This is the final installment of our four part series dedicated to helping you understand the most important aspects of inspection systems.

• Part 1: Inspection System Specifications Explained
• Part 2: Ease of Use, Customer Service and Support
• Part 3: Product and Specification Guarantees
• Part 4: The Forward Looking Impact of your System Purchase

When making a final decision on an inspection system purchase, it’s important to look at how the long-term ownership of the system will affect your bottom line. Whether the price seems prohibitive or easily within your budget, a system that pays for itself in a reasonable amount of time is always a wise investment.

This month, we’ll discuss some of the long-term effects of the purchase, installation, and use of an inspection system. This will help narrow down your choices by allowing you to find a system that will not only fit within your budget, but your business goals.

  

Each month we present a new bit of trivia that we call an InfoByte. You can check out previous InfoBytes in our newsletter archive.

Lenticular printing is a process used to create images that appear to be 3-D or that change when the viewing angle changes. One of the ways this is currently done by printing images on the back of a series of tiny, lenticular lenses using an offset lithographic press. The ideas behind the current technology dates back farther than you might think.

In 1692, painter G.A. Bois-Clair produced the first 3-D (stereoscopic) image. He placed strips of two different images in the gaps between a series of opaque vertical bars. They were aligned such that when viewed at a certain distance, each eye would see a different, complete image, creating the illusion that the resultant image was 3-D.

You can read more about the development of lenticular images at Lenstar.org.

• The Forward Looking Impact of your Inspection System Purchase
• May’s InfoBYTE

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PC Industries has been serving the printing and converting industry since 1975, providing the widest and most complete line of print inspection systems and equipment. All of our products are proudly made in the USA. Our history of quality and innovation makes us the clear choice for on-line and off-line print verification.

• PQV-100% Inspection
• OLP-PDF Proofreading
• Mini-Low Cost Inspection

Graphic-Vision Web Viewers

• RX100-Manual Traverse
• RX200-Automatic Traverse
• RX300-Sampling Defect Detection

Code-Tracker Barcode Verification

• CT200-Verification
• CT300-ANSI/ISO Grading

Length Monitors and Register Control

• RC400- Register Control
• ELS/MLS400-Reregister Control
• LM400-Length Monitoring