Colour Register Systems Enhance Newspaper Quality

Neue Luzerner Zeitung AG has a printing plant in Adligenswil where it prints the Neue Luzerner Zeitung, several regional daily newspapers, weekly newspapers and newspapers.

Neue Luzerner Zeitung AG is a company of LZ Medien Holding and has a printing plant in Adligenswil where it prints the Neue Luzerner Zeitung, several regional daily newspapers, weekly newspapers and newspapers for other publishing companies.

All six full colour towers of the WIFAG OF 370 GTD presses will be equipped with a total of 35 IRS scanners to control colour, cut-off and side-lay register.

The management of LZ Medien Holding, including Jurg Weber, the company's general manager and Anton Nussbaumer, the deputy director, has made a conscious choice after a thoroughly investigation of register systems from several suppliers.

The most important reasons for the company to choose QI Press Controls' system, are its proven technology of the intelligent register system, recommendations of partners Wifag and ABB, the experience of QI Press Controls with Wifag presses and the good return-on-investment, said QI.

Nussbaumer emphasised that he was impressed of how QI Press Controls thinks along with customers on a high level.

Zehnder Print AG in Rickenbach (Switzerland) became convinced that its Goss Universal 50 presses could perform much better with QI Press Controls' IRS register system than with the previously installed system.

The four four-high towers from 2000 and two new four-high towers will be equipped with 12 IRS scanners for colour register.

At the printing plant in Rickenbach, the two daily newspapers - Wall Street Journal Europe and International Herald Tribune - are printed, together with 32 weekly newspapers and several periodicals.

With those large orders and other installations in Vernier, Aarau, Basel, Sion, Lausanne, Liestal, Neuenburg and Schaffhausen, QI Press Controls has built up an impressive installed base in Switzerland, it believes.

Kamiel van Riel from QI Press Controls, said: "Switzerland serves as an example for the rest of the world.

More printers react to the heavier demands for print quality on the newspaper market.".

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