The Total Package

Ian Hole, BARCO Graphics market manager, Packaging and Labels, advises the use of a complete digital prepress system to maximize productivity in an automated environment.

"Workflow can only be achieved most efficiently and effectively from A-Z if the whole system is digital—a complete solution, delivering the full possibility of digital functionality," Hole contends. "Graphics are getting far more complex and will continue to do so—complex designs, stepping demands, production parameters—and this requires the full run of a digital workflow, with automated step-and-repeat, color correction and rich functionality specially designed to handle the richer files of packaging prepress departments. At the output end, sophisticated screening techniques to optimize a particular printing process with speed and predictability are employed."