Decreasing Set-Up Time On Newspaper Presses

Edited by the Printingtalk editorial team Apr 6, 2007

Quadtech will be attending Nexpo 2007 in Orlando, Florida from April 21 - 24 on stand 1029 to discuss products that have been specifically designed for newspaper presses.

Quadtech will be attending Nexpo 2007 in Orlando, Florida from April 21 - 24 on stand 1029 to discuss products that have been specifically designed for newspaper presses.

The company will be exhibiting the Icon platform that is claimed to decrease set-up times for jobs through operation from a central terminal.

Icon is said to be key to making printing presses as efficient as possible with easier press operations and reduced job change-over times.

Quadtech added that Icon, with its open architecture, provides complete integration of auxiliary press systems so that printers will be able to eliminate errors and minimise variations in their printing processes.

The Quadtech Register Guidance System with Multicam and the company's Ribbon Control System with Multicam are claimed to provide register and ribbon control for newspaper presses.

The performance centres on the Multicam camera, which is designed specifically for the job in hand, rather than using 'off the shelf' imaging technology, said Quadtech.

Using the Multicam, which is said to search for register marks over a wider area of the web than most competing products, the system can identify and collect information from an array of patterns, including micro-sized marks that can be as small as 0.36mm (0.014").

The patterns are used to maintain circumferential, lateral and folder resignation at claimed web speeds up to 17.8 metres per second (3,500 feet per minute).

Karl Fritchen, Quadtech's president, said: "Quality standards in newspaper printing have been driven higher due, in part, to the latest in press and auxiliary technologies.

In the future, lean manufacturing will increasingly be used to remove wasteful activities from the printing process, producing a better product for the same price.

This trend will be supported by increased automation, using not only digital job tickets, but also integrated controls, provided by such technologies as the Icon platform.".