Fiery and Esko Partner to Extend Advanced Digital Print Technologies and Packaging Workflows

Fiery, LLC and Esko announced a new technology partnership to develop innovative solutions that advance digital print technologies and packaging workflows. The companies will collaborate on workflow integrations to more rapidly develop new solutions to help print suppliers in the digital print and packaging industries.

The companies unveiled seamless integration between Fiery Impress, the turnkey DFE for industrial inkjet presses and inline manufacturing lines, and Esko Automation Engine, prepress workflow automation. The integration allows customers to easily migrate their existing workflows for digital print technologies.

“Esko is an ideal partner, sharing our vision for simplifying print workflows through digital technologies,” said Maria Brilaki, Sr. Director, Product Management, Fiery. “By joining forces, we can bring to market integrated packaging workflow solutions that optimize the design to production to finishing process and help our customers achieve more precise color reproduction, higher digital press efficiency, and sustainability.”
more at: https://www.efi.com/library/efi/documents/3541/fiery_esko_agreement_pr_final_en_us.pdf

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