Packaging & Print Intelligence · Engineering the future of print & packaging
The Intelligence Behind Every Print.
Every printed product begins with an idea. CMYK2, the packaging and print specialist of the Owllys group, connects the artwork, premedia, prepress, colour, production and packaging work that turns it into production-ready output, so creative intent reaches the press intact.
For commercial printers, packaging converters and brand owners. Seven products · four plates · one print lifecycle, from brief to shelf and from estimate to outcome.
The idea is the easy part. Getting it to press, in register, is not.
Turning an idea into production-ready artwork and consistent, high-quality output takes expertise, precision and coordination across many processes. Yet artwork, prepress, colour management, production and packaging workflows often remain disconnected, creating complexity, rework, delays and inconsistency.
CMYK2, by Owllys, is built to change that.
From artwork and premedia to colour intelligence, prepress automation and production optimisation, CMYK2 connects the processes and technology that turn creative intent into production reality.
- Print & packaging expertise
- Production engineering
- Digital workflows
- Advanced AI
CMYK2
- CMYK
- The four-colour printing model every press, plate and proof is built on: cyan, magenta, yellow and key black. It ties the brand to the work.
- ² · squared
- The next generation of print technology: intelligent workflows, automation and AI, applied to every plate. Creative intent × production precision.
- Four plates, four stages
- We organise the print lifecycle the way a press does: four plates, each carrying one stage of the work, each set at its own screen angle.
Four plates, four stages
Create
Artwork & premediaFrom the brief to finished artwork and every variant of it.
NPD, Packaging StudioMatch
Prepress, colour & complianceMaking the file match the press, the brand colour and the law.
Packaging Studio, APMSYield
Production & pressGetting more good sheets out of every press hour.
PressPilot, PressConnectKey numbers
The business of printThe key plate holds the detail. The key numbers hold the business.
Print Estimation, Operix PrintOne web of paper, four printing units.
Follow the idea through the press: created as artwork, matched to the plate, the colour and the law, yielded as good sheets, and keyed into the numbers that run the business.
Artwork & premedia
From the brief to finished artwork and every variant of it.
Prepress, colour & compliance
Making the file match the press, the brand colour and the law.
The business of print
The key plate holds the detail. The key numbers hold the business.
Seven products, ganged on one sheet.
Each product owns one part of the lifecycle and hands off to the next. Figures on the cards are design targets: what each product is engineered to deliver, not results we are reporting.
NPD
Pack concept directions from a brief, composed onto your dieline.
Packaging Studio
A browser-based packaging artwork editor with prepress built in.
APMS
Artwork compliance, proofing and approvals for every SKU and every market.
Print Estimation
Deterministic print and packaging estimates, with a margin guard on every quote.
Operix Print
Print-shop operations on one system, from prepress job to dispatch.
PressPilot
Finite-capacity press scheduling with a real constraint solver.
PressConnect
Shop-floor data from any press, turned into one event stream and honest OEE.
Early partner programme
Printers, converters and brand owners: shape the CMYK2 roadmap with us.
Join the programmeEvery job should make the next one better.
ERPs record what happened. CMYK2 is designed to decide what runs next, and to learn from every press.
Brief to shelf. Estimate to outcome.
Packaging runs as one loop: a brief becomes concepts, artwork and variants, passes compliance and approval, and leaves as a print-ready PDF/X-4, ready for the next brief.
Print runs as the other: the estimate becomes a promised date, the press run becomes floor actuals, and the actuals re-price the next quote. Every job teaches the next one to protect your margin.
Sequence by changeover, not by arrival.
Crore-rupee presses burn hours on wash-ups, plate changes and re-registers, because jobs run in the order they arrived rather than the order that is cheapest to set up. Try it: put the same six jobs in a different order.
- Biscuit carton
- Dairy sleeve
- Spice pouch
- Tea box
- Pharma insert
- Premium rigid box
A wash-up is counted whenever a lighter ink follows a darker one; each costs 25 minutes here. PressPilot uses your own changeover table (substrate, ink, plate, colour, coating, board) and a CP-SAT solver rather than this single rule.
Standards, not slogans.
Print is unforgiving, so we name the standards the products are built on. Ask us to show any of them working against your own files.
Implemented in the products
Standards and methods the product code implements and tests against.
Built for
Shop-floor protocols the connectors are designed around.
Roadmap
Next on the list. Listed separately so it is never mistaken for a current feature.
Shape the roadmap with us.
CMYK2 is built with the people who run presses and launch packs. Early partners decide what gets built next, and see their own numbers measured before and after.
- Commercial printersSheet-fed and web: estimating, scheduling and the shop-floor numbers.
- Packaging convertersFolding carton, labels, flexible and corrugated: artwork to dispatch.
- Brand owners & packaging teamsArtwork, variants, compliance and launches across markets.
What early partners get
- A say in what gets built next, and in what order
- Early access, read-only first: nothing changes in your systems on day one
- A baseline agreed in writing, so results are measured on your numbers
- Your data stays yours, with deletion when a pilot ends
What we ask
- One process owner who knows the work
- A sample of real jobs, artwork or floor data
- An hour a fortnight to review what we've built
One of five specialist brands.
CMYK2 is the packaging and print specialist of Owllys. Each sister brand is built deep into its own industry, and all of them share the group's engineering foundations.
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The parent technology groupowllys.com ↗ (opens in a new tab)Every print starts as an idea. Let's get yours to press, in register.
Tell us where your process leaks: the concept round, the artwork rebuild, the preflight surprise, the wash-up or the quote that lost money.