Despite the doom and gloom surrounding the tough global economic trading conditions, YRG Group Ltd, the York and Manchester based packaging repro specialist, has recently made further investments in leading edge flexographic platemaking systems. The group has installed a Degraf Concept 501 EC plate processing system to complement its earlier investment in the UK's first CDI with UV inline exposure from Esko. The state of the art system can produce consistent high quality printing plates of up to 52 x 80 inches. In addition, the company has also installed an Asahi AWP ...
The YRG Group is delighted to announce the formation of a brand new division - ‘YRG Solutions’. The new division has been created after the key appointments of Steve Buxton and Phil Brown to the YRG Group. Both will bring additional experience, expertise and market knowledge to enable the business to further develop and enhance its services with packaging printers and end-user brand organisations. The strategic intention for ‘YRG Solutions’ is to provide a highly focused, dedicated and dynamic design-to-print origination service to a ‘select’ group of ...
YRG has opened its first branch in Kenya for high end digital flexo plate making. In a joint venture with Marketpower International Ltd and Interlabels Africa Ltd - The new company is called Flexoworld Ltd. Marketpower is the pre-press arm of a large printing conglomerate called Ramco Group while Interlabels Africa Ltd is a leading label manufacturer providing total labelling solutions in the region. Based in Nairobi Kenya, Flexoworld provides Digital Flexo Plates to the label, polythene and carton printers through-out East Africa. This joint venture will drive a ...
ESKO's Perfect Highlights screening is now installed at York Repro on the 4260 Optics 80 CDI. High resolution 4000 dpi imaging is now possible to reproduce an even finer dot - known as HD Flexo Smooth PerfectHighlights is the ultimate solution to the problem of printing good highlights in flexography. A mixture of large and small screen dots is used in the highlight area, providing a smooth gradation with reliable dot printability. The screening can be optimized for your plate, substrate and other print process parameters through YRG consultancy, guaranteeing a trouble free implementation. Contact Bob Hollingsworth for ...
YRG Group have installed Web Centre software, ESKO's fully comprehensive approval and assett management system providing further benefits to YRG clients. Web Centre allows you to work virtually, in real-time, with your internal creative, marketing, package design and engineering groups, external vendors and suppliers and internal personnel. As your business grows, it's essential to get more done without increasing costs. WebCenter lets you review and approve documents, reduce and eliminate development cycles, and save time and money. WebCenter increases efficiency and eliminates wasted effort: get more done with the same people. With WebCenter, ...
YRG have just signed an exclusive 5 year contract with Bemrose Booth's Hull Company for a complete on-site studio and platemaking facility. The deal will bring Bemrose Booth's capabilities away from analogue technology into a completely digitised environment with a major investment of £300,000 in Esko front end, which includes - Backstage, Packedge, Plato, Colourtone, Kaleidoscope, FlexProof/E and FlexRip linked into an Optics 25 Esko CDI 4835 imager. The new digital technology is supported with the latest Asahi 912 flowline and processing system along with a colour managed Epson proofer to complete the loop. ...
Colour Managed Contract Proofing - Direct onto your printing stock! York Repro-graphic, already leaders in the field of Colour Management and contract proofing, are pleased to announce a brand new, exciting proofing facility. Before today, it has been possible to create a colorimetric accurate simulation of a fingerprint and produce a colour managed proof of a job which can easily be matched on press. It has not been possible however, to represent the realistic tangible feel of the actual printed result due to the different substrate they are printed on. This is ...
Through an initiative by the YRG Group Ltd printers can output printing plates as they are required from the latest plate processing equipment on their own premises. Whilst 'satellite' repro is not new, what the York based pre-press house has come up with has got to be attractive to printers. Martin White checks it out. Click here to read the full article
Through an initiative by the YRG Group Ltd printers can output printing plates as they are required from the latest plate processing equipment on their own premises. Whilst 'satellite' repro is not new, what the York based pre-press house has come up with has got to be attractive to printers. Such is the speed of technology change in the printing industry and particularly in the pre-press area, that it is no wonder that more and more printers in the larger format markets are seeking the services of the specialist pre-press house. Because of the ...
We are delighted to enter into a new partnership with Simpsons in Dalkeith. A full CDI platemaking facility has been installed by YRG which includes brand new Asahi platemaking equipment and an ESKO Graphics 2530 CDI. All artwork and reprographic requirements are managed by our York Reprographic site where finished digital plate separations are sent via FTP for imaging on site at Simpsons covering both Flexographic and Letterpress print disciplines. A fully spec'd AppleMac is also installed to handle pre-flighting of new designs in addition to managing finished PDF files for digital printing ...
