Flexo Color Separation Simplified
Despite the advancements in digital prepress technology over the last 25 years, the process of optimizing a flexo color separation remains largely a manual process. Manual editing to control dropouts, hide hard edges, eliminate highlight scum, prevent isolated dots produces high-quality separations but consumes extreme amount of time. That's all about to change!
Coupling the latest in flexo plate exposure technology with new RIP tools for automated scum dot removal provides the potential to remove manual intervention from the flexo color separation process. It also produced higher quality separations and enables the use of Max GCR for extremely color stability.
Mark began his career with DuPont where he held numerous positions in the areas of flexographic plates and electronic imaging. Mark joined Esko in 1997 and is currently focused on the development, marketing, and industry support of Esko color products. These include screening, calibration, G7, color management, and expanded gamut. He holds 11 patents in digital imaging – including FlexoCal, Hybrid Screening, Plate Cell Patterning, Concentric Screening, PressSync, and Equinox expanded gamut technology. He has authored numerous articles in the industry’s major trade publications and presented many papers at the industry’s major trade forums. In May of 2011, Mark was inducted as the 49th member of the FTA Hall of Fame.
Mark received his Bachelor’s in Printing Science from RIT and his Master’s in Business Administration from the University of Delaware. He lives in Wilmington, Delaware with his wife Katherine and has two daughters in college.