Esko and Highcon: a powerful digital duo for the packaging industry

Packaging Solutions

Esko and Highcon have expanded their cooperation with an OEM agreement. Highcon will distribute, install and support the Esko CAD digital front end (DFE) software as complement to the Highcon Euclid. This combined solution is available immediately on a worldwide basis.

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 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 technology 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.