Web press control systems developer QuadTech says response to its new colour and defect management solutions for packaging converters has been "phenomenal".

The company's move into packaging printing is in line with that being made by a number of other makers and developers responding to the diminishing market for newspaper and magazine press systems.

The company is showing a new ColorTrack workflow system for packaging at Labelexpo Europe in Brussels in September.

President Karl Fritchen says the technology launched at DRUPA has been shown at a number of key events this year and "the feedback we have received from packaging converters has been phenomenal". Reaction at DRUPA indicated the potential impact ColorTrack and DeltaCam could have on the industry, and Fritchen says QuadTech is delighted to hear "such positive feedback" directly from the market.

ColorTrack colour management software for flexo and gravure packaging is a highly adaptive "colour expert in a box" solution for packaging printers, allowing press-side correction of ink formulations to automate the process of delivering absolute consistency "from press-to-press, shift-to-shift, and plant-to-plant" without hardware modifications. QuadTech will demonstrate seven "colour management breakthroughs" which it says are worldwide firsts.