Artios CAD structural design software for packaging Kaleidoscope and Backstage graphics software

Design, Manufacturing and Communication for Packaging

ArtiosCAD is the world's most popular structural design software for packaging. With dedicated tools specifically designed for packaging professionals for structural design, product development, virtual prototyping and manufacturing, ArtiosCAD increases productivity throughout your company.
ArtiosCAD is the ideal product for all corrugated and folding carton designers. Artios CAD's Design Modules are the best there are today.

The design and drafting tools of ArtiosCAD include functions that structural designers need to get their job done accurately and efficiently.
The tool alignment and snapping features provide graphical feedback, helping both experienced and new users immediately become more productive.
Complete 3D integration allows for quick prototyping of designs and presentations, eliminating communication errors and reducing design review cycles.

ArtiosCAD's layout and tooling design features can be used to create plate layouts and die tooling – optimized for the production equipment that will be used in manufacturing. The integrated database and reporting features enhance communication within your company as well as with external suppliers. ArtiosCAD's Adobe® Illustrator® plugins truly create the first round-trip workflow for structural and graphic designers.

Key benefits

Superior drafting tools increase designer productivity
Smart Standards save time and reduce errors
3D modeling and design provide fast prototyping and presentations
Powerful and efficient layout and tooling design
Relational database offers flexible library searches and reports

Kaleidoscope Device-independent colour engine

Kaleidoscope is a superior tool for absolute colour accuracy. It maximizes colour consistency, predictability & repeatability in every stage of pre-production. Kaleidoscope is an integrated colour system in every module of Esko Software Suite 7.

Kaleidoscope excels in colour management of special colours such as Pantone and house/designer colours.

Kaleidoscope's colour management combines CMYK (colorimetric) profiles with patented special colour (spectral) profiles. Special colours are individually profiled and stored in a database, resulting in excellent special colour matching for digital proofing.

Kaleidoscope is also the ideal solution for multi colour process profiling.

Kaleidoscope dramatically reduces cost in adopting digital printing:

Waste reduction
Reduced press setup
Reduced prepress time to prepare jobs for digital

A Smart workflow server, on a professional mission

BackStage maximizes productivity, repeatability and consistency in any workflow. This client-server software is about a lot more than just background tasks executing, it is about winning time and money and there are many ways to do that. BackStage tools focus on these main concepts:

automate wherever possible, so jobs will process faster and errors are reduced dramatically!
avoid double entry

Control, information, security, standard technologies

The BackStage Pilot client application, used for all control and monitoring, can be run from any Mac and Windows client in a network. Depending on their user access rights, operators or customer service staff will be able to manage Job orders, launch background server tasks on files, open files in any local applications, or just monitor the status of files or Job-orders. As in all Esko Software Suite's components, the latest standard technologies are used: Adobe PDF, XML, XMP, JDF, JMF...

Small, Medium, Large, Extra Large? BackStage comes in all sizes

Because BackStage has many modules, it is easy to tailor it to your current needs and to add tools and features that your company may require in the future. And whatever the segment of this industry, BackStage could be

a plug-in server for only 1 Adobe® Illustrator® user (the server component of a DeskPack solution)
a prepress server, in charge of PDF writing or e-mailing 3D designs
a blackbox graphical engine, supporting a business system serving tens of thousands of worldwide users per day