Web Presses Get Register Systems At Newspaper Firm

Wegener Grafische Groep has decided to equip all its web-fed newspaper presses with 80 Q I Press Controls IRS cut-off and sidelay register systems.

Wegener Grafische Groep has decided to equip all its web-fed newspaper presses with 80 Q I Press Controls IRS cut-off and sidelay register systems.

Q I Press Controls won the order because Wegener, a tabloid newspaper producer, had the desire to maintain its position for the printing, folding and cut-off quality of its full-colour tabloid newspapers.

Contrary to broadsheet production, it is far more common for tabloid production to require the article layout (particularly photographs) to spread from a left-hand to a right-hand page, said Q I Press Controls.

The positions of the two halves of the image on the printed web are sometimes so far apart that it takes the operators an effort to get the two halves to fit properly ('false panorama') at all times.

To avoid the risk of possible inconsistencies in images spread over the spine when producing tabloids, Wegener tried to find an instrument that would react much sooner and much more accurately than the press operators.

Therefore, since the last Ifra trade fair in Amsterdam, intensive discussions took place between the management of Wegener and Q I Press Controls.

Those talks resulted in the order, which will have to be completed in a fully functional state in five Wegener printing plants by the end of May.

The 80 IRS cameras will monitor and control the cut-off and sidelay register (via turner bars) on all the Wegener printing group newspaper presses.

After printing, every full-width web and every ribbon position will be recognised by an IRS camera, which uses Q I Press Controls' micromarks and processor and servo technology to check the web for early signs of deviations and corrects it immediately.

Wegener's KBA Commander and Colora coldset presses in Apeldoorn, Best, The Hague, Enschede and Nijmegen will be equipped with the IRS technology this spring.

The existing Commander presses in Best, which are going to be replaced by Wifag presses between the autumn of 2008 and late 2009, will also be fitted out with Q I Press Controls' IRS technology.

Wegener has already started its campaign to turn its tabloid productions in to top products and does not intend to make an exception for presses, which are going to be replaced in the near future, said Q I Press Controls.

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