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Matching gravure quality with flexo using Esko’s
Full HD Flexo solution
Shilp Gravures – pioneering gravure and flexo quality in Asia
Mumbai, India – November 2014 – Ahmedabad-based Shilp Gravures has recently installed Esko’s
Full HD Flexo solution, a combination of inline UV2 technology on its CDI 4260 digital flexo imager
and special screening. Esko Full HD Flexo allows flexographic printing to compete with offset and
gravure quality. “This was the only technology that gave us the best flat top and round top dots in the
same flexographic plate, with results close to offset and gravure quality. We have been waiting for
years to achieve gravure quality with flexo plates as it is a faster, more flexible and cost effective
process. Finally Full HD Flexo gives us this breakthrough so it’s now possible to move the highest
quality work from gravure to flexo which is what some of the leading brand owners want,” says Mr.
Gajanan Bhavsar, Shilp Marketing Director.
Shilp’s mastery and expansion in flexography parallels its mastery of gravure by continuous
investment in leading edge technology. The Esko CDI 4260 installation with inline UV2 provides the
Full HD Flexo solution with its combination of special micro screening for smooth vignettes, sparkling
highlight detail, vibrant brand and spot colors and high solid densities.
For most of its 25-year history, Shilp Gravures has been acknowledged as the leading Indian
gravure cylinder trade house. In 2009, Shilp acquired a leading flexo trade shop – an existing user of
Esko prepress and digital imaging for flexographic plates. As narrow and wide web flexography grew
in the country and even gravure printers added wide web central impression cylinder (CI) flexo
presses for flexible packaging, Shilp was there with the best technology from its long-time partner.
The company was amongst the earliest to invest in Esko software products such as Flexo Tools and
HD Flexo imaging in 2012. By adopting innovations like Esko Full HD Flexo inline UV2 on its CDI
imager, and with its own comprehensive knowledge in flexible packaging, Shilp has been able to
move flexo quality to the next level for leading packaging and label printers and converters.
Since 1997, when the first Esko system was installed at Shilp, it has been an exercise of constant
growth, expansion and new technology and refinement for both the companies. As the flexible
packaging industry grew in India, the global quality standards required by the consumer product
companies had to be met and Shilp continued to exercise its leadership position in the industry by
adding the latest technology in prepress and electronic engravers. In fact, the company became an
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exhibitor at drupa as a supplier and exporter of engraved cylinders. This latest development of
cutting edge flexographic platemaking at Shilp is the natural outcome of a fruitful relationship of 18
years with Esko.
About Esko (www.esko.com)
Esko is a global supplier of integrated solutions for the packaging and labels, sign and display,
commercial printing and publishing industries. Esko products and services drive profitability in the
packaging and printing supply chain by reducing time-to-market and raising productivity.
Portfolio
The Esko product portfolio supports and manages the packaging and print processes at brand
owners, retailers, designers, packaging manufacturers and print service providers. For 9 out of 10
retail packages, Esko solutions are used in packaging management, artwork creation, structural
design, prepress, 3D visualization, plate making, workflow automation, quality assurance, samplemaking, palletization, supply chain collaboration and the production of signage and displays.
The Esko solutions consist of an extensive suite of software and two hardware product lines: CDI
flexo computer-to-plate imagers and Kongsberg digital cutting systems, complemented with
professional services, training and consultancy.
Enfocus, with its suite of automation solutions and PDF quality control tools for printers, publishers,
and graphic designers, is part of Esko.
Facts & numbers
Esko employs around 1300 people worldwide. Its direct sales and service organization covers
Europe, Middle East and Africa, the Americas and the Asia Pacific, Japan and China regions and is
complemented by a network of distribution partners in more than 50 countries.
Esko is headquartered in Gent, Belgium, and has R&D and manufacturing facilities in five European
countries, the United States, China and India. Esko is a Danaher company (www.danaher.com).
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Pradeep Ram
Marketing Manager
Tel: +65 6420 0362
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Jef Stoffels
Director of Corporate Marketing
Tel: +32 9 216 90 32
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