BST focuses on TubeScan at Labelexpo Europe 2023

BST will showcase a range of products from the complete TubeScan family in realistic production environments for packaging and label printing at Labelexpo Europe 2023. 

BST TubeScan Eagle View offers 100 percent web inspection plus tenfold magnifier web viewing function of particularly sensitive areas such as register marks, print screens or RFID applications. One notable highlight of the inspection system is the high-resolution 5 megapixel matrix camera. In addition to this unrivaled system. Another highlight is the anticipated new graphical user interface. 

Job change ‘on the fly’ prevents machine stops and maximizes productivity. It enables the implementation of solutions from prepress specialist Hybrid Software.   

The redesign of the TubeScan product family sets new benchmarks in camera resolution, faster setup and easier operation.  

Dr. Stephan Krebs, inventor and product manager of TubeScan, explained: ‘Our quality assurance systems are optimized in every way to meet the diverse needs of the people who use them. These are, on the one hand, the print shop operators with their economic interests and, on the other hand, the people who operate the machines. On the one hand, our patented technology helps to reduce makeready times, operating costs, complaints and waste to a minimum, while producing excellent printed products. At the same time, it simplifies process control so that critical events are quickly identified, and response times are reduced through intuitive operation. That's why our innovations focus on the precise recording of print processes, their clear display in real time and intuitive control.’ 

The TubeScan systems allows them to be integrated into almost any press. The space required in web direction is 125mm. The modular concept covers web widths from 150mm to 1,700mm.   

TubeScan Eagle View uses an additional movable, high-resolution matrix camera to zoom in on any section of the web measuring 35x25mm (1.378x0.984in). The maximum pixel resolution of the camera increases from 25 µm to 14 µm. With this resolution, it is even possible to zoom in on halftone dots or individual inkjet dots while running a maximum web speed of 150 meters per minute.  

The camera can be positioned with precision over the web. In addition, all TubeScan illumination options are available, for example, 100 percent inspection can be performed under white light, while the UV light illumination can be utilized by the traversing camera for viewing individual print elements with luminescent ink.  

The Eagle View, as well as all other members of the TubeScan family, now come with a redesigned graphical user interface. New settings have been introduced for defect classifications and defect tolerances. The utilization of the matrix camera enables real-time display of the repeat overview. Details are displayed and can be navigated through intuitive finger gestures. The detail camera image can also be displayed on a separate monitor. With the introduction of the new TubeScan Eagle View comes an improved roll report with event history and defect images and a clear defect gallery.   

The TubeScan family is capable of dynamically change jobs, in conjunction with the Nyquist QLink workflow, as a crucial component of the BST SMARTData concept.  

Hybrid Software's prepress technology canflso be implemented here. The simplifications begin with system setup: Synchronization of the printing cylinder repeat can be done via an existing gear wheel or print mark sensor, or can be purely software-controlled.  

At Labelexpo Europe 2023, BST will also be demonstrating inline inspection of variable bar codes and alphanumeric strings. TubeScan inspects, decodes and evaluates the variable codes or strings – at constant machine speed and simultaneous print inspection.