Expertise from the past, tools for the future
Workflow management
As we have ample knowledge and experience of the world of both printers, brands and retail consultancy, we can support and guide our clients with workflow management. We can do all that because firstly, we have our specialists, and secondly, we can make packaging processes more efficient and more orderly by developing automated solutions. Artwork Connect is a ‘tangible’ example. You can use this tool to manage all your artworks (including different versions), from an easy accessible and central location.
The proof is in the process
Artwork Connect
In today’s product landscape, it is essential to reduce the time to market to a minimum. Nonetheless, a speedy packaging process should obviously never adversely affect brand consistency: the quality, the image and the recognisability of your brand in general, and more specifically, the designs. Artwork Connect gives you control of both the brand consistency and the time to market, with more brand equity as a result. All artworks in a single, orderly tool. Use it to your advantage for:
- 50% shorter time to market
- 100% brand consistency
- 30% fewer mistakes
- Everything stored safely
- Work from a single source
People and work
Project support
If your packaging process is complicated, or your commission is a substantial one, we can offer you the option of assigning dedicated specialists to your project to ensure that you benefit as much as possible from our expertise and our technical know-how. Our specialists support and coordinate our clients throughout the design-to-print/publish chain of the packaging process. For example, we have:
- Project managers and project coordinators
- Packaging specialists
- IT Consultants
- Colour specialists
Let’s press on
Assessing printed work
Here at Volkers, we do everything we can to relieve you of your workload, to reduce the risks as much as possible and to get the most from the finished result. To ensure the predictability and reliability of the colour quality, our printing specialists travel around Europe, visiting printers’ production locations. There, they take press samples to check whether the result matches the approved colour proof of the design. They can also gauge and adjust the technical specifications of printing presses, so that the lithographers can, in turn, be 100% certain that they are preparing the right printing plates.
C is for Connection
About us and our packaging
Volkers’ role in the graphic chain is to connect. We aim to operate as a partner right from the start of the design stage. We guide our clients, helping them to keep their grip on their brand identity, completion time and version management. Before production begins on the packaging, Volkers will make suggestions and contribute ideas for optimal alignment, coordinating all the players in the chain, and consequently reducing failure costs and optimising the time to market.