US converter installs BST Shark inspection system

Aurora, Illinois-based converter The Label Printers has purchased a BST Pro Mark Shark 4000 LEX inspection system.  

The Shark 100 percent inspection system can ‘see’ mis-registers, color variations and hazing, dirty print, smudges, scratches, splashes and spots, web creases and wrinkles, hairs, die-cut variations and incorrect matrix removal, reverse type fill-in, and most streaks and debris.  

Plant manager Tom Erickson said: ‘In addition to substantially increasing our ability to detect print defects, the Shark system will enable us to run our equipment faster than our current system does. This is a real selling tool for us. Now we can offer our customers and prospective customers 100 percent inspection without relying on the human eye. And, in future, it could be used for authenticating serialized labels and barcode verification. It’s got great potential in variable printing – which gets bigger for us all the time.’ 

Lori Campbell, chief of operations, said: ‘We’re very proud of our workforce and the care and attention they give to our quality – which our ISO registration and 99.6 percent quality rating back up. But I’m equally proud that our manufacturing team was actively looking for ways to make our quality better and give us that all-important competitive edge, with equipment that makes us better able to keep our processes in control and capable – a hallmark of continuous quality improvement environments.’ 

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