TubeScan digital strobe XL - For wide web printing and converting
TubeScan digital strobe XL
Installed on the press, TubeScan XL significantly reduces waste. A final inspection on the slitter ensures optimum delivery quality and helps avoid costly customer complaints.
With the QLink workflow, TubeScan XL combines 100% inspection on the slitter with downstream defect elimination on the doctor machine, maximizing overall yields.
Description
TubeScan XL is an efficient and attractively priced 100% image inspection system for wide web applications. It handles web widths from 900 to 1.700 mm and operates at speeds of up to 800 m/min.
The system can be installed on the press or on the slitter and can be integrated into the QLink workflow for maximum profitability. It offers four illumination modes: standard light, UV light, contour light, and back light. TubeScan XL includes the same proven features as the TubeScan, ensuring reliable inspection and high-quality results.
What are your values?
- Easy to integrate into new or existing machines
- Modular, scalable system concept with software features that can be expanded or added later
- Easy operation via an intuitive touch interface
- Maximum process reliability and productivity to reduce waste and rework
- Seamless integration into prepress and MIS/ERP workflows via SMARTData QLink
TubeScan – The smart, modular 100% print inspection for top quality and maximum efficiency.
Features
Inspection & defect detection
- Superb image quality due to high camera resolution
- 100% web viewing during make-ready and production
- Detection of coarse to fine print defects, such as misprints, register defects and color deviations
- Detection of missing labels and matrix residues
- Surface inspection
- Counting of repeats and labels
- Placement control module with defect queue for automatic control of a rewinder
- Relative distance monitoring based on edges or shapes
- Delta-E monitoring
Defect handling & reporting
- Dynamic Roll Map for overview of production
- Defect Queue for placement control
- Roll report with defect images for documentation
Operator efficiency
- Intuitive Touch Screen with fast and easy job setup
- Automatic repeat synchronization across the entire speed range of the machine
- Very reliable and stable operation
Illumination modes and visibility enhancement
- Bright field illumination for highly reflective materials
- UV illumination for luminescent applications
- Contour light for recognition of elevations such as embossing, braille, clear-on-clear labels, clear-on-paper labels,matrix residue, wrinkles, bubbles
- Back light to reveal pin holes or internal structures e.g. RFID antennas.
- Multiplexing combines several illumination modes in a single inspection run.
PDF & prepress integration
- PDF Validation
- Import of prepress-defined inspection zones, such as masking, die-cutting contours, secondary inspection zones, static or variable 1D / 2D barcodes and alphanumeric sequences
SMARTData QLink inspection workflow
Smart and economic automation and process integration
- Job Setup and Integration
- Interfaces to prepress software and MIS / ERP systems
- Referencing to databases
- QLink Press: On the printing press
- Roll management
- Real-time editor
- Local or network storage
- QLink Editor: Quality management
- Processing of all roll protocols in the network
- QLink Rewinder: On the finishing machine
- Control of the rewinder based on defect protocol
- Camera-based synchronization and visualization
- Optional 100% re-inspection
- QLink Slitter
- Creation of error logs for quality assessment and downstream processing on the doctor machine, if desired
Machine integration
Compact Universal Mounting Frame for easy machine integration
Technical Details
Camera / imaging
Image rate
up to 30 images per second (live mode)
Max. web speed
up to 800 m/min (depending on model)
Resolution
up to 7,2 K (depending on version)
Pixel resolution
up to approx. 140 µm (depending on model)
Sensor type
high-resolution CCD / CMOS matrix camera
Low power consumption
due to pulsed LED illumination
Encoder
RS422 with lay-on wheel (channel A + B)
Outputs
up to 10 opto-isolated (24 V, 80 mA max)
Binary I/O module
for 2 or 4 external event inputs (24 V)
Mechanics / design
Compact housing
only 125 mm in web direction, 290 mm height
Housing lengths
1.010 – 1.870 mm (depending on web width)
Backing bars
for insensitive liner-based materials, for sensitive materials, for booklets up to 5 mm thickness
Mounting options
Universal Mounting Frame
Downloads
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Get to know our TubeScan XL
TubeScan XL inspection system is a flexible and cost-efficient solution for reliable 100% print inspection in wide web printing. TubeScan XL combines high-resolution camera technology with intelligent LED illumination to detect print defects such as register errors, streaks, contamination, or missing elements.
100% control. 100% confidence. Experience how BST inspection systems take your production quality to the next level.
In print and packaging, even demanding applications such as reflective surfaces, security features, or variable data must be reliably inspected. With TubeScan, customers can ensure 100% control on all common machines flexible in use and comprehensively proven in practice.
Martin BettingProduct Management TubeScan