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Company: Advanced Vision Technology (AVT), www.avt-inc.com Product: The PrintVision/Orion What is it?: A 100-percent automatic inspection system and quality assurance for folding carton single pack applications. Features: • Inspects quality with a Linear CCD camera • Detects diecut and creasing faults and will eject defective blanks while collecting and stacking good ones • Can handle blanks of up to 17˝ at speeds up to 40,000 blanks per hour Company: Rotoflex International, www.rotoflex.com Product: VLI eDRIVE series What is it?: Inspection slitter/rewinders designed for consistency, low maintenance, lower tension, higher speeds, and easy job setup/operation. Features: • AC Vector Motor

AAA PRESS INT'L Digital and analog video inspection systems. Write 735, Visit www.aaapress.com, AccuWeb Web Width Monitor System makes width measurements for both acquisition and process control. It uses no moving parts and can detect almost any web material. Write 736, www.accuweb.com Advanced Vision Technology (AVT) Offers process control and 100 percent quality assurance solutions on-press or on-rewinder, including register and pressure control solutions, inline color management, barcode verification solutions and job quality data management. Write 737, www.avt-inc.com BST PRO MARK Premius Digital system provides automatic inspection and identification of print defects and color variations, register control on flexo CI presses, and

Exhibitors at Labelexpo Americas 2004 had plenty of web inspection equipment on display. LABELEXPO AMERICAS HAD many exhibitors showing off their web inspection equipment, but does a converter really need to purchase inspection equipment? Some say yes, if they want to keep their waste, cost, and production time under control. Web inspection has come a long way, and packagePRINTING took a look at the different makes and models of web viewing systems that were available at Labelexpo, and spoke with some of the customers that use them. Smile, you're on camera There are two major different kinds of web scan equipment—web inspection systems and

As evidenced by these application examples, package printers have put web inspection systems to work for a broad spectrum of reasons, from meeting customer or end-use requirements, to establishing a general competitive advantage, to achieving process efficiencies. See for yourself. By Susan Friedman, Editor Fast-forward for flexpack quality A general push toward quality assurance has taken hold in the flexible packaging segment, reports Koby Shtaierman, vice president, marketing and sales for AVT. He hears more printer requests to see the web at all times, to provide process control and quality assurance for big-name brands such as Frito Lay and Coca Cola. Flexible

Sophistication across all levels of web inspection technology make it a manageable investment for package printers. By Susan Friedman Why buy a Mercedes when you can reliably, stylishly get from Point A to Point B in a Honda? The infusion of sophistication across all levels of web inspection technology makes this analogy ring true for many package printers' purchasing decisions. "The largest base for video web inspection technology will continue to be simple, inexpensive video systems for general web viewing, while new image-based technology is being developed to bring value-added features to more sophisticated web printing processes," observes Paul Burrows, product application engineer at