Lake Image Systems Ltd., a leader in variable data integrity and print quality inspection for the packaging, labels, and commercial print industries, is pleased to announce that they will be exhibiting at the Label Expo 15 show (Stand #9B22) held on September 29 – October 2, 2015 in Brussels. Label Expo Europe is the world's largest event for the label and package printing industry with over 600 exhibitors showing a full range of machinery and materials.
Lake Image Systems will feature its latest portfolio of powerful solutions for Label and Packaging converters to automate variable data integrity and print quality inspection requirements. Solutions include:
Discovery READ&PRINT for RFID Labels. The Discovery READ&PRINT for RFID solution is a cost effective, offline, end-to-end RFID encoding and READ and PRINT integrity management solution for high volume RFID tag label production. When producing thousands of RFID Tag Labels, multiple steps in the label production process (from RFID encoding to the printing of labels), will invariably introduce errors that undermine confidence in the RFID technology and increases production costs. The Discovery READ&PRINT solution provides a single, automated READ, ENCODE, PRINT and VALIDATE process, ensuring that each label has the correct encoded information, matches the printed data and is 100% readable when it is attached to the product.
Discovery PQExpress. A high performance upgrade to traditional web viewing technology. Operators can view the entire web in high definition, and select critical areas to zoom in and view in real time, even at web speeds up-to 350 meters/min (1150 ft. /min). Discovery PQExpress ensures real-time gross print defect detection of randomly occurring and recurring print defects on web-fed printing presses. Print defects such as mis-registration, die-cut variations, duplex alignment and colour variation are automatically detected. Available as a complete, competitively priced, packaged solution, Discovery's modular design enables clients to purchase the base PQExpress system and can easily upgrade to the Discovery PQ solution which provides more sophisticated, customizable tools for complex defect detection and variable data inspection requirements. Additionally, through our partnership with In-Core Systèmes, we can supply their industry leading surface inspection solution, Lineavision®, for automated detection of surface errors such as paper, watermark, security threads, fibres and OVD foils defects. Combined with Discovery PQ, this dual system enables Lake Image Systems to uniquely offer a total data integrity, print and surface inspection quality management solution with unmatched functionality, performance and flexibility from a single vendor.
Discovery MaxScan. One of the nominees for this years' prestigious Label Industry Global Award, Discovery Maxscan is a revolutionary new compact scanning technology that gives true 600DPI inspection resolution in full colour at web and sheet widths in excess of 900mm, whilst maintaining an ultralow mechanical profile. It easily integrates within the transport system of digital printers, label presses and finishing equipment where the integration of a traditional inspection system can be restricted or even impossible due to the working distances necessary. Operating with Discovery MultiScan3, our brand new inspection platform, MaxScan can detect very small print defects immediately after the print heads rather than at the end of the press. Furthermore, degradations in print quality can be analysed in real-time, and inspection data can be fed directly to the printer controller, enabling it to either make real-time print registration or colour adjustments, or start a recalibration/cleaning process, increasing overall print quality. Multiscan 3's comprehensive measurement, inspection, variable data integrity and enhanced print viewing capabilities, make this the highest performance inspection solution on the market today.
Discovery Enterprise. From Tax Stamps on cigarettes and Liquor, shipping labels on packaging and high value consumer goods to anti-counterfeit drug labels, the use of smart labels incorporating serialisation, barcode and security marks with sophisticated tracing and tracking systems are on the increase. However ensuring the highest standards in variable data integrity, readability and quality of these security marks on labels during its production can be a major problem, resulting in enforcement and tracking issues further downstream. Discovery Enterprise provides a comprehensive label integrity, quality control management and reporting solution that addresses these issues. The Discovery Enterprise server manages a network of Discovery MultiScan camera based clients to read, log, grade, and track each and every label during its print production and subsequent application process. A complete database of processed, missing, unreadable and duplicated labels are available for each label run for full audit traceability. Defective labels are tracked and marked invalid or presented at the rewinder or inspection station for manual validation. This label job data file can be easily integrated into virtually any Track and Trace solution required for Tax Stamps, Pharmaceutical labels and Warehouse Management Systems.
"We are excited to once again exhibit our new, innovative & market driven solutions at Label Expo. These solutions enable our customers to increase their bottom line by improving print quality, variable data integrity and by reducing waste." Say Martin Keats, Managing Director at Lake Image Systems Ltd. "With the variable data capability of digital presses growing rapidly, PQExpress and Maxscan offer affordable solutions for print quality inspection and data integrity management requirements and enable label converters to fully embrace the expansion in smart labels and packaging."
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