NEXPO Chicago will premier the first live demonstration of the innovative IDS - the next step towards ‘lights out printing’. Visitors to NEXPO can now see for themselves how IDS monitors the accuracy of the printed colors on web-offset presses in closed loop, without color marks being printed alongside.

IDS (Intelligent Density System) is rapidly becoming highly successful in Europe and will now also be shown to NEXPO visitors on a running demonstration unit by Q.I. Press Controls North America, enabling web-offset printers to form a concrete picture of how IDS can bring savings for their companies. The demonstration unit will show how a CCD camera scans and evaluates the actual printed image. The complete printing quality of products, distributed straight from the web-offset press without being trimmed, can now be monitored in closed loop, without having to print any irksome color marks on them! This cost-saving innovation is definitely interesting for ‘narrow gap’ presses, which have no margin for color marks.

At NEXPO, Q.I. Press Controls will also show how IDS – in combination with IRS and IQM – carries out a trimmed quality evaluation during and after the run so you can inform your management and your customers of the quality behavior of printing jobs and agree on actual quality tolerances with customers.

An important feature in this system is the operator interface. For example, the ultimate target colors can be shown on this screen in ‘soft proof’, based on ripped files and taking into consideration the printing characteristics of the press, the ink and the paper.

Never before has such an innovative piece of equipment been shown at NEXPO, bringing ‘lights out printing’ another step closer. Visitors to our NEXPO stand, no. 8015, can now be persuaded in person. Our host, Gerald Ferron, and his colleagues will give a detailed demonstration of the efficiency and quality advantages of Q.I. Press Controls’ systems.

At NEXPO stand number 8015 Q.I. Press Controls will be showing ‘True Colors’ in the flesh, with all the explanation and expertise you may require being available to you.