Flint Group to Launch New Color Management Tool at drupa
Following extensive dialogue with international packaging converters and brand owner partners, Flint Group is set to revolutionize print color management with VIVO Colour Solutions, launched to the global market at drupa 2016.
Top of the wish list for any brand owner is global brand integrity. The ever increasing demands for one color standard across geographies and packaging substrates ring loud, and now Flint Group has created the solution that can truly and reliably meet the color management needs of all stakeholders in the packaging supply chain.
VIVO is a digital solution with its foundations reaching back to 2010 when Flint Group began to build the essential elements of a robust and dynamic Colour Communication platform and service model.
It is truly innovative and unique in several ways:
- The inks, centrally manufactured, identical and consistent, ensuring ink recipes are applicable across multiple customer sites and regions.
- The service provision is also centralized in the Global Colour Centre, which creates, distributes and manages color, 24/7, across all four major print technologies; paper and board, flexible packaging, sheetfed and with narrow web working on similar concept for launch later in 2016.
- The digital communication platform, containing multiple software tools and digital downloads, all available via secure web-based access to brand owners and converters.
Stuart Duffy, Flint Group sales director - business services, packaging and narrow web division says, “Flint Group’s core business remains focused on supplying high performing inks, coatings and consumables to our global packaging converter partners, and VIVO, meaning “alive” in Spanish, has been developed to complement that core business by addressing the needs of brand owners and our print partners to deliver global color integrity.
We have been overwhelmed by the positive reaction from our customers and international brand owners as our suite of solutions brings color to life through several channels. In real terms we are able to create deliverable consistent color management services throughout the entire color work flow, on a global level, and that’s not only very exciting, it’s a real breakthrough.
We will be demonstrating a small element of VIVO at drupa on our stand in hall 8a, customers can experience real time digital color management for themselves. We’ll be delighted to discuss our entire VIVO Colour Solutions in greater detail. We expect to be very busy!”
