually anywhere in the world, in a home office or even on the road. Integrated packaging-savvy production and asset management systems dramatically improve time to market and reduced cost.

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