Powerful, performance proven solutions that increase your profitability

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Making print more profitable worldwide!

QuadTech’s worldwide team never wavers in our ongoing drive to be the best at all we do.

We’re dedicated to developing innovative products, services and processes that solve printing

challenges. This dedication and our passion for print have made us a worldwide leader and

innovator of press controls and defect and color inspection technology. Our commitment is paying

off for QuadTech customers worldwide. Our powerful, performance proven solutions help printers

and OEMs to boost quality and efficiency, while reducing waste and increasing profitability.

I’m very proud of our exceptional staff and engineering teams. They approach every challenge

with the belief that QuadTech can invent a better way. Located in offices around the world,

our people make the QuadTech value proposition difficult to duplicate. Our financial strength,

worldwide infrastructure and ability to provide comprehensive support also keep us well

ahead of our competition. Others may claim to be the leader, but QuadTech has the data to

substantiate that position. In the past 14 years, we’ve installed 10,189 systems (and counting!)

in more than 100 countries worldwide!

If you’re currently one of our customers or technology partners, I personally want to thank you

for being a part of our growth. If you’re considering starting a relationship with us, we welcome

the opportunity to earn your business and help you strengthen your competitive edge.

Karl FritchenPresident, QuadTech Innovative People Revolutionizing Print Technology!

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Start-to-finish expertise

Our commitment: deliver a superior level of customer service at every touch point. Because no two presses are exactly alike, QuadTech creates solutions for your specific needs. From preventive maintenance to on-site system audits and remote diagnostics, we help you optimize performance and produce the best results possible.

Performance assurance

Our products undergo extensive development and rigorous testing to assure the highest quality, reliability and delivery. The QuadTech® ICON™ integrated platform allows you to run press controls from a single, centralized user interface. Our defect and color inspection systems are designed for flexibility, enabling you to select and integrate the components that meet your specific requirements from basic inspection to a closed-loop, end-to-end solution. And because our integrated solutions reduce waste and improve makeready times, you’re ensured of excellent return on investment.

Technical training

While every QuadTech product is designed to be intuitive and easy to use, our training specialists ease the transition to new technology and teach even seasoned personnel how to optimize system productivity. To ensure you continue to make the most of your equipment, we can also train any new operators you hire during its life cycle.

Performance Proven™ Guarantee

You may hear similar promises of improved quality, greater efficiencies and higher profits from our competitors. It’s the delivery on those promises that makes all the difference. Not a problem with QuadTech. We start by providing a quantifiable measure of how you’re doing currently. Then, we show you exactly how far we can move you forward. And we stay with you until it’s obvious that we’ve lived up to our promises … or exceeded them.

Service Advantage™ with Proactive Care™

The instant a problem occurs on press, you start losing money. Service Advantage with Proactive Care helps prevent problems before they start. You’ll see a dramatic reduction in downtime, as well as a decrease in the need to troubleshoot and schedule service calls. Plus, you’ll eliminate budgetary surprises such as additional service charges or the cost of software upgrades and replacement parts. Service Advantage with Proactive Care is hassle-free and cost-effective.

Worldwide support

Maximize your productivity with the support of a dedicated team of experts.Our technical support call center is not a paging service. It is staffed 24 hours a day, seven days a week. We can help you troubleshoot your equipment and diagnose problems remotely. Our field service representatives are located all over the world for quick response times when a service call is necessary. Plus, our Parts Department stocks and maintains an appropriate inventory in our offices around the world to help keep your QuadTech systems operating at peak productivity.

The QuadTechDifference

QuadTech has played a major role in helping Quad/Graphics reach and retain its position as one of the world’s largest and most renowned printers. Our deep understanding of print and our problem-solving expertise serve our strategic partners and print businesses worldwide. The ideas born as solutions to your – and our own parent company’s – printing issues are transformed by our R&D team into products that greatly enhance print quality, decrease waste and streamline processes.

30+ YEARSOF EXPERTISE & INNOVATIONSIN PRESS CONTROLS

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The stakes are higher than ever in the printing industry.

Quality should be nothing less than flawless. Color must

be exact. Production cycles must be lean. QuadTech helps

you meet unprecedented levels of quality, productivity

and profitability in an increasingly competitive market.

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Our heritage is your advantage

Having grown up in the printing arena, QuadTech knows first-hand your day-to-day challenges. As the research and development arm of Quad/Graphics, we applied our insight to help it become one of the world’s largest and most respected printers. Every day, we use that understanding and expertise to deliver profit-building printing solutions for businesses worldwide.

Results-driven products

We’ve earned our reputation as a leading designer and manufacturer of automated control systems by creating products that conquer your specific challenges. We help you minimize makeready waste and environmental impact. Enhance print quality. And improve your profitability. For commercial printers, newspaper publishers, packagers, converters and publication gravure printers, QuadTech products consistently raise the bar for functionality, efficiency and reliability.

Industry innovators

QuadTech ingenuity is unmatched. On-target register and ribbon control systems. Color control systems that function with unerring precision. Data management that speeds processes and improves accuracy. Inspection systems that enable flawless and color-perfect results. In fact, every QuadTech solution is built for top performance. We continually design, build and invest in breakthrough technology to improve the quality and cost of printing on the various substrates our customers use. The result is a wide range of innovative, industry-leading products that enables printers worldwide to be more competitive and successful.

R&D FOR QUAD/GRAPHICS, ONE OF THE WORLD’S LARGEST PRINTERS

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Fast, accurate, targeted commercial printing

Your customers need to make the most of their marketing dollars. That’s just one of the reasons on-demand printing is growing in popularity. To meet this demand, you need the tools and technology to tightly target demographics and keep brand colors true.

Our award-winning closed-loop color control technology puts you giant leaps ahead of the competition when it comes to delivering on-target, high-fidelity color fast. The QuadTech® Color Control System with Instrument Flight® from System Brunner® controls solid ink density, three-color gray balance and midtone dot gain for top-quality color from start to finish. Precision control is also delivered through our advanced QuadTech SpectralCam™. It accurately measures the spectral response and calculates L*a*b*, ΔE, Density and ΔDensity to eliminate subjectivity and produce superior color consistency and product quality. Best of all, it’s done with maximum efficiency and speed.

In fact, all QuadTech technology is designed with an eye toward boosting pressroom efficiency and your bottom line. Another example: Our multifunction register camera is a high-performance solution for color-to-color, ribbon and cutoff control. It’s full of profit-building features that save you time, labor and waste.

Commercial

1979

QuadTech founded by Thomas A. Quadracci.

1980

Produced first RGS II.

Produced first Silicone Coater.

1981

Produced first Chill Roll Stand.

Milestones

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Keeping newspapers in the black

In the age of digital media, newspapers are faced with many new challenges.Advertisers expect color availability and visual impact that’s on par with online. The rising cost of paper means waste assumes new importance. Production stoppages jeopardize deadlines and bottom lines. And like any business today, newspaper printers must find new ways to diversify services and keep presses running to maximize profitability.

QuadTech specializes in designing technology that helps you do more with less – like CIELAB-based color control. The QuadTech® Newspaper Color Control System with AccuCam™ is the most advanced imaged-based color control system available. It eliminates the need for space-eating colorbars and graybars in the product, giving your customers room for additional advertising. With increased color capacity, you can attract more work from current and potential newspaper and semi-commercial customers, and boost the profitability of your presses by running them around the clock.

You can also increase pressroom efficiency with the help of our register and ribbon control technology. The QuadTech® MultiCam® provides reliable performance and fast response during press starts and reel splices. In fact, all QuadTech products are engineered specifically to minimize the time and waste associated with makeready, startups, stops, tension upsets and splices.

With QuadTech tools, your operators spend less time learning, fine-tuning and troubleshooting … and more time being productive. That means less labor to deliver higher quality.

Newspaper

1982

Closed the loop on register control with the development of the RGS III.

1984

Introduced the Cutoff Control System.

1986

Introduced the RGS IV and Cutoff Control at Drupa.

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It’s what’s outside that counts

For most of your customers, packaging equals brand identity. Unassailable quality is a prerequisite to getting and keeping their business. At the same time, the fine print has never been more important to your customers. Regulatory requirements leave little room for packaging errors. A minute misregistration can result in huge costs for the manufacturer and printer.

QuadTech’s intelligent press controls optimize your press on even the most challenging jobs. Our precision inspection systems detect even the tiniest defects – throughout the entire run. The QuadTech® Inspection System with SpectralCam™ not only eliminates subjectivity, but calculates L*a*b*, ΔE, Density and ΔDensity at full press speeds, delivering defect-free, high-quality color faster. Direct, real-time digital viewing of the moving web with the QuadTech® Web Viewing System dramatically cuts waste and turnaround time. And, our monitoring, auditing and reporting systems add true traceability and accountability to your production process for optimum quality control.

Our list of next-generation solutions for this industry is extensive – and still growing. That means there’s no longer any need to choose between quality and profitability. QuadTech products deliver both … and enable you to do the same.

Flexibles & Folding Carton

1989

Formally opened QuadTech Europe in Weesp, The Netherlands.

Celebrated 100th RGS IV installation in Japan.

1990

Introduced the RGS V at Drupa.

1993

Opened the Asia-Pacific office officially in Singapore.

1994

Opened QuadTech, Inc. in Japan.

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2002

Acquired PressTech Controls Limited, inheriting 65 years of industry expertise.

Introduced Vector® camera for Register Guidance System.

1998

Introduced the Color Control System.

1996

Acquired Stacker Machine Company.

CorrugatedShorter and shorter product lifecycles, increased sales through special campaigns, and the fragmentation of consumer markets into different languages mean the consequent personalization of corrugated packaging. The potential for errors is strong, so set-up time takes longer and longer. Yet, the need to reduce costs is constant. QuadTech solutions are designed to optimize your press on even the most challenging jobs. Predictable quality, accurate color and defect-free results are made faster and easier to achieve. That means reduced waste, time, labor and cost. And a much sharper competitive edge. Modular and flexible, all QuadTech solutions are easily integrated as one complete closed-loop solution for total quality management.

Publication GravureAdvances in demographic targeting have opened new niche-market opportunities for publishers. You can capitalize on the resulting increases in titles and supplements. QuadTech has a range of automated press-control solutions designed to meet the challenges you face with shorter run publications, such as job changeover and makeready speed. We offer innovations such as electronic mark detection and tracking that optimize automatic performance profiles for faster makeready and higher quality. Leading-edge systems like the QuadTech® Autotron™ Gravure 2200 Register Guidance System that automatically makes necessary adjustments on the fly to maximize productivity.

DecorativeFrom floor coverings to wallpaper and countertops, decorative printing comes with its own set of challenges. The tiniest defect or color deviation can easily evade an operator’s critical eye, but stand out like a sore thumb when matched up to correctly printed product on a floor, wall or other area. The QuadTech® Autotron™ 2600 with ClearLogic™ gives you consistent print control regardless of substrate, or ink, improving print quality and minimizing waste. The QuadTech® Inspection System with SpectralCam™ is the only system that provides 100% defect inspection and true spectral color measurement. The result is defect-free printing and accurate, high-quality color.

1999

Acquired Bomac Signature Loader.

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Wherever you are, we’re there for you

We have a genuine desire to help you succeed. That’s why we’ll work to build a long-lasting, close relationship with you. As your strategic partner, we make sure we understand your challenges. Then, we can consistently deliver solutions that fuel your success.

For your convenience, our sales and service offices are located throughout the United States, Europe, Latin America, China, Singapore, Japan and India. Our products are sold in more than 100 countries. For one piece of equipment or for a network of global facilities, service is always available. Our dependable team of experts offers local support to keep you operating at peak productivity.

2007

Opened the China office in Shanghai.

Celebrated 100th installation of QuadTech press controls on a Manugraph press in India.

2005

Celebrated 25 years in the industry.

2004

Introduced the ICON™ platform, Data Central® and the MultiCam® camera.

2003

Introduced the Precisa™ Ink Control System.

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INSTALLATIONS THROUGHOUT THE RESTOF THE WORLD

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INSTALLATIONS IN CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA

2008

Introduced the SpectralCam™ camera for the Color Control System.

5,000th MultiCam® camera installation.

Introduced AccuCam™ camera for the Color Control System.

Acquired Vigitek Print Inspection Technology.

10189 SYSTEMS INSTALLED WORLDWIDE IN THE PAST 14 YEARS

2009

Celebrated 30 years of business.

Introduced the Inspection System with SpectralCam™.

2010

Introduced the Web Viewing System.

2011

10,000th MultiCam® camera installation.

Introduced web stabilization technology, allowing in-line color measurement on film.

Less waste. More reliability. Better quality. Peak performance. Looking to boost your bottom line through proven, profit- driven printing solutions? Call QuadTech today.

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