German publisher and newspaper printer Heider Verlag has updated its QI colour registration systems with the Dutch vendor’s latest technology.

The company prints a variety of work on a line including two KBA Journal towers and one Colora – installed in 2002 and 2006 – each with its own folder.

Established in 1889, the family-owned business employs 90 staff and operates in the commercial sheetfed and newspaper offset segments, printing weekly newspapers, advertising journals, membership newspapers and catalogue-like products in lengths typically between 5000 and several hundred thousand copies.

The new, fully automatic QI Press Controls systems include mRC-3D colour and cut-off register and ABD fan-out correction.

"The main motivation is that one of our four-high towers has not had colour register control until now, and the systems in the other towers no longer represent the state of the art with regard to hardware and software or speed and efficiency,” says managing director Roberto Heider (pictured).

Apart from fixed rollers, the presses had also lacked an effective solution to correct for fan-out. “In other words, this purchase will bring the control technology for all of our newspaper presses in line with a uniform, modern standard," he says.