Oosterhout, May 2016
Q.I. Press Controls (QIPC),
the Dutch specialist in measurement and control systems for the printing
industry, already had an active presence on several continents worldwide. From
India to Colombia and from Egypt to the United States, printing companies all
over the world have been taking advantage of the innovative solutions offered
by the Oosterhout-based company. However, QIPC has now acquired a key client
just 31 km down the road from its head office: Koninklijke Drukkerij Em. De
Jong. The company’s printing plant in ‘neighbouring’ Baarle-Nassau has recently
had one of its eight presses installed with QIPC’s fully automated press
control system. Drukkerij Em. De Jong is also fitting out one of its other
printing presses with the colour register and fan-out control system using
QIPC’s mRC-3D system.
Full reconditioning of KBA
Compacta 217
Drukkerij Em. De Jong and QIPC
have maintained informal contacts over a longer period, but until now the plant
has never had a QIPC system in use. Now all this has changed. First of all,
Drukkerij Em. De Jong is having its KBA Compacta 217 press fitted with an mRC-3D
system for colour, cut-off and sidelay register control and an IDS-3D system
for closed-loop colour control. “Originally, the company only wanted to replace
the cut-off control system as that was no longer working reliably”, explains
Erwin van Rossem, Head of Sales at QIPC. “But after several talks, it was
decided to upgrade all the systems. It won’t be long before they’ll be
discovering they really did make the right choice!”
The six mRC-3D and two
IDS-3D cameras will provide the company with much greater reliability in terms
of quality and bring about huge savings in waste. The improved reliability will
mean fewer headaches for operators as the old system had become unstable.
KBA C56/SG
Drukkerij Em. De Jong has also
decided to fit its KBA C56/SG with the mRC-3D system for colour register
and fan-out control. “The current manual fan-out control system only works
statically”, says Erwin van Rossem. “What they were looking for was a fully
automated, dynamic fan-out control for during production which eliminated the
need for manual control and even the changing of plates to compensate for
fan-out in pre-press”.
Important heatset player
QIPC is extremely
proud to clinch the double order from Drukkerij Em. De Jong. “The company is a
major heatset player on the European market”, Erwin van Rossem is quick to
emphasise. “They are considered to be a key reference for us. That’s extremely
useful when you consider how close they are to our head office: this means we
can now show our working systems to potential clients at first hand.”
First findings
The system was installed at the beginning of the year and has already
been earning its spurs, both on the KBA C56 and the Compacta 217. Roel de
Weerd, Technical Director at Drukkerij Em. De Jong, is full of praise for its
ease of use. “An important argument for keeping the faith with
existing suppliers is standardisation. For printing companies such as ours,
where there are 8 printing presses in operation, our primary aim is to maximise
functionality so that we can deploy operators as flexibly as possible. In fact
QIPC’s operating platform (GOS) is so easy to use that our operators have been
able to use it effortlessly since day one.”
