QuadTech Inc., a world leader in press control technology that sells its automated auxiliary control systems for web offset newspaper and commercial applications, packaging and gravure publications in more than 100 countries through facilities located throughout Europe, Japan, China, Singapore, India and the Americas, has announced that it has purchased Vigitek, a leading designer and manufacturer of 100 per cent print inspection systems. The acquisition will improve offerings of print quality solutions for the packaging industry by combining QuadTech’s expertise in advanced register guidance systems with Vigitek’s state-of-the-art print defect detection systems.
The QX-100 is Vigitek’s 100 per cent Colour Vision Inspection system Ireland based Vigitek are pioneers in print defect detection technology based on continuous 100 per cent inspection of the web for all kinds of printing like gravure, flexo, web offset, sheetfed, labels and corrugated packaging for all kinds of configurations (roll-to-roll, roll-to-sheet and sheet-to-sheet). Their solutions are considered the best in the industry. In our last issue, we had given details of their systemused by Uflex, India’s largest flexible packaging company, at their new
Jammu plant. Their technology uses a lines can system that utilises high-resolution 3CCD cameras with optical prism and customised software that runs very complex detection algorithms. This technology will eminently complement QuadTech’s well-known Aututron Packaging
colour-to-colour registration technology. Vigitek will operate as a subsidiary of QuadTech and continue to function as a separate entity. QuadTech itself is a subsidiary of Quad/Graphics, the largest privately held printer in the Western Hemisphere. Both QuadTech and Vigitek are exhibiting at drupa 2008.
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