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.
There are several reasons for a printer to convert his printing process into ECG:
- Increased productivity and reduction in downtime
- More flexibility with cross-compatibility between technologies
- Shorter job runs can be printed more profitably
- Reduction in cleaning time and consumables
- Big ink savings and space optimization
- Significant substrate waste reduction
- Exact job repeatability
- Savings on plate costs
oneECG for inline flexo printing
oneECG is BOBST’s extended color gamut technology as deployed across analogue and digital printing processes for labels, flexible packaging, and folding carton. By fully digitalizing and automating color management, oneECG takes inline flexo printing to a higher level in terms of improved time-to-market, print quality, cost reduction, and better sustainability. oneECG uses a fixed set of inks – CMYK with the option to add orange, green and violet – to achieve a larger color gamut than printing with traditional technology. With the oneECG system, printers can also ensure complete color consistency and repeatability irrespective of the individual operator’s skill and experience. Instead of mixing inks in an ink kitchen to match a specific Pantone or ‘spot’ color, the color is built up on press by layers from the fixed color set, usually using two to three inks. oneECG allows printers to accurately replicate 65% of the Pantone book with just four colors and up to 90% with seven, depending on the substrate. This represents huge savings in costs, materials and time, meaning converters can delivery faster at a more competitive cost level and better environmental footprint.
At BOBST’s Competence Center in Florence (Italy), a full working oneECG ecosystem has been created to train operators from prepress to printing, whilst verifying the entire process. This is the perfect chance for the whole team to see oneECG in action, ask questions, and test real production jobs live. After installation, on-site training is available tailored specifically to each customer’s needs.
What does it deliver?
Productivity
Increased productivity and reduction in downtime – as only the plates are changed, there is no need to load the ink tray, change the anilox or the doctor blade at each job changeover. Coupled with automatic register control, makeready time is reduced by 50%.
Sustainability
Significant substrate waste reduction – all color matching is done in prepress which means the press comes to color much faster than in traditional flexo printing. Combined with DigiFlexo, less than 30 meters of substrate is used at each new job setup.
Big ink savings and space optimization – oneECG creates no ink waste. With only four to seven fixed colors, converters will not have valuable storage space taken up by large inventories of Pantone inks, leftovers and waste.
Savings on plate costs – when a job is converted to oneECG, there is most often a reduction in the number of colors required, so fewer plates are needed for each job.
Quality and consistency
Exact job repeatability – a oneECG job can be repeated successfully on different presses, in different factories, even in different parts of the world, because in the main, color matching is done digitally, allowing for better business continuity.
Flexibility
More flexibility with cross-compatibility between technologies – oneECG allows jobs to be transferred from flexo to digital or vice versa without limits while maintaining full color consistency
Ease of operation
Reduction in cleaning time and consumables – a fixed set of inks means cleaning becomes part of the regular maintenance and is not required at each job changeover. Even savings on plate costs – when a job is converted to oneECG, there is most often a reduction in the number of colors required, so fewer plates are needed for each job.
Profitability
Shorter job runs can be printed more profitably – faster setup, no changeover of inks and anilox converts to less ink waste, less substrate waste and faster turnaround. And with oneECG, multiple SKUs can easily be printed across the web.
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