QualiTronic

With QualiTronic, KBA offers a powerful system for inline sheet inspection on Rapida sheetfed offset presses. It is especially attractive for those print companies who compete for the business of demanding customers by promising continuous monitoring and documentation of absolutely top-quality performance. That applies in particular to packaging printers working in the premium market segment. KBA QualiTronic detects both transient blemishes (e.g. ink splashes, hickeys, paper defects, etc.) and more permanent deviations (e.g. scumming, fading ink supply, over-/under-inking). The errors are recognised at the earliest possible stage and immediately reported to the printer on a dedicated monitor. Targeted intervention is thus possible already before the sheets arriving in the delivery violate the defined tolerance limits. 

 

Benefits

  • 100% monitoring up to 18,000 sheets/hr 
  • Additional business thanks to high print quality and fewer customer complaints (cost reduction, image gain) 
  • Enhanced production reliability:
    - Automatic detection of transient blemishes which are otherwise only noticed by chance
    - Early recognition of developing deviations, possibility of immediate reaction
    - Subsequently higher press utilisation 
  • Pressure taken off the printer, because his “third eye” misses nothingand never gets tired 
  • Only rarely necessary to halt production to rectify errors, scumming, ink splashes or colour deviations, as the arising trend is already displayed as a warning 
  • Documentation of defects in the substrate as evidence when submitting complaints to suppliers 
  • Further possibilities for cost reductions:
    - Higher printing speeds possible, as quality control is handled by an independent system rather than the press operator
    - Less downtime for corrective measures (errors are indicated well before tolerance limits are reached)
    -Significantly lower or possibly no costs for sorting of the sheets after printing 
  • Statistical evaluation functions, e.g. trend of the last 100 sheets, and reports to document measurement series 

 

Scope 

  • Sheet inspection 
  • QualiTronic inspection PC with separate desk 
  • QualiTronic camera and illumination  Press software update 
  • Installation, commissioning and training   

 

Available for... 

  • RA105, RA106, RA130-162a, RA205