A Little QC Goes a Long Way

QC across the board

Ben Robesin, account manager, Stork Prints BV, comments, “The starting point of each antenna is the printing, [whether it’s] etching, plating, or direct printing. The right configuration of your printing equipment is very important.”

Michael Harris, CEO, Innovative Equipment, adds that while improvements in Gen 2 materials have been significant, there must be a quality control step to qualify what is ultimately produced and shipped to ensure 100 percent functionality, he explains. “While lower defect rates make placing inlays on every label, then doctoring out the defects, more palatable, the extra inspection step is still 100 percent necessary.” The cost savings here, he says, is the value of the base label substrate that ends up in the trash. “It is lower due to the reduced number of defective inlays doctored out,” he says.