Creative Graphics, one of India’s
biggest and fastest growing flexo prepress and trade platemaking businesses
based in Noida in the Delhi National Capital Region, has entered the top rung
of flexo platemaking. The company’s drive for technological excellence
culminated with its recent absorption of the Esko HD Flexo technology and
ultimately, Esko HD Flexo Certification. On Friday 25 July 2014, Mr. Srihari
Rao, Sales Director of Esko India, presented the HD Flexo Certification
personally to Creative Graphics proprietor Mr. Deepanshu Goel at the company’s
premises in Noida.
Mr. Srihari Rao said, “I am extremely pleased at Creative
Graphics success in achieving Esko HD Flexo Certification which gives flexo
printers in India an opportunity to match the best quality in flexographic
print to be found anywhere in the world. Apart from this global benchmarking,
I'm impressed by the high volume of production that Mr. Deepanshu Goel and
Creative are delivering to printers and converters.”
Mr. Deepanshu Goel explains that his company is a
long-time user of Esko packaging software including DeskPack, Plato and
FlexRip, which successfully expanded its operations in the last two years with
the addition of a large format CDI Spark 4260 output device for producing the
highest quality flexographic plates. The company is a leading flexo plate
supplier to the copybook, corrugated carton, flexible packaging and label
industry in the country and with a second plant in Hyderabad, the only
multi-location flexographic trade operation in the country.
The Esko HD Flexo certification process entailed qualifying
plates and creating appropriate screen sets based on customers’ presses and
conditions. Mr. Deepanshu Goel says, “We have invested in calibration, training
and testing in this certification process, including the examination of test
prints and ultimately the examination of running production prints by Esko’s
experts.”
The advantages of
Esko HD Flexo
Mr. Deepanshu
Goel explains some of the advantages of Esko HD Flexo for his flexo plate
customers. “Plates made with Esko HD Flexo allow better ink coverage in
shadows, improving solid densities and eliminating pinholes while also
providing softer vignettes,” says Mr. Deepanshu Goel. “The improved surface
texture of the dots themselves, allow the use of a single anilox roller even
with halftones on the same plate that use a variety of screen rulings. In
addition, our HD Flexo plates are more robust and since they require less
pressure for achieving a better layer of ink transfer they are able to produce
longer print runs with exceptional quality.”
