oneECG
BOBST oneECG
oneECG is BOBST’s Extended Color Gamut (ECG) technology deployed across analogue and digital printing processes in label, flexible packaging, folding carton and corrugated board industries. It enables to achieve color consistency in a stable, repeatable and consistent way irrespective of operator’s skill.
What is ECG?
Extended Color Gamut printing (ECG) refers to a set of inks - 4 and beyond, but typically 7 - CMYK + Orange, Green, Violet - to achieve a color gamut larger than the traditional CMYK and it avoid using spot colors. oneECG is the full digital automation of ECG across BOBST printing processes.
Why ECG?
Brand owners and consumers perceive color variations as a lack of product quality, heavily affecting brand identity and customer loyalty. Brand’s colors should be consistent irrespective of the printing process, the substrate, and the country where production is done. Furthermore, color matching of PMS Pantone colors is often left to the ability of operators to mix the inks, adapt to the different substrates and other subjective elements. This strong component of the operator’s skill cannot ensure perfect reproduction and repeatable consistency of the brand colors.
oneECG for CI flexo printing – Flexible packaging, labels, linerboard pre-print
oneECG for CI flexo presses is an open-partnership system to multiple suppliers, developed for Extended Color Gamut printing using solvent-based, water-based, and Ebeam inks. Leading suppliers in the flexo industry are collaborating to achieve the highest color stability and repeatability. oneECG partners are certified to ensure quality of results on BOBST CI flexo ECG presses.
What does it deliver?
Quality and consistency
Exceptional Color Consistency
Color matching means no more manual ink formulation, mixing in the ink kitchen or on press color adjustments.
Color matching is digital and ink mixing is automated directly on the plates.
Color Delta E is repeatable, measurable, consistent, and independent from the press operators.
Vibrant & realistic high quality graphics and photo images
In addition to CMYK, the addition of Green, Orange and Violet images offers deeper and more natural colors answering the most demanding job requirements and matching a wider color gamut.
Process consistency and repeatability
oneECG, in combination with the digital automation features of BOBST CI flexo presses, like smartGPS, brings significant advantages in terms of machine uptime, flexibility and repeatability. Color conformity of the printed output with the job master file is a reality, guaranteeing brand owners color consistency and repeatability of print quality for job reprints even across different production sites.
Next to zero waste at make-ready and changeovers
The combined action of smartGPS off-press impression and register setting system and oneECG enables fast changeovers with minimum waste.
Less than 10 minutes and 25 m of substrate waste from the last saleable print of one job to the first saleable print of the next.
On-the-fly job changeovers performed at production speed.
Sustainability
High sustainability in flexible packaging applications
No more than 25 meters of substrate waste at each new job set-up and changeover
No ink waste, less ink consumption
No color change, no washing of decks at job changeovers
No solvent waste
Who are the oneECG partners for CI flexo printing?
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