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LABELS&LABELING |69<br />
Ultrajet range, TexaJet water-based<br />
sublimation inks, and the mild<br />
solvent-based Marajet series. A new<br />
low-migration ink was also launched,<br />
the UV-curable Ultrapack UVFP range.<br />
Further highlights included graphic<br />
screen printing inks and UV-LED-curable<br />
inks for container and label printing.<br />
Marabu's UV-curable special effect inks<br />
were shown on the new Sakurai Maestro<br />
cylinder screen press.<br />
IGT introduced a new printability<br />
tester for the low end of the market, a<br />
replacement for manual proofers and<br />
hand rollers.<br />
UV curing manufacturers were<br />
demonstrating how energy efficient<br />
and compact these systems have now<br />
become. UV Ray showed its newly<br />
developed Atom compact dichroic<br />
reflector, which can be supplied with<br />
water cooling. Atom adopts UV Ray’s<br />
latest PF technology to enhance its<br />
reflector characteristics. The company<br />
also showed a compact and lightweight<br />
chill roll with a dual chamber system<br />
designed to allow semi-rotary presses to<br />
handle heat sensitive materials.<br />
Uv-Technik Meyer introduced its new<br />
eStar UV curing system with reduced<br />
energy consumption. It operates in<br />
combination with the company’s new<br />
EB 60 high efficiency electronic lamp<br />
ballast. Also new was the UV Spectro,<br />
which combines a spectrometer for<br />
measurements in the 200-440 nm UV<br />
range and a probe for measuring the<br />
intensity profile under a medium-pressure<br />
UV lamp or UV LED. The dose can<br />
also be measured.<br />
IST showed its MBS-6 range of energy<br />
efficient UV lamp systems and on-line<br />
energy measurement, covered in great<br />
detail in the last edition of L&L.<br />
UV LED is the current buzz word<br />
in energy curing technology, and<br />
Phoseon is at the leading edge of<br />
these developments, showcasing both<br />
air and water cooled products based<br />
on its patented Semiconductor Light<br />
Matrix (SLM) technology. Uv-Technik<br />
Meyer showed its lightweight and<br />
compact EDcure air-cooled UV-LED units<br />
designed particularly for ‘pinning’ and<br />
final cure in inkjet applications.<br />
VISION SYSTEMS<br />
This Drupa will be remembered for when<br />
in-line spectrographic measurement<br />
came of age. These systems measure<br />
true color values, not just density<br />
and register, using l.a.b color space<br />
standards and delta E deviation. AVT<br />
introduced its SpectraLab module for<br />
both color and density measurements<br />
as an optional add-on for the PrintVision/<br />
Jupiter, PV/Argus II and the new PV/<br />
Argus Elite system. SpectraLab can<br />
INTELLIGENT INSPECTION<br />
The new Spectral measurement camera<br />
forms just one part of BST’s very interesting<br />
QCenter ‘intelligent’ quality assurance system.<br />
Rather than the operator selecting a<br />
camera – linescan or spectragraphic for<br />
example – Q-Center automatically chooses<br />
the appropriate hardware and software tools<br />
depending upon what part of the web the<br />
operator wants to look at, and at what level<br />
of detail. The operator uses a large Quad<br />
HDTV touch screen monitor wall to control<br />
functions such as zooming, selecting fields<br />
of view, overview of the entire web width,<br />
and other quality assurance tasks. QCenter<br />
both selects a camera and automatically<br />
positions it to bring the selected web viewer<br />
onto the screen.<br />
QCenter is fully modular, and can integrate<br />
multiple cameras, image analysis functions<br />
and additional lighting, all operated by the<br />
central user interface.<br />
be set to automatically measure<br />
user-selected points anywhere on the<br />
web, and on clear films can measure<br />
color printed on either side of the web.<br />
BST International launched its own<br />
inline spectral measurement system,<br />
QCenter.Spectral, developed in close<br />
cooperation with instrument specialist<br />
X-Rite to allow inline and handheld<br />
color measuring systems to deliver<br />
comparable results.<br />
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