In 2002, Esco was formed by the merger of Nianbaco Esko-Graphics and Purup Eskofot. In 2006, it was renamed as Esco Esko.

In autumn of 2005, all the shares of Esko were acquired by AXCEL A/S, a Danish private equity investment company.

In 2007, Esco acquired its main competitor in the packaging prepress market, Artwork Systems Group (AWS), and spent10.96 billion euros to buy 76.69% of the shares of AWS, and changed its name to Esko-Artwork；; ;

2011100% of the ESCO shares have been transferred to Danaher. 20 12 1 month, the name changed back to Esco Esko.