HD Letterpress: unsurpassed dry offset quality - Esko

HD Letterpress

A superb imaging solution for HD Letterpress plates that helps you overcome some typical challenges in dry offset printing.

HD Letterpress

HD Letterpress
unsurpassed dry offset quality


Esko's HD Letterpress is a superb imaging solution for HD Letterpress plates that helps you overcome some typical challenges in dry offset printing.

Dry offset printing for conical/cylindrical packaging, such as e.g. beverage and aerosol can decoration, places multiple inks, “wet-on-wet”, on a common blanket and that image is then transferred to the packaging to be decorated.

The “wet-on-wet” ink transfer presents several printing problems that must be properly addressed in prepress for a job to look and run great and for your packaging to truly stand out on the shelf!

HD Letterpress - Unsurpassed dry offset quality

HD Letterpress - Magnetic drum with Inline UV

What is HD Letterpress?

Esko’s letterpress functionality for the CDI, with a magnetic drum for steel-back plate making, has been significantly improved by adding the Inline UV exposure option.



More elaborate designs

Thanks to the new Inline UV exposure and high resolution imaging, HD Letter­press overcomes some of the challenges for dry offset printing: smooth highlights, clean printing of text; and fine positive and negative linework are now possible.

With HD Letterpress you can use outstanding print designs for your products even though using the “wet-on-wet” printing method - so your product can truly attract attention.


A closer look at HD Letterpress

A closer look at HD Letterpress