JV Uniflex won the prestigious prize with its Moskovskiy Kartofel entry

 

JV Uniflex has been congratulated by Esko for winning the Supreme Award at the FlexoTech International Print & Innovations Awards 2013.

The company won the prestigious prize with its Moskovskiy Kartofel entry. The same entry also won the ‘Flexo job previously printed by another process’ category.

‘We are incredibly pleased with this prize. It’s like the Oscars for printing,’ said Eugene Lungin, head of prepress at Uniflex. ‘It demonstrates our advances in flexo printing, a breakthrough which was possible thanks to the Esko products we implemented – Esko Full HD Flexo and Equinox colour technology. We aim to transfer our jobs from rotogravure and offset to flexo, and Esko’s technology allows us to do so.’

As many as 15 awards were given to leading innovators in the flexo industry. The Supreme Award was won by JV Uniflex for its Moskovskiy Kartofel entry. ‘This category shows how the old limitations of flexo have been confined to history. The process now offers all that brand owners could want and this Supreme Winner takes flexo print quality significantly beyond that of gravure. A truly deserving winner,’ stated the judges.

‘This great quality improvement was possible thanks to combination of Esko Full HD Flexo, applied on photopolymer plates with the special composition of not only plain dots but also traditional round dots, and the unique Equinox technology for expanded gamut printing,’ explained Mr Lungin.

By extensively using the possibilities of Equinox, Uniflex is able to reproduce a spot colour while maintaining the visual brand identity, and in addition, substantially expand the gamut of the image exactly where it is required. ‘With Equinox, we added one more colour to the Moskovskiy Kartofel image to make it brighter, richer and with more contrast,’ said Mr Lungin.

‘We congratulate Uniflex for its breakthrough and are very proud with the recognition of their work and of our Full HD Flexo technology,’ commented Andrey Bataev, Esko’s general manager Russian Federation & CIS. ‘Esko and Uniflex have an excellent, long-term relationship. Uniflex is more then a customer, it is a strategic partner because of our common goal – improving flexo print quality and pushing flexo printing to new production standards. Esko sets the trend, and it is great to see Uniflex successfully putting it into practice.’ 

To see the rest of the winners of the FlexoTech International Print & Innovations Awards 2013 click here.