Dynamic Barcodes for Illustrator®
Generate dynamic barcodes with assured printability. Contains a wide range of industry standard barcodes with advanced features such as automatic box generation, bar width reduction and output resolution dependent scaling.
Preflight for Illustrator®
Check your incoming files as early as possible to minimize the cost of errors or validate your designs before you send them off to the printer. With Preflight for Illustrator® your file is verified against a personal profile and a validation report is generated. This interactive report guides your through the violations found against image types and resolutions, line widths, color spaces, minimum %, font rules, …
BoostX for Illustrator®
This portfolio of dedicated tools accelerates frequently used selection and alignment operations, and to add new ways to handle spot colors and special inks beyond Illustrator's powerful capabilities.
Image Extractor for Illustrator®
Embedded images in Adobe® Illustrator® files cannot be edited. This makes last minute revisions impossible. With Image Extractor, you can convert embedded images into externally linked images, allowing you to edit them in Photoshop®.
Channel Mapping for Illustrator®
Remap channels of embedded or linked images into any used ink in the document. Channel Mapping remaps the inks of all commonly used images formats (TIFF, JPEG, PSD, Photoshop DCS, Photoshop EPS, PNG, GIF...).
Viewer for Illustrator®
A correct visualization of your packaging design is crucial in a professional environment. With Viewer for Illustrator®, you can work with predefined Press Settings to detect first printable dots, to simulate dot gain and registration errors, and to calculate the total area coverage in your file.
Instant Trapper for Illustrator®
By far the easiest interactive trapping solution on the market. Trapping becomes a matter of clicking the 2 elements you want to trap. All traps are placed on a separate layer and centerlines are automatically calculated.
PowerTrapper for Illustrator®
Using EskoArtwork’s automatic trapping engine, PowerTrapper will trap your file in a matter of seconds. You can make presets full of rules and exceptions to trap the file according to your specifications. On the fly modifications are made easy in the very intuitive user interface. PowerTrapper exists as a standalone module or as a client-server based solution.
Seamless Repeat for Illustrator®
Gravure and flexo cylinders often need to print continuously, without a visible seam. Based on the input graphics and cylinder size, Seamless Repeat for Illustrator® calculates the correct spacing and repeat numbers to properly wrap any design around the particular cylinder. Typical use cases are wallpaper, laminates, upholstery, vinyl flooring…
Flexo Tools for Photoshop®
Add Esko's flexo expertise to Adobe® Photoshop®. Flexo Tools resolve flexo specific printing issues, and allow Adobe® Photoshop® CS users to visualize changes. Novice flexo operators will develop images ready for flexo, while experienced retouchers will appreciate how the flexo tools improve the quality and productivity of work.
Manage spot colors, visualize flexo plates on screen, switch inks from CMYK to as many as four spot colors. Import and export of multi-channel DCS, TIFF-IT or CT files is also possible.
Ink Tools for Photoshop®
With Display Inks you can show your special ink separations in full color overprint. The colors will match a lot closer to the printed result as they would when using the standard Photoshop spot channels. And unlike spot channels, with Display Inks you don't have to give up any Photoshop feature like layering.
The Inkswitch filter can automatically calculate special ink separations to match the appearance of a CMYK target. Patented Esko technology is used to create totally new separations for any combination of two, three or four spot-colors. The result is displayed with Display Inks so you can further enhance the image with a very accurate display of the overprint colors.