The company produces plates for the printing of various magazines including popular titles, Life and Home, Cleo, Cosmopolitan, Praew, Di-chan and many more.
Kanok Silp has been a Creo customer since 1995, and recently decided to make the switch from computer-to-film (CTF) to a Creo computer-to-plate (CTP) solution.
According to Pathan Wangthamboon, Founder and President of Kanok Silp, the company has been watching CTP for years.
He feels that Creo has proven itself in the global marketplace. “I believe that time builds experience,” says Mr. Pathan. “Creo started with thermal technology and they only do what they’re really good at. Other technology has come and gone over the years. Thermal has stood the test of time, and I am certain that Creo played a large role in that.”
Over the years, Creo has consistently explored new solutions in the quest to deliver more value to customers, increase performance in production environments, and enhance the cost-effectiveness of adoption.
After analysing technologies such as violet CTP, Creo concluded that thermal technology provided the greatest efficiencies and the best investment value.
Creo strongly believes that the future of CTP lies in the combination of thermal imaging technology and processless plates, which can deliver significant economic benefits to printers and trade shops.
“Creo has earned my trust, and the merger with Scitex has put the company in an even better position to serve the needs of its customers.” continues Mr. Pathan Wangthamboon. With the installation of its Creo Trendsetter 800 II Quantum platesetter, Kanok Silp enjoys several benefits that CTF devices cannot provide.
“In the prepress business, work does not end with the film or plate. We must also provide our customers with first-rate service and quality,” says Mr. Pathan.
“Quality is our number one priority. With the new CTP installation, we are able to deliver quality such as superior detail in highlight and midtone areas.”
Kanok Silp drives the Trendsetter with Creo’s PDF workflow management system, Prinergy. Prinergy comprehensively organises page processing, proofing, CTF, and CTP. “With Prinergy workflow, our productivity has skyrocketed. We are able to RIP an entire eight-up imposition and output a four-colour set in less than 12 minutes. Before, it took at least a couple of hours,” states Mr. Tanis Wangthamboon, Production Manager of Kanok Silp.
“We had a 210mm x 292mm, four-colour, 376-page job, and it only took about 10 hours to output the plates. Without our Trendsetter and Prinergy, it would have taken at least two to three days to clear the job.”
The Creo Trendsetter 800 II Quantum uses the advanced SQUAREspot thermal imaging head, offering high throughput, efficient plate handling, ease-of-use, and highest quality. SQUAREspot also allows the company to take advantage of Creo Staccato screening and its high-fidelity and artifact-free image quality.
“The combination of SQUAREspot and Staccato has really amazed us. The colours are more vibrant and more saturated. Most of our jobs are for fashion magazines, so quality highlights and midtones are very important to us,” says Mr. Tanis.
“We are now able to reproduce exactly what our clients want, more consistently and accurately. The feedback from our printers is great. They love to print with CTP plates.”
Kanok Silp has also acquired a top-of-the-line Creo iQsmart3 scanner, equipped with an oXYgen DOT solution. The oXYgen DOT solution comprises two applications: oXYgen DOT and the oXYgen DOT Toolkit.
The oXYgen DOT application delivers high-quality copydot scanning, a new tone calibration, and digital descreening.
The oXYgen DOT Toolkit customises images for any purpose or output device, such as automatic registration, bitmap editing, resampling, tone calibration, digital descreening and more.
Together, they provide a complete copydot scanning solution, enabling a SOOM (Scan Once, Output Many) workflow for re-purposing halftone film for any output device, as many times as needed.
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