CMYUK appointed as strategic UK channel for Esko

Print Solutions

CMYUK has signed a significant UK agreement with Esko.

CMYUK will now take responsibility for new mainland UK sales of Esko hardware and software to the sign and digital market. Esko will continue to service its key account and legacy customer base. Esko’s engineering and support teams will continue to supply after sales service and support for all system sales.

The primary motivation for this agreement is to combine the complementary strengths of both parties to further increase Esko’s market share in the UK, and to bring a broader portfolio of next generation print productivity solutions to the UK market. In order to fulfil these objectives, the two companies have also begun work on a jointly developed showroom, adjoining the existing CMYUK Demo and Training Centre in Shrewsbury.

Robin East of CMYUK explained, ‘I genuinely believe the next step for the forward thinking wide format business is the complete integration of all pre-press, printing and finishing operations into one seamlessly connected production process. It is what our customers are asking us for; it is what we wanted in our portfolio; and ultimately there is no one in the market better positioned and better able to deliver on those requirements than Esko.’

Karsten Nygard, regional business director, North and Indirect, of Esko. is equally positive: ‘All at Esko are extremely excited with this new collaboration. By combining our product and technical strengths with CMYUK’s proven abilities in sales and marketing, we will be even better positioned to further develop Esko sales and presence in the UK market.’

The technology will be on show from April onwards in CMYUK’s existing demonstration facility. The extended facility will open its doors in September 2017.

Robin added, ‘The new showroom will feature the full range of Kongsberg cutting tables, and a complete suite of Esko workflow software – all of which will be geared towards giving customers an enhanced experience offering a live ‘real world’ demonstration of complete production facility automation.

‘We have intentionally chosen to integrate the new Esko showroom as an expansion to our existing Demo and Training Centre because we want to showcase a full end to end production facility to our customers.

‘We will be printing on Mimaki and EFI Vutek printers and finishing on Kongsberg tables, and the entire process will be managed by Esko software. It will be a revelation for customers as we will be able to demonstrate how they can amalgamate their entire print production into one single process.’