Integrated Web-Offset Inking Control System

The development of the web-offset inking control for the Technical Research Center's trial press has progressed so far that we have now constructed a fully automated printing production sequence beginning with presetting and continuing through the sequences for start up, increase of press speed, closed-loop density control during the productions and stopping the press on completion of the edition. All these production sequences are accomplished under the control of the process computer of the system. Other components of the system are the plate-scanner for presetting the inker, the web densitometer and the remote control console. This paper is a contribution of our TAGA papers of 1979-1981.