Manufacturers of printed packaging solutions are held to the highest standards of quality and reliability, especially in metal decorating. Perfect and clear printing is essential to satisfy their demanding customer standards. Metal decorators rely on a total monitoring of the coating and printing process – to reduce costs and increase their production performance.

Metal packaging is considered the highest class of packaging goods. Metal decorators all over the world are challenged with delivering 100% quality while reducing the expense of raw material. ISRA camera inspection systems for metal decorating help metal decorators around the world reduce customer claims and reprints, while improving productivity with detailed, comprehensive production quality reporting.

With DecoSTAR and CoatSTAR, ISRA VISION provides special solutions that have been developed in the field together with customers, and well-established in the market. Equipped with a high resolution line scan camera (CoatSTAR) and a high resolution color camera 

(DecoSTAR), these inspection systems contain the very newest and most innovative technologies. 

Specially designed illumination, also an important component, makes the image definition very clear while misprints are detected with 100% reliability. With the ColorMonitoringTool the system immediately alarms the operator of any kind of defect or color deviation and notifies of density and ΔE deviation before it reaches a critical level. The system can also stop the machine automatically after a specific amount of defect sheets. 

Data handling is very simple and user friendly: its interface is clearly designed from the perspective of operators. New print jobs can be started during press set up or even automatically in CoatSTAR. Serial misprints are reported instantly and the quality parameters can be adapted at any time. Beyond that, the system works flawlessly on all materials, coatings and sheet designs. 

With ISRA VISION, customers gain a strong and highly experienced partner for a multitude of print inspection tasks with over 80 systems in metal decorating installed all around the world.