Quality Vision

We're all eyes

To help ensure consistency and compliance, Nosco recently installed Heidelberg's Prinect Inspection Control on its Speedmaster XL 105, installed in it's Waukegan facility in 2008.

Visual inspection technology, in general, is highly beneficial to printers that serve sensitive markets, allowing them to detect and correct defects early in the process, thus avoiding the potential for costly reprinting, loss of business, litigation, fines, and other costs. Developed primarily to address the need in pharmaceutical, specialty, and package printing for zero-defect production, Heidelberg's Prinect Inspection Control is an internally integrated in-line printing and material defect detection system that is designed to locate printing and material defects—hickeys, marking, scumming, scratching, etc.—on every printed sheet as it passes through the coating unit of the press. Defects are captured in real time by comparing every printed sheet with a digital reference. Upon detection, the system provides audible and visual alerts and inserts a tab in the delivery pile to indicate the first occurrence of the defect. If the defect clears itself, an additional tab is inserted into the delivery pile to mark the last defective sheet.