QuadTech Cut-Off Register for Italy's Biggest Daily

By: E&P Staff RCS media group, publisher of Italy's biggest daily, Corriere Della Sera, recently installed two QuadTech Autotron Newspaper 2800 Ribbon Control Systems on two Cerutti S4 shaftless flexo newspaper presses at Niber SRL, the company that produces Corriere Della Sera in Bologna. Each Autotron Newspaper 2800 controls cut-off register on six individual folder ribbons.

Developed specifically for the newspaper industry, the Autotron Newspaper 2800's miniature scanning heads are smaller than 35mm film cassettes, allowing them to fit between rollers in the ribbon stack, avoiding web-flap problems and increasing accuracy of ribbon-length control. The heads measure marks over the rollers or recognize blocks of print. The latter is an important feature for newspapers in minimizing the use of register marks.

QuadTech was chosen by Cerutti in conjunction with Corriere Della Sera, which also expects to reduce waste with the Autotron Newspaper 2800's patented system that locks on to marks and corrects cut-off register immediately.