QI Press Controls and US remote ink specialist Perretta Graphics are to team in a new global partnership.
The move – which follows QI’s acquisition of EAE in April – will see the Dutch colour registration and control systems developer offering the whole of Perretta’s remote ink and register control, ink preset systems and register motorisation offering.
Frank Perretta – credited with inventing the segmented fountain blade, now a standard in its industry, in the late 1970s – went on to help establish the eponymous company now located in Poughkeepsie, New York, in 1981.
QI joint chairman Menno Jansen says the partnership will enable them to offer customers an even more comprehensive solution: “Efficiency improvement will be one of the many advantages of offering such a broad portfolio.
“Not only because of the joint understanding and management of this greater part of the production process but also as customers can rely on one partner to coordinate that complete process,” he says.
Perretta offers four products for register control, the key market segment on which QI Press Controls has built its business. These include remote colour register, automatic closed loop colour register, print to cut register and register motorisation packages. Its product range also includes the P3000 Digital Preset Center – a bridge between ink control and prepress and P3000 series remote ink control system, described as “the most advanced open fountain solution on the market today”.