From Image to Panorama

In the narrow-web market, Brian Tithecott, marketing manager for Focus Automation Systems, reports strong sales to pharmaceutical, health and beauty, and prime label printers with a need for high quality, and in the case of pharmaceutical printers, perfection in each impression.

"Wide-web printers," he notes in comparison, "are looking at inspection to improve yields. The system on-press must quickly identify problems, solve those problems in real time, and mark the suspect material so printers can get on with producing good product."