DISCOVERY Multiscan

A leading, automated print inspection system, offering a suite of comprehensive print quality assurance and variable data integrity, verification & reporting software tools

DISCOVERY Multiscan easily integrates with almost any high volume printing, inserting, bindery, plastic card or finishing equipment, running at full rated speed for automated, 100% print inspection. The software pulls together images and data from a wide variety of supplied camera and scanner-based technologies, including the Discovery Maxscan contact scanners.

These images are then processed using a comprehensive range of reading tools to detect, extract, grade and decode all forms of printed text such as barcodes, QRCodes and OCR codes within the images for subsequent processing by Multiscan’s integrity, inspection, control, and reporting tools. Discovery Multiscan also offers a variety of print quality inspection tools to detect issues such as print registration, printing glitches, positioning, and color deviation to ensure the print is always within the required specifications.

If errors are detected then a wide range of actions such as diversion, audible/visible alerts, tabbing or roll-mapping for subsequent repairs can be employed, all with full reporting and audit trails.

Discovery Multiscan is perfectly suited for high-speed, high-resolution digital print applications where variable data validation and print quality inspection is more demanding. Reliable integrity assurance for a range of applications including mailpieces, labels, plastic cards, security whilst simultaneously providing 100% print quality inspection of every printed page.

Some of DISCOVERY Multiscan software tools :

• Print Data Verifier: ideally suited for sheet-fed or web applications with defined repeats containing multiple variable printed fields on each item common on lottery, gaming, phone cards, tax stamps, and other security print applications. PDV compares all the variable data (up to 400 fields) on a sheet or web repeat to a data file and reports on any data errors, missing or duplicate sheets found during the production run. More
• Barcode Grading: is a precise, barcode quality inspection tool, designed specifically to continuously determine the quality of variable data barcodes, being printed on documents, labels, cards, and packaging, at high speeds. The tool measures the characteristics of each barcode to industry standards (e.g. ISO/IEC 15415 & ISO/IEC 15416). More
• Label Integrity Manager: ideally suited for multi-lane label production, where out of sequence, missing or duplicate data needs to be eradicated to ensure 100% integrity. Label Integrity Manager (LIM) tracks and collates information on each label in all lanes for accuracy and correct sequencing. Using the header information printed at the start of each label lane, LIM knows precisely the number of labels to expect in each lane as well as the start, end and the increment of the printed variable information to determine that the correct sequence. For random or non-uniform increments, the variable information captured can be matched against a lookup file or database to detect missing, duplicate or out of sequence labels. More
• JETCHECK: ideally suited for all Inkjet Printing, JETCHECK provides a simple, yet powerful solution for automatically detecting blocked or defective inkjet nozzles. Through capturing a high-resolution image of a specified inspection test pattern printed by the inkjet head, JETCHECK analyses the scanned image to determine the precise location of defective inkjet nozzles. A detailed nozzle report (either 1 for defective or 0 for good for every nozzle) is created, which can be used by the inkjet controller software to update its print mask routines to compensate for blocked nozzles. More