Russian Engineers Develop System for Monitoring Print Quality
A new hardware-software solution automates color control in printing, enabling real-time detection of defects.
Engineers at Novosibirskiy gosudarstvennyy tekhnicheskiy universitet NETI (Novosibirsk State Technical University NETI) have developed a hardware-software system for monitoring print quality at a Moscow-based enterprise.
According to Ivan Tomilov, head of the Department of Automated Control Systems at the university, color quality in printing was previously checked only intermittently, leading to occasional defects. The team proposed automating the process using a combined hardware and software system with analytics that detect deviations in color application on packaging.
Control Zone
The system consists of a controlled lighting environment for remote imaging of product samples and custom software that compares printed images with reference ones, accounting for possible micro-shifts and rotations.
