In-line inspection is proving to be an important trend in offset printing, according to Elphick. He says that when the CCC plant burned down, he had an opportunity to build a plant specifically to address the needs of the pharmaceutical community. One of the problems the CCC team noted time and time again when there was a quality problem and if it had anything to do with copy, human error was to blame during a proofreading action of the job whether it was on the press or in plate making. “Something was always overlooked by the human eye,” he says. When mistakes occur, pharmaceutical companies want effective corrective actions that you can prove were effective months later. The in-line vision systems on the KBA presses and CCC’s gluer allow the company to eliminate the mistakes. “The Qualtronic S is taking a snapshot of every sheet at 18,000 sheets per hour, and will identify any deviations to the proof sheet that we put in place,” adds Elphick. “The glue machine is taking all boxes out, in process, that might have faulty glue lines or unreadable bar codes, which minimizes the amount of complaints and broken copy.”
- Companies:
- KBA North America
- Mark Andy