QuadTech Inc.

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QuadTech has formed a partnership with the Gallus Group to provide closed-loop color control and color measurement systems for its offset, flexo and gravure presses. Utilizing QuadTech technology, Gallus customers can quicken makeready and offer ultimate print quality and productivity, with inline color management.

QuadTech will exhibit its color and inspection technology at Converting and Package Printing Expo (CPP), co-located with PRINT 13, at booth 2472. Under the theme of "The Power of Better,” QuadTech offers packaging, commercial and newspaper print markets an extensive range of automated press controls that improve performance, productivity and output.

The modern in-line, spectrophotometric, integrated color measurement and inspection system has come of age. It reaches quality targets faster, reducing start-up material waste; it gives reassurance of accuracy throughout the production run; it provides a means of minimizing labor costs. This technology, therefore, is an essential factor in an industry where getting perfect results first time, every time is not a luxury, but a given.

News on suppliers to the packaging printing industry, including items on Blue Dog Bakery and Hornall Anderson; Lebensbaum and Innovia Films; PIA's InterTech Technology Awards; UPM Raflatac; and Michelman.

Printing Industries of America has announced the recipients of the 2012 InterTech Technology Awards, with a total of 12 innovative technologies selected to receive an InterTech star. The technologies receiving this prestigious award have been judged as truly innovative and are expected to advance the performance of the graphic communications industry.

QuadTech's Autotron 2600 Register Guidance System with ClearLogic is now a standard feature on Cerutti Packaging and Equipment's gravure packaging presses. This approval follows joint development tightly integrating the QuadTech Autotron register system into Cerutti’s press controls.

The cooperative effort ties together in-line spectral data obtained from QuadTech, ink formulation data from X-Rite, and ink dispensing technology from Huber Group. “We’re combining the advantages of in-line and off-line color measurement to significantly reduce press downtime and waste,” said Randy Freeman, QuadTech’s vice president and general manager of packaging.

QuadTech and Windmöller & Hölscherhave (W&H) have completed an agreement that combines W&H’s EASY-SET lighting and cameras, and QuadTech's processing and algorithms to achieve true 100 percent inspection capability, via the W&H EVI interface.

QuadTech claims its new SpectralCam HD colour measurement system could make offline colour measurement of web-fed packaging film "a thing of the past". The new system’s high definition viewing capability is said to facilitate easy on-the-fly detection of dot abnormalities such as pin-holing, bridging, doughnuts and halos. Images are captured at 2,500dpi and made instantly accessible through the Icon user interface, "so that dot quality detail can be analyzed by the human eye as soon as ink is transferred to the substrate". "The operator has reassurance that dot abnormalities will be detected to a much higher standard than was