Bhiwandi-based Paramount Arts and Prints has completed the installation process of the Autoprint Checkmate 50 inspection system, which will allow the pharmaceutical packaging specialist to inspect finished products for defects. The installation of inspection system follows the firm’s investment in a Bobst Expertfold machine made in January this year.

Speaking to PrintWeek India, Surendra Tulsiyan, director at Paramount, said, “I was seeking an inspection machine that could find defects at the end of the line, where defective prints end up as scrap. The fact that Checkmate was indigenously manufactured had the best of the lenses in Chromasens, and trustworthy brands attached to it, tilted the decision in favour of this machine.”

The “Make in India” Autoprint Checkmate 50 is an offline inspection machine for print defects and foil errors. The machine’s part is manufactured at the Autoprint’s Coimbatore plant and the camera technology is by Lucid Imaging, Bangalore.

N Prabhu, business head - post printing machines, said, “The machine neatly segregates the good and defective sheets into different stacks which can be further analysed to correct the previous process. The machine is compact in size, user-friendly, easy to operate and offers value for money.”
 
The machine is designed to check nearly 40,000 cartons per hour.

Tulsiyan said, “The machine has helped us in providing our customer with zero defects like broken texts, colour spot, Braille dot missing among others. We have not received a single complaint from our customer since, we installed the machine.”

Paramount which shifted base to Bhiwandi in 2007 from Mazgaon in South Mumbai due to space constraints has gradually equipped its new 24,000 facility with state-of-the-art equipments to cater to pharmaceutical and FMCG packaging industry.

The Checkmate 50 at Paramount is Autoprint’s second installation, which is supplied through Raka Enterprises, the manufacturer’s authorised representative in Mumbai.