New Module for QuadTech Web Viewing System

SUSSEX, WI—January 7, 2014—QuadTech Inc., announces the availability of its new TouchRegister module for use with the QuadTech Web Viewing System. The system enables fast and accurate register setting for CI flexo presses.

The TouchRegister module is available as an option and adds functionality to the Web Viewing System by bringing up to 12 colors into register automatically, saving time and waste. Typically, bringing a CI press into register manually can take 15 minutes with hundreds of meters of substrate wasted.

The Web Viewing System can capture a predetermined register mark (or other suitable image) for each color and display them on the monitor while the press is stopped. The operator then adjusts the positions of the dots on the monitor. When the press is restarted, TouchRegister automatically brings the press into perfect register, to a tolerance of 50 microns. The ability to make adjustments with the press stopped dramatically reduces start-up waste.

Once in register, CI presses tend not to drift out of register, and the Web Viewing System can detect print faults before they can be seen by the human eye, up to an optical magnification of 16 times. Register can also be adjusted at any time during the print run.

"For converters, addressing the issues of make-ready time and waste directly impacts profit margins and the bottom line," said Randy Freeman, QuadTech's general manager of packaging. "By adding TouchRegister to the Web Viewing System production, efficiency and profitability are immediately addressed—and many companies can find they have more press time available for additional jobs."

About QuadTech
QuadTech Inc. is the world's leading innovator of advanced color and inspection technology for the printing industry. Founded in 1979, QuadTech sells its automated auxiliary control systems in more than 100 countries to the web offset newspaper and commercial markets, packaging and converting markets, and publication gravure market. Headquartered in Sussex, WI, QuadTech maintains a worldwide network of sales and service operations, and is proud to be registered ISO 9001:2008 DNV. QuadTech is a subsidiary of Quad/Graphics, one of the largest and most technologically advanced printers and multichannel solutions providers in the world.

Source: QuadTech Inc.