Package Inspection

Solutions for packaging printers & packaging lines

Lake Image Systems gives packaging manufacturers and packaging lines the confidence and reassurance that their production processes are correct, error-free, trackable and auditable.

High-speed packaging printing applications demand a superior level of speed and accuracy that creates problems for typical inspection solutions. Through our expertise and flexible architecture, we can use the latest in high-speed, high-resolution imaging technologies, enabling us to meet difficult challenges which others vendor walk away from.

Our rigorous development has resulted in superior systems with expanded capabilities for a wide range of applications in the printing, packaging and converting industries.

Our collaboration with ScanTrust (a secure cloud-based product authentication and supply chain traceability specialist, have developed a secure QRcode, containing a unique fingerprint pattern that cannot be copied), has enabled us to deliver an integrated and fully automated solution which gives printers the assurance that their ScanTrust codes are visible, readable, validated and authenticated in order to deliver a highly effective, traceable, and low-cost secure label and packaging printing service.

Read our case study on how this integrated solution has helped REYNDERS label printing, based in Boechout, Belgium, to automate their production workflow for 100% inspection and authentication of ScanTrust codes on secure packaging for numerous brands in pharmaceuticals, retail, agro-chemicals, and cosmetics to deter counterfeiters.

The Discovery platform provides accurate quality inspection, enterprise-wide tracking, and complex variable data verification.

Food & Beverage Packaging

Most product recalls stem from incorrect packaging, labeling and other food safety markings. Product traceability can minimize disruptions, such as product recalls, which come at an immediate cost and often result in a loss of future sales and significant long-term brand damage.

We provide several technologies that assist packaging printers and suppliers in ensuring their products meet the required quality standards for barcodes and traceability. Our RFID Read and Print solutions read, encode and verify that the critical RFID data matches the printed information to ensure 100% integrity.

Typical solutions include

1. Laser code verification on drinks cans, cartons tops and foil wrappers . Typically a 2D competition codes on ring pulls require verification against a database
2. Laser and conventional die cut to print registration verification. For reel to reel production, it is very difficult to measure registration between print and die cuts.  With the aid of appropriate lighting and the Multiscan measure software tool, this can be achieved with great accuracy.
3. Surface inspection on cloth material and laminated board. With the correct resolution line scan camera and lighting, We are able to see scratches, blemishes, scratches, and splices on a fast continuous wide web.

Pharmaceutical Packaging Inspection Systems

The pharmaceutical packaging industry, particularly those using blister packs and glass ampoule packaging, is adopting new technologies to provide differentiation in their products and to meet an increasing myriad of regulations (e.g. EU Falsified Medicines Directive (FMD) 2001/83/CE, 2010/84/EU and 2011/62/EU). These international standards ensure secure packaging/labeling, serialization, and traceability to combat counterfeiting, and improve patient safety.

We provide a range of solutions which include:

1. Barcode grade codes printed on pharma labels and packs to meet industry-specific ISO/ANSI standards
2. Variable data verification (product code, batch identifier, expiry date, and serial number) typically inkjet printed on to cartons & blister packs
3. Print quality inspection. 100% inspection against a “golden template” including print registration and colour variation.
4. Blister pack fill inspection to verify that each blister has a pill, the pill is whole and not crumbled and that the inkjet batch fill date and the unique code is verified.

DISCOVERY PharmaPQ is a comprehensive print quality inspection and data verification system for pharmaceutical applications, capable of monitoring 100% of the web using high-performance line scan imaging and automated defect detection technology for web print, labels, and packaging applications.

Return on investment on our solutions for packaging can be quickly achieved through reduced inspection costs, improved efficiency and mitigate business risks for printers & converters.

Lake Image Systems is a leader in delivering cost-effective print quality and verification solutions for the packaging industry, providing:

• Variable data verification, integrity and quality inspection including weight, batch/lot code, UID, sell by dates
• Verify and authenticate anticounterfeit QR codes (e.g. ScanTrust) for protect copy vulnerable/sensitive packaging
• Embedded RFID Read, Encode, Print and Verify
• Handles highly reflective surfaces & UV/IR printed codes
• Base stock verification
• Integration with Track & Trace systems (ePedigree tracking) & reporting

• Print quality defect detection
• Missing/duplicate serialized code/QRcode detection
• ANSI/ISO Bar-code grading & quality
• In-Inline inkjet integration & print verification
• Database matching
• Reporting and Audit