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Q.I. Press Controls successful on Swiss newspaper marketNeue Luzerner Zeitung AG and Zehnder Print AG are two Swiss printer centres that both have selected Q.I. Press Controls to supply automatic register controls for their newspaper presses. A total of 47 IRS scanners will control automatically colour register, cut-off register and side-lay register.
The management of LZ Medien Holding with among them Mr. Jürg Weber, General Manager and Mr. Anton Nussbaumer, Deputy director, has made a conscious choice after a thoroughly investigation of the technologies of the register systems from several suppliers. The most important reasons for them to choose for Q.I. Press Controls? system, are proven technology of the Intelligent Register System, recommendations of partners Wifag and ABB, experience of Q.I. Press Controls with Wifag presses and last but not least the very good Return-on-Investment period. Mr. Nussbaumer emphasizes that he was impressed of how Q.I. Press Controls thinks along with customers on a high level. Zehnder Print AG in Rickenbach, Switzerland became convinced that their Goss Universal 50 presses could perform much better with Q.I. Press Controls' IRS register system than with the previously installed system. The four 4-high towers from 2000 and two new 4-high towers will be equipped with 12 IRS scanners for colour register. At the printing plant in Rickenbach, the two daily newspapers Wall Street Journal Europe and International Herald Tribune are printed, together with 32 weekly newspapers and several periodicals. With these large orders and other installations in Vernier, Aarau, Basel, Sion, Lausanne, Liestal, Neuenburg and Schaffhausen, Q.I. Press Controls has build up an impressive installed base in Switzerland. ? Switzerland serves as an example for the rest of the world? Kamiel van Riel from Q.I. Press Controls concludes. "More and more printers react to the heavier demands for print quality on the newspaper market. The trend is: waste down ? quality up!" |
