BST unveiled a range of user-centric innovations at drupa, designed to empower manufacturers to enhance the efficiency, sustainability and reliability of their production processes. Aligned with the BST campaign ‘FOR YOU’, these innovations are all about the user, offering two-fold benefits: streamlined, intuitive operation and perfect print results with minimal waste.
These achievements are made possible by BST’s digitally networkable, quality-enhancing web guiding and register control, web monitoring and inspection systems. With new, enhanced functions that surpass industry-defined standards, BST is setting a new benchmark in the industry.
BST is renowned for solutions of the highest technical standard: a trendsetter in all applications. By ensuring that the processed material is exactly in its intended position, BST web guiding systems effectively minimise waste and downtime.
Customers gain more flexibility with a new, even simpler operating concept. For the first time, the new Commander SMART COM 100 allows the sensor and control unit to be operated from a single control point. This includes the new ekr CON 610 control unit and the new CLS CAM 200 sensor, which is only half the size of its predecessor, the CLS Pro 600, and ensures even better control results thanks to optimised sensor technology.
Further developments in web inspection systems
To provide customers with enhanced added value in terms of image quality, sustainability and longevity, BST has further developed the iPQ-View high-end video web inspection system to now feature cutting-edge CMOS sensor technology, along with energy-efficient, durable high-performance LEDs and other practical innovations.
The PROView web monitoring system, a comparatively inexpensive and simple solution, was on show for the first time at drupa. Even at a maximum web speed of 1,000 metres per minute, it enables reliable print image monitoring.
As an intelligent tool for quality management, iPQ-Check combines 100% print image inspection with high-quality web inspection across the entire print format and sustainably improves print quality. As part of the iPQ-Center, both inspection and web monitoring can be set up via an interface to further reduce the risk of incorrect entries in job setup and handling time with the systems.
The new iPQ-Check Digital inspection system is used for digital printing systems and is fully integrated into the customer’s workflow. Jobs are created in pre-press, then loaded into SMARTData Preparation, where data is prepared for and transferred to iPQ-Check Digital to perform the inspection. The digital process enables operator-free job setup, automatic job changeover, full inspection from the first format and job sizes with a quantity of one. In addition, specific print defects in digital printing can be checked with process-typical defect classes, such as narrow streaks – representative of print nozzle failures – and bending defects.
Print inspection in the complete workflow
The TubeScan print inspection system with SMARTData QLink enables complete automation of label printing – from pre-press to packaging and dispatch.
Job data is already generated in the pre-press stage via interfaces to common ERP and MIS systems and sent to the print department via the customer network. This means that jobs can be set up much more quickly. With QLink on the press, the roll log can be edited during printing. The credit counter is displayed in real time – per roll or cumulatively over the entire job.
Two highlights are particularly interesting for digital printing: ‘Dynamic Job Change’ enables a job change without stopping the machine if there are several jobs on a roll. TubeScan automatically recognises the new job and retrieves the corresponding master in real time for comparison during inspection. This saves time and reduces waste.
Setting up the system is also simple: synchronisation with the print repeat is purely software-controlled. External trigger sensors are not required. But inline inspection with TubeScan can do even more: variable data can also be inspected in parallel. Variable barcodes or alphanumeric character strings can be checked, decoded and compared with a database by TubeScan.
The QLink data from the printing process is used for further processing to rectify errors. Even the rewinder can be controlled with QLink Rewinder for automatic error positioning. Last but not least, the information printed on the finished roll can tell a packaging robot which rolls can ultimately be delivered.
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BST unveiled a range of user-centric innovations at drupa 2024
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