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Siegwerk is your Expert Partner in ECG:
Expanded Color Gamut (ECG) printing has become more practical and efficient thanks to Siegwerk’s specialized expertise. Our COLORWERK XG initiative offers customized tools and standard operating procedures (SOPs) to help businesses successfully implement ECG in printing operations.
What is ECG printing?
Expanded Color Gamut (ECG) printing is a process with a fixed ink-set such as the 7-inks of CMYKOGV, instead of dedicated spot color inks. Also known as N-color printing, Fixed Color Palette (FCP) or Multi-color printing, ECG is gaining popularity worldwide across various market sectors and print technologies.
What are benefits and challenges of ECG?
The key benefits include: reduced wash-ups and job changeover times, less waste, increased press capacity, lower press-return inks and reduced CO2 footprint.
The ECG printing process comes with challenges, such as managing the complexity of substrate structures and ink systems, a lack of expertise in ECG implementation, maintaining process stability and understanding the limitations of ECG printing.
Siegwerk can be your expert partner when it comes to supporting you with ECG printing.
How can Siegwerk help you?
Siegwerk has comprehensive knowhow and experience in ECG printing implementation. Our color management experts have developed a toolkit, COLORWERK XG, to support your successful transition to ECG printing. This includes:
- ECG ink optimization: to provide you standard or customized ECG inks based on your requirements
- ECG Feasibility evaluation: to analyze if you have the right tools in place
- ROI for ECG: to calculate your return on investment based on costs and tangible benefits
- Training and support: for your ECG implementation for flexography, offset or gravure printing
ECG printing provides significant tangible benefits for your business. But the implementation can be complex and challenging. You need a strong partner like Siegwerk to avoid failure.
For more information, contact colorwerk(at)siegwerk.com or find out more in our case study about ECG here.