The Highcon Euclid offers printers and converters design flexibility, and rapid speed to market, while eliminating costly production steps and reducing carbon footprint of folding carton production. Launched at Drupa 2012, the Euclid is installed at customer sites in Israel, the UK, Belgium, Africa and the US.

Today, Esko’s CAD software is already the standard for processing structural designs for production on the Highcon Euclid. It converts packaging structures to the finishing format required by the Euclid, which receives its CAD cutting and creasing information from ArtiosCAD prepared or converted DFX files.

With the new OEM agreement, the Highcon Euclid now offers an on-board software tool, the Highcon Light Editor, that allows Euclid operators to take full advantage of the benefits of digital technolImage removed by sender.ogy by editing crease and cut lines in the structural design of the job at the point of production, including the ability to incorporate last-minute changes. It also enables optimising of nicks by increasing or decreasing their size or adding or removing them; and adding, removing or editing stripping lines.

“We are proud of the opportunity to partner with Esko, incorporating their industry-leading technology into our game-changing digital converting solution,” said Eitan Varon, executive vice-president, Highcon. “We have been working with Esko since the beginning and are excited to extend this collaboration for the benefit of our existing and future customers.”

“This late-stage capability is especially important in an environment where run lengths and cycle times are compressed,” added Richard Deroo, product manager Structural Design at Esko. “Packaging converters accept files from a wide variety of sources, and it is essential that they have the ability to control final structures at the point of production to ensure a consistent quality product with limited waste and downtime.”