Fiery and Esko announce Esko Color Engine now integrated with Fiery Impress

Packaging Solutions

Esko and Fiery have announced that Esko Color Engine is now integrated with the Fiery Impress DFE for industrial printing.

This co-developed workflow solution gives inkjet press manufacturers a powerful, flexible DFE designed to meet diverse customer colour needs. With Fiery Impress, manufacturers can offer their customers the choice of Fiery colour technology or Esko Color Engine, enabling seamless integration into existing packaging workflows. This flexibility helps manufacturers differentiate their presses and deliver greater value to customers by ensuring consistent, brand accurate colour across both analogue and digital production.

Esko’s colour management technology enables packaging producers to manage colour consistently across an entire plant. With the integration of Esko Color Engine, Fiery Impress can fit seamlessly into existing Esko workflows, so customers never have to choose between maximum performance and accurate colour. From brand design files prepared in Esko pre-press tools to output on a Fiery Impress driven digital press, customers benefit from a predictable, end to end colour workflow across their entire operation. Fiery Impress also offers easy scalability, with automation and performance features that adapt as business needs evolve.

Fiery Impress’ lightning fast streaming performance for complex variable data printing files, along with easy JDF integration with other systems, lets industrial press manufacturers offer customers the power they need for a wide range of applications, from simple labels to high end custom packaging. Fiery Impress’ streamlined development and integration process – designed for quick incorporation into new press designs – brings press manufacturers faster time to market with new industrial inkjet presses. And because Fiery Impress is the only DFE to fully integrate Esko Color Engine, manufacturers can offer presses that effortlessly integrate into customers’ existing Esko workflows in a simple, streamlined process.

‘Workflows are key to success for digital industrial printing, especially in complex, variable data intensive applications like labels and packaging. Print providers need integrated, easy to use processes that deliver streamlined automation while maximising both power and colour quality. Thanks to the integration of Esko Color Engine with our award winning Fiery Impress DFE, print businesses no longer have to choose between performance and colour, and industrial inkjet press manufacturers can deliver new presses with not only faster time to market, but easy implementation into existing Esko print environments,’ said Toby Weiss, CEO, Fiery.

 ‘Integrating Esko’s Color Engine with Fiery Impress DFE marks a significant step toward realising our vision of accelerating time to market. By enabling end to end colour management across the entire packaging workflow, we are not just improving colour consistency – we are empowering converters and brand owners to drive efficiency, reduce waste, and deliver with confidence,’ said Jan De Roeck, chief marketing officer, Esko.

‘Industrial printing is a key growth area of digital print, particularly with applications like labels and packaging. This partnership between Fiery and Esko to integrate Esko Color Engine with the Fiery Impress DFE is a great development that not only delivers the colour and performance results that make industrial print customers happy, but will also offer a more streamlined solution for industrial press manufacturers to offer innovative new presses to markets around the world,’ said Andreas Goehring, director, professional imaging, Epson America.