Digital Colour / Extended Colour Gamut

1. Printing with Extended
Colour Gamut
Printing with Digital
Colour

2. Acme Graphics
Staff of 26
5 Reps / 9 DTP Operators / 3 Drivers / 5 Platemakers
Offices in Edenvale (Longmeadow) and Durban
5000 Square Metres Plate Per Year

4. Imagine
• “Digital” Press printing at up to 400m/min.
• 92% Wash-up Time Saving
• 78% Setup Time Saving
• 63% Less Start-up Waste
• 0% Press Return Inks
• No Ink Room

5. Save Time and Material

6. • 15-40% Ink Saving
Save Ink

7. No Press Returned Ink

8. Save Time (continued)
The “Tetra Pak” approach – Substitute spot colours with
Process or “Digital” Colour
“Any customer can have packaging
printed in their brand colours so long as
it requires no more than 1 wash-up”
Assembly Line Approach to Printing – Hauke Liefferink

9. It’s a hot topic!

11. We call it…Digital Colour
• Print Buyers (your customers) struggle to understand “Extended Colour
Gamut”
• They understand “Digital Printing” without Pantone or spot colours
• It’s best to tell them you are printing with “Digital Colour” just like an HP
Indigo for instance

13. What makes it work commercially?

14. What makes it work commercially?

15. 8 colour press WITH Line Black
Line Black (also barcode etc.)
No Black! No Black!

17. We ARE doing it commercially!

19. Flexo matching Gravure Requires Digital Colour
Many Gravure “Designs” Don’t Allow for High Volume Aniloxes

20. Problem! High Volume Aniloxes
Inks achieving target density on spot
colours do not allow screens to be
printed above +-85lpi due to
insufficient pigment loading requiring
high volume aniloxes

22. Brand Owners are asking for it
2 Spot Colors CMY CMY + RB

23. Enhance Vibrancy

24. Reduce Change Overs
Multi Variant Printing / Brand Owner Signoff

26. Supply of Artwork
Supply artwork as per usual, CMYK & Spots

27. CMY
OGV or RGB
CMYOGV + Line Black (Logo)

28. Ink Sequencing
1. Line Black
2. Cyan
3. Magenta
4. Yellow
5. Red
6. Green
7. Blue
8. White
Reverse
1. White
2. Cyan
3. Magenta
4. Yellow
5. Red
6. Green
7. Blue
8. Line Black
Surface

29. • ISO 12647 CMYK
• Pantone and Spots (TVI)
• Digital Colour
We work with your EXISTING ink supplier
Then, we write the Recipe to achieve ISO standards,
Digital Colour and Spot Colour Tone Values

31. Level of Difficulty?
1. Compare Press Operator Target to Web Targets
2. Check if you are within Light/Middle/Dark std.
3. Print!!!

33. Turnkey
• No Trial Costs
• No Obligation
• No Capital
Investment
• Just use us for
your plates!

34. Free Digital Press @ 400m/min.