As newspaper vendors get ready for next week’s IfraExpo event in Vienna, press controls specialist QuadTech has announced that it has scooped rivals with an order from local hero Herold Druck und Verlag.

Its integrated spectral colour control and web inspection technology is to be installed on two Herold presses – two towers of a 1800mm-wide manroland Colorman XXL and three towers of a 1200mm-wide Colorman 4/2 press.

The smaller press with its inert UV curing system was a focus of attention during IfraExpo in 2009. Since then, Herold has ordered the triple-wide stablemate, which is expected to be operational this month.

The order for QuadTech’s Color Control and Web Inspection System with AccuCam is a coup for the US-based vendor. "We're very excited to begin a successful relationship with Herold Druck," says general manager for commercial and newspaper markets Vince Balistrieri. "Their drive to continually improve quality and speed – while improving operational efficiencies – fits perfectly with what can be accomplished using our technology.”

The QuadTech system will be linked to the presses through a centralised platform and linked to performance reporting module which stores quality and productivity parameters.

Herold Druck’s decision to install it followed an installation at Vorarlberger Medienhaus in Schwarzach. The product was launched following trials at Newsprinters’ Knowsley plant. It has also been installed at Sankei Shimbun in Osaka, Japan, enabling it to meet NSAC colour standards.

Independently owned since it was founded in 1893, Herold Druck prints daily and weekly newspapers, newspaper inserts and semi-commercial media for the Austrian market, using both heatset and coldset litho methods. Leading newspaper titles printed by the company include ‘Wiener Zeitung’, ‘Heute’ and ‘Die Presse’.