Zooming Toward Quality

Karen Huber, director, global sales at PC Industries, Glenview, IL, defines this next level as 100 percent inspection, a contrasting concept to 100 percent monitoring, in which the camera can monitor the entire web via different functions.

"Most printers today cannot justify the costs of 100 percent inspection, but that doesn't mean they don't want it or need it," she claims. "Suppliers must find more economical ways of achieving this technology. In the meantime, video inspection or 100 percent web monitoring can easily do the job for most printers," Huber says, with the exception of pharmaceutical label printers under continuous FDA pressure to improve inspection processes.