Frequently arising problems of production:

- Suboptimal adjusted printers deliver impure prints
- Unattractive appearance of products or waste included in delivery annoy customers
- Manual quality controls boost production costs

PRESS ASSESS - print to print
Measurement of print to print register outside the printing machine

Hardware

spectrophotometer for measuring colour data

high resolution fire wire digital camera for measuring register data (manual input of register data is also possible)

specially designed register element

Software

userfriendly windows surface

Press Assess runs under Windows 98, ME, Nt4, 2000 and XP

eight languages available (english, german, french, spanish, dutch, ialian, swedish, greek - more languages on demand)

data collection input wizard is easy to operate

easy to understand graphs and summery for data analysation

data exchange via e-mail attachments

exporting of graphs to a document is easy

Properties

measuring of colour to colour register variation

measuring of print to structure register variation

position control of lead edge to first colour varation

realisation of colour variation

measuring of ink transfer variation

eight colours possible, measuring of max. eight colour/print forms possible (more on demand)

accuracy of the system +/- 0,012 mm

Troubleshooting with Press Assess - Print to Print:

Press Assess allows you to evaluate new, repaired or started up printing machines during operation and to gain and interpret information with its test procedure concerning:

- variations of colour to colour register
- variations of print to structure register
- variations of distances from lead edge to first colour
- variations of colour values
- variations of ink amount

This enables an optimal adjustment of the printing machine: Less waste causes increased quality and quantity, and lower production costs lead to increased costumer satisfaction.