Print Integrity Verification

Print integrity and output verification solutions for high speed, high volume production of variable documents, mail, booklets, labels, plastic cards & flexible packaging.

Poor print integrity verification can lead to misplaced, duplicated or missing items, resulting in personalized and private data being sent to the wrong person, wasted promotional campaigns, increased waste, and so on. The repercussions (for the printer and their clients), could be substantial financial penalties, lengthy legal disputes, lost productivity in investigating issues, higher operational costs, lost revenue and worst still, poor publicity, loss of reputation and future business.

Lake Image Systems is an industry leader in the field of inline integrity management solutions for high speed, high volume production of variable documents, mail, booklets, labels, plastic cards and flexible packaging.

Some Print Integrity & output verification Solutions for Mailing applications

Typical Requirements

Reliable reading, verification and matching of a multitude of symbologies at high speeds including names and full alphanumeric text
Ability to check and verify sequence – either sequential numbers, match sequence against a database or complete integrity verification against the original print run input file
Ability to identify, track and verify correct collation, batching or stacking of items
Ability to verify address and postal sortation sequence
Ability to track and verify print integrity across multiple equipment and processes from printing to finishing to dispatch for end to end integrity
Ability to identify integrity issues (e.g. a duplicate label) across multiple jobs within a specified time-frame

Automate base stock/signature static verify & sequence verification for Binders and Booklet Makers.
Ability to divert, jog, mark and/or tab suspect items
Verify integrity of unique identifiers on cheques (MICR Line), currency, tax stamps and traceability labels
Ability to verify presence/absence, location and quality of specific text, logos and/or images
Ability to provide multiple simultaneous capabilities such as collation & sequence control, comparison to a data file, image archiving and integrity reporting at high production speeds.
Flexibility to easily change integrity configurations to adapt to changing customer requirements.

Ability to identify, track and verify correct collation, batching or stacking of items

Solutions for Print Integrity and Output Verification

Discovery’s Print Integrity & Output Verification Solution suite includes a comprehensive range of sequence and file-based verification tools. Documents and printed items can be checked against a predefined sequence, or the original print file, in real time, to confirm its integrity and to report on its status.

Transactional & Direct Mail

Production and fulfillment of statements, invoices, credit cards and election services documents require verification systems to verify output, identify errors and prove production integrity with absolute results. Lake Image Systems’ comprehensive reporting and tracking capabilities allow our customers to identify errors as they occur and prove the integrity of the final product. With cameras, scanners, and software specifically designed for a wide variety of mail production equipment, including sealed cameras which require no adjustment, our solutions are quickly adapted to the changing needs of this market.

Bindery and Finishing

Today’s bindery departments and service providers have a myriad of finishing equipment from guillotines and trimmers, folders and creasers, collators and booklet-makers to binders and laminators which gives them the flexibility to offer a wide range of finishing capabilities. Most of these require skilled personnel to precisely configure, setup and to constantly monitor, in order to ensure that a perfect booklet, catalog, magazine or bounded document is produced every time.

However, when something goes wrong it can be both time-consuming to trace the exact problem to a specific step or equipment, and very costly to reconfigure and set-up the various processing steps again to reproduce the work.

Lake Image’s DISCOVERY Bindery offers the latest generation of finishing integrity management solutions for all type of Bindery processes from Signature verification on Booklet markets to Read and Print solutions on poly wrappers.

DISCOVERY MULTISCAN Label Integrity Manager (LIM)

For multi-lane label production, DISCOVERY MULTISCAN Label Integrity Manager (LIM) tracks and collates information on each label in all lanes independently. 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 (in instances where the label sequence is across the web) to determine that the correct sequence is being maintained. For random or non-uniform increments, the variable information captured can be matched against a lookup file or database to detect missing or out of sequence labels.

After each lane on the web has been slit and rewound onto multiple reels, LIM drives a Zebra printer to produce a “closure” label, incorporating an identifying barcode, for each reel. LIM also provides this support for turret rewinders. At the inspection station, by scanning the closure barcode on each reel, the correct Roll Mapping file is automatically selected for subsequent inspection. This greatly simplifies and speeds up the inspection process, removes operator error and provides the Label Printer and the client with a quality audit file for each label reel.

Variable data integrity
Document integrity
Label integrity
Print workflow Integrity
Mail piece intergrity
Print integrity inspection
Output verification
Card to carrier match
Signature recognition
Read write verification

Products

Print inspection software, print integrity software, print inspection system, camera inspection system

Discovery Multiscan

A suite of bolt-on camera and scanner based output verification, print integrity verification and reporting solutions which integrate on new or legacy printing, inserting, bindery, plastic card or finishing equipment.

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job sharing, printing workflow, track and trace, print process control, re-print files, reprint files, print management, print production

Discovery Enterprise

A centralised production integrity management system which validates, checks and logs integrity errors (e.g. out of sequence, missing or duplication items) across multiple printers and finishing equipment and throughout an entire production workflow.

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Discovery Bindery

Provides collation and signature verification solutions for booklets, catalogs and magazines producers including base stock/signature static verify & sequence verification. Also verifies highly personalized applications personalized documents e.g. booklets, exam papers, personalized calendars, picture books etc. that require print file/DB reconciliation and full end to end production line tracking.

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Discovery Return Mail

A cost-effective solution for automating the process of scanning and capturing essential data from the returned mail. The solution easily scans, decodes and logs the essential data printed on the returned envelope into an electronic format for subsequent processing.

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