DeskPack turns Adobe® Illustrator® and Photoshop® into full-fledged packaging applications with a set of modules that fits any prepress environment. Deskpack is a collection of packaging prepress plugins for Adobe® Illustrator® and Adobe® Photoshop®. With these plugins, Adobe® Illustrator® and Photoshop® become full-fledged packaging prepress applications. Using Esko’s pre-production knowledge, you can now boost productivity and reduce errors while working in your favorite design application.
Plug-ins for any prepress environment Home Page - https://www.esko.com/en/products/deskpack
The DeskPack plugins fit any prepress environment. From importing structural design files (CAD data), over trapping production files, all the way up to creating repetitions of print-ready production files, DeskPack offers the best packaging solution to get the job done. The majority of Adobe® Illustrator® prepress modules will improve your capabilities of designing the right packaging for your products, while others are specifically created to support Adobe® Photoshop®.
Adobe® Illustrator® prepress plugins:
- DeskPack Essentials for Illustrator: offers essential prepress functionality: adding barcodes, do preflighting, adding white underprint, inspect your files using quality control filters, ...
- Dynamic Barcodes: generates dynamic barcodes with assured printability
- PowerLayout for Illustrator: offers dedicated step and repeat functionality, combined with PDF import and the ability to add dynamic marks
- PowerTrapper for Illustrator: offers very powerful trapping and white underprinting functionality
- Dynamic Content: offers dedicated dynamic content functionality with dynamic barcodes, dynamic tables and dynamic information panels
- Dynamic VDP: allows you to easily create and work with Variable Data Printing jobs (VDP) on a digital printing press
Adobe® Photoshop® packaging plugins:
- Flexo Tools: dedicated flexo functionality in Photoshop
- Ink Tools: functionality for preparing images with spot color separations
These prepress plugins will improve any packaging pre-press process by boosting the productivity of standard Adobe® Illustrator® & Photoshop® workstations. All of our Photoshop® & Illustrator® packaging prepress plugins are suited for both Mac and PC. Discover all the Deskpack benefits!
Prepress in Adobe® Illustrator®
- Prepress operators can produce higher quality jobs in a shorter time.
- DeskPack plug-ins boost the prepress productivity of standard Adobe® Illustrator® workstations.
- Errors are detected as early as possible, reducing the cost to a minimum.
- All DeskPack modules have a proven ROI.
- All plug-ins have the Adobe® look and feel, there is a short learning curve and low training cost.
- With an increasing number of short print runs, DeskPack takes away the pressure from the prepress department.
- Tight integration with other Esko solutions: structural design, 3D visualization, Automation Engine.
- Software subscriptions offer distinct benefits: you have access to the latest version, you can adapt your subscription to your workload, there’s no large investment, and there are no maintenance fees…
Supported Operating Systems:
- Windows 10
- Windows 8.1
- Windows 8
- Windows 7
Software requirements:
- DeskPack for Adobe® Photoshop® requires Adobe® Photoshop® CS6, CC 2014, CC 2015, CC 2015.5, or CC 2017.
- Adobe® Photoshop® CC 2017 is supported from 16.0.2. From 16.0.2 onwards, CC 2014 is no longer supported.
- DeskPack for Adobe® Illustrator® requires Adobe® Illustrator® CS6, CC 2014, CC 2015, CC 2015.3, or CC 2017.
- Adobe® Illustrator® CC 2017 is supported from 16.0.2. From 16.0.2 onwards, CC 2014 is no longer supported.
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