The World’s First In-Line Color & Ink Control System for Packaging Presses.
A Remarkably Simple Process.
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Efficiency Built-In with Profits in Mind.
Productivity Revolutionary & Reduced Waste
Your Diversify Substrate Offering
This system permanently eliminates the need to stop your press during a run to remove sections of printed substrate and manually measure colors to adjust ink recipes. By eliminating these practices you save both time and production materials.
Fast and accurate color consistency for virtually all types of packaging and substrates, including paper, cardboard, foil, and polyethylene/polypropylene films.
Flexibility to Meet Your Packaging Needs
Our solution guarantees 100% detection of color inaccuracy for your entire print product, sheet, or web throughout the print run for both wide or narrow gravure, offset, flexo, and digital presses at any resolution flawlessly.
Optimal Color Quality & Ink Savings
QuadTechÂŽ industry experts evaluate and optimize your ink database so you can leverage our over 30 years experience in color science and technology and enable your recipes to generate the ultimate in color quality and ink savings.
Designed for Growth Now & in the Future
Our hardware and software solutions are easily integrated however specific your printing process or color inaccuracies. You can incorporate only the features you need without compromising the ability to add functionality in the future.
Intuitive Technology & Industry Leading Training
Education specialists and naturally intuitive software will ease your team’s transition to our technology and teach your personnel how to achieve optimal results.
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Once your press run begins, our industry leading QuadTech® Color Measurement System with SpectralCam™ will continuously measure the color accuracy on your entire print product, sheet, or web throughout the printing process at full press speeds based on your customer’s defined color targets.
Diverse Press Compatibility
Detect color inaccuracies for both wide or narrow gravure, offset, flexo, and digital presses at any resolution.
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Performance Processing: Multiple Intel® Pentium® CPUs Operating System: Microsoft® Windows® Communication Means: Gigabit ethernet Backup: UPS Environmental Protection: On-board climate control
System Requirements Voltage: 100V-240V +/-10% Power Consumption: 7 kVA Frequency: 50 or 60 Hz Phase: Single phase
Process Technologies Cameras: Up to 8 x 3CCD linescan (camera stand provided) Lighting: Water-cooled or air-cooled LED
Environment Temperature Range: 5° C-50° C (41° F-122° F) Maximum Humidity: 90% non-condensing
Interfaces Press Interface Board (PIB) Modem for Remote Diagnostics
User Interface Type: TFT touch screen Location: Panel mount or suspended on an extendible arm Operating System: Microsoft® Windows®
Certifications Meets CE Standards Pentium and Intel are registered trademarks of Intel Corporation. Microsoft and Windows are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation.
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All color inconsistencies, inaccuracies, and defects are automatically documented and reported in L*a*b* and ∆E values through the QuadTech Data CentralŽColorimetric Reports software and a .CxF file is created.
Administrative Insight
Comprehensive statistical reports document product quality, color reproduction, and press performance from live press data.
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Industry Standard Compliances GRACoL System Brunner Global Standard® ISO 12647-2
Color ∆E & L*a*b* Report See if print run measurements fall within expected color gamut
Color Print Curve Production Summary View of L*a*b*, ∆E, and key print attributes with tone value curves
Color Production Summary Report Statistics including L*a*b* and ∆E data for process and special colors
L*a*b* Data Export Generate individual surface export data files containing L*a*b* data
Formulate
The .CxF file is sent to X-Rite’s Ink Formulation Software (IFS) and a new ink recipe is instantly generated to resolve the color inconsistency, inaccuracy, and defect issue.
Rapid Performance
Ink recipe formulation at full press speeds.
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QuadTech Colorimetric Reports L*a*b* & ∆E for Process Color Solids L*a*b* & ∆E for 2-Color RGB Solid Overprints L*a*b* & ∆E for 3-Color CMY Solid Overprints L*a*b* & ∆E for 3-Color CMY Tone Value Overprints L*a*b* & ∆E for Paper Tone Value Increase (TVI) for Process Colors Densities for Process Colors
Dispense
As the press run continues, the new IFS ink recipe is sent instantly to our QuadTech Digital Ink System, which accurately doses and injects the ink on press.
Time & Material Savings
Eradicate open ink fountain contamination problems saving ink, substrates, and press operator maintenance indefinitely.
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Performance Maximum Operating Press Speed: 3,500 ft/min (18 m/sec)
System Requirements Voltage: 400-480 VAC Frequency: 50-60 Hz Phase: Three phase
Environment Temperature Range: 32째-122째F (0째-50째C) Humidity: 20-95% non-condensing
Presses Press Types: Web offset Press Compatibility: All major press models
Certifications NFPA 79 Compliant Meets CE Standards
Options Main Operator Control Station, 22": Operator control for one press Local Operator Control Station, 8": Operator control for one unit Ink Reserve Tank: Connects removable totes to QuadTech Digital Ink System Ink Zone Preset: Sets ink levels by virtue of prepress image file Ink Metrics Reporting: Reports ink usage Specifications subject to change without notice.
The World’s First In-Line Color & Ink Control System for Packaging Presses.
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