Ahmedabad-based Shilp Gravures has recently installed Esko’s Full HD Flexo solution allowing the company’s flexographic offering to compete with offset and gravure quality.
The company installed a combination of inline UV2 technology on its CDI 4260 digital flexo imager and special screening.
Gajanan Bhavsar, marketing director, said, ‘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.’
For most of its 25 year history, Shilp Gravures has been acknowledged as the leading Indian gravure cylinder trade house. In 2009, the company 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, the company 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, the company has been able to move flexo quality to the next level for leading packaging and label printers and converters.
