AVT to show new Print Vision/Helios features at Labelexpo

AVT and GMI will present their full range of 100% automatic inspection, quality assurance and remote ink control products with new capabilities for the label and narrow web market on booth 711, as well as on its partners’ stands, at Labelexpo Americas in Chicago.  

New at the show will be AVT’s iPrint cell phone application, which enables the company’s customers to get real time information from the production floor on their iPhone. Production status, quality information, statistical data and more are available immediately through the iPrint application. 

Also on display will be the PrintVision/Helios II 100% inspection system. Installed on hundreds of presses and rewinders, PrintVision/Helios II is said to increase productivity by enabling printers to run faster, monitoring the amount of good labels produced, alerting on process problems as soon as they start to evolve, and recording every print defect found for downstream quality assurance. Re-prints are avoided by automatic verification of the job against the digital PDF file in order to make sure the correct job is printed, and the correct, non-damaged plates are being used. JobRef verification automatically compares the PDF file to the current master image before production starts and costly mistakes are made.     

Integrated into AVT PrintVision/Helios II – the Barcode and Variable Barcodes module inspects and verifies UPC barcodes, 2D Data Matrix barcodes, and human readable items. The system performs verification of all printed barcodes and is able to detect and alert immediately any barcode quality and readability problem.  

The system also supports the new E-Pedigree FDA regulations to ‘track and trace’ every step of the pharmaceutical drug until it reaches the final customer, in order to protect consumers from contaminated medicine or counterfeit drugs. PrintVision/Helios II can verify and validate these unique individual codes and alert and report on quality and validity, as well as duplications or missing codes.  

New PrintVision/Helios II capabilities shown for the first time at the event include ProMIS, which allows communication with MIS / ERP production systems; DeltaE color measurements, a new addition to AVT automatic inspection that enables color consistency through measurement and monitoring; and Microcolor/Mercury automated ink control for offset and letterpress machines, which uses a digital servomotor to set ink films with high precision. 

Featuring a touch screen interface and supporting CIP3 digital pre-setting, Mercury has on-board disk storage, or an optional network connection, which stores an unlimited number of jobs, ready for fast recall. 

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