Germany Bobst hosted an open house at its new Flexo Center of Excellence at Bobst Bielefeld on February 13, giving attendees the opportunity to experience the entire flexo process from start to finish.
The Competence Center at Bobst Bielefeld has been extended to a fully comprehensive Center of Excellence for the flexo process, specifically for Extended Color Gamut (ECG) for wide-web CI flexo presses. It benefits from an “open partnership” system, meaning all of Bobst’s valued industry partners are present, ensuring the integration of all the elements that combine to make a flawless end-to-end process.
“Bobst Bielefeld provides an invaluable central facility for testing and continuous development of the ECG process,” said Mark McInulty, Managing Director Bobst Bielefeld.
The use of ECG is growing steadily. The process uses three additional ink colours – orange, green and violet (OGV) – on top of the conventional CMYK, enabling a match with more than 90% of the Pantone book, compared with approximately 60% previously.
For a converter, its adoption means many sizeable improvements to economies of time and cost: no more changes of inks and resulting washing of print decks, no need for a huge ink inventory for storing spot inks, no time wasted in ink mixing and a guarantee of color consistency for jobs that are run a long time apart or in different parts of the world.