In a highly competitive business environment such as the printing industry, factors such as a maximum of productivity, a minimum number of rejects and highest possible quality are essential for the survival of any print shop or finishing operation. Turn to ISRA VISION for assistance and to find solutions for these types of issues. The company offers a complete range of 100% print inspection products, supplemented by a host of new innovative solutions that has been successfully presented at drupa 2012, each one designed precisely to meet printing requirements.

Technical processes in the print and finishing industries are becoming increasingly more demanding and more complex. Each and every one of the production steps hides the potential risk of yet another process deviation. The smallest defect in a single work step can affect the entire process chain. At highest production speeds, it must be assured that productivity is at its maximum, reject numbers at their minimum and quality is at its highest possible level.

In keeping with the idea "quality is the opposite of coincidence", ISRA VISION offers high-performance, optical 100% in-line systems for surface inspection. At drupa 2012, for the first time ever, the world's leading supplier presented a complete range of inspection products for every relevant process and application used in the PRINT industry. Based on the tried and tested PrintSTAR 100% inspection series – a complete array of solutions are available under the headline “STARs of Print” – with which quality relevant defects are detected on printed sheets, webs, printed flexible packaging, paper, cardboard or folding cartons.

The systems contribute significantly to improving quality and optimizing processes along the entire process chain and leave absolutely nothing to chance. They cover the full range of inspection tasks for surface and print inspection - this is second to none in the market. Among the clear advantages is the ability to avoid or reduce waste, and in doing so, optimize material and production costs. The systems increase efficiency and maximize production machine availability. Thousands of successful systems installed at locations around the world are an acknowledgement of ISRA's experience and technical expertise.

Among the inspection solutions is the PrintSTAR product used for web printing in the flexible packaging industry, installed in flexo and gravure printing applications, as well as the inspection of print jobs on weboffset machines. In the field of sheet printing, ISRA VISION presents the two inspection systems ProofSTAR and BlankSTAR. ProofSTAR is an offline inspection system used to monitor the print results of continuous printing on sheet offset machines. Its purpose is to inspect sample sheets and to compare the print image with the digital templates approved by the customer. BlankSTAR is a technical solution used to inspect folding cartons at production speeds. It assures that only impeccable repeats find their way into the folding carton gluing machines.

Additionally available modules such as ColorWATCH for color monitoring, PrintTRACK to track registers, MultiVIEW to inspect gloss varnishes and gloss foil applications, QuickPROOF for PDF comparison and the RewindManager for cut optimization, offer even more significant advantages. These solutions can be used to significantly optimize the production processes in the printing industry, and by doing so, enormously increase a company's competitive advantage.