The QuadTech® Register Guidance System with Vector® is an automatic, closed-loop color-to-color register guidance system designed to meet the needs of both commercial and newspaper printers.

Features

Vector® camera
• The Vector’s computing speed may well be the industry’s fastest.
• Using CCD matrix camera technology, it scans the entire cylinder circumference in about five revolutions at makeready speeds.
• Completing up to 30 captures per second with the web running up to 17,8 M/sec (3,500 ft/min), the camera quickly locks onto register marks and maintains this lock-on throughout the run, even during tension upsets, press-speed changes and roll splices.
• This system’s speed is particularly important for maintaining register mark observation and control following register upsets such as splices or blanket washes.
• This speed also results in superior process control, critical as press speeds and quality requirements continue to increase while run lengths diminish.
• The camera can be placed on idlers or on unsupported webs after the last printing unit for the ultimate in control speed.

Benefits

• The Vector’s faster speed allows the system to quickly find register marks, saving makeready time without the need for setup of the circumferential register-mark position.
• It also accurately monitors and adjusts registration, reducing waste and increasing operating efficiency.
• The Register Guidance System with Vector® resides on the QuadTech® ICON™ integrated platform, allowing all your control systems to share a single Operator Control Station that minimizes the learning curve and makes it possible to quickly preset multiple controls.
• Camera functions can be preset with information from the press controls themselves or from the ICON™ job storage library – including mark position information based on press ink-key positions, mark format and mark-to-register motor assignment.

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