QI Press Controls has announced the first installation order based on its new mRC-3D depth-detection camera technology.
Longstanding customer Dumont Schauberg (MDS) – which has had QI’s micro-mark based IRS colour register system on its KBA Commander pressline for almost a decade – signed for the new ‘miracle’ system at DRUPA.
The historic deal was confirmed with a handshake by MDS production manager Manfred Poischen and QI board member Menno Jansen, and follows the release of the self-cleaning camera system at the start of the Düsseldorf show.
A loyal customer from the “very beginning”, DuMont Schauberg installed the then-revolutionary IRS technology on its 11-tower Commander a decade ago. Poischen says it has performed “to our fullest satisfaction” over all of the years since, and praises innovation in monitoring and controlling CCD camera technology for web presses: “Through mRC-3D self-cleaning depth detection cameras, QI clearly shows its added value for newspaper and magazine producers.”
He says the new system will be “a highly useful rejuvenation”, to more so given the potential the mRC-3D technology has for the press installation. Confidence comes from longstanding cooperation on earlier Commander and Cortina projects, and Poischen says the mRC-3D upgrade will soon start paying off through efficiency gains and other benefits.
“The self-cleaning 3D camera will be maintenance-free,” he says. “Thanks to the double sensor technology, we can also expect a substantial increase in quality.”
Installation is scheduled for next December. Menno Jansen says QI’s development team will work with MDS’s printing experts to demonstrate what the company’s latest optical-digital high-tech innovation can do.
DuMont Schauberg Cologne’s newspaper group traces its roots to the early seventeenth century, and has a reputation of investing in trendsetting innovation. Its equipment includes the KBA Commander and a waterless four-tower Cortina 6/2 pressline.
Pictured: Manfred Poischen, Menno Jansen and Dumont Schauberg offset manager Henry Winkler with the new mRC-3D