For the first time this year the International Print Technology Awards for the latest product developments of international manufacturers and technology companies has taken place. The innovative print inspection system ProofSTAR by ISRA VISION, the world market leader for surface inspection, was honored as one of the winners in the “Print” category. More than 1500 readers and subscribers of well-known trade magazines including Deutscher Drucker, Deutscher Drucker - International Edition and print.de, voted over two weeks. The award confirmed the acceptance of ProofSTAR by readers and users from the print industry.

In recent years the election of the most innovative technologies was an integral part of the competitions award for the German Printing Industry known as "PrintStars”. This year, the PrintStars award focused entirely on innovative printed products and so the technology election spun off into its own competition – the International Print Technology Award. From a total of 33 nominated technology concepts the readers voted for the most innovative technologies of 2012. In the category “Print” ISRA VISION was able to prevail against the other nominees with the ProofSTAR in third place in the competition. ISRA has thus once again proved its high level of innovation and technological leadership.

The system ProofSTAR, the innovative complete solution of ISRA VISION, offers printers and packaging printers the possibility to continuously meet the requirements of highest quality and just-in-time production. The manufacturing of packaging typically involves high- quality printed products that need to stand up to the highest demands of brand name products and consumer goods. More often than not, special colors and different language versions are a major factor. Even the smallest processing defect in the creation of the printing plate may lead to defects with devastating consequences. A single error in the text or in the design can result in the whole production order being scrapped. Up until now, a highly-precise and consistent 100% monitoring in an acceptable time period was hardly possible. For requirements such as these, ISRA VISION offers the ProofSTAR complete solution, which allows a direct comparison to the customer’s digital PDF reference.