Applications: Image and Print QC Tools for All Technologies

Learn how manufacturers, remanufacturers and suppliers in your own area of interest use QEA instruments to solve problems, and find out how we can provide the solutions you need.

EP/laser printers and components

EP print quality. Top printer and component manufacturers around the world use a range of QEA systems for R&D, production QC and benchmarking. To ensure that they deliver the high-quality prints consumers expect and to understand how they stack up against the competition, these clients depend on our IAS image analysis systems. Our tools eliminate guesswork and efficiently quantify the fundamental image elements (dots, lines, and solid areas) and quality attributes (dot gain, line width, sharpness, density, contrast, image noise, tone reproduction, color registration, ghosting, jitter and a host of other characteristics). If you want to test how your printer or printer component performs with different inks, toners, media or other variables, the IAS product line has the tools you need.
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Photoreceptors. Drum manufacturers depend on our PDT products to test the electrostatic properties of their OPCs. Defects in the electrophotographic behavior of a drum mean defects in print quality. Charge acceptance, photo-discharge, dark decay, cyclic fatigue, PDIC, time of flight, and capacitance are all critical to print quality, as are coating uniformity and physical defects. Over many years, QEA’s PDT technology, based on quantifying these essential predictors, has proven to be the most reliable for evaluating drums. If you want to be sure your drums give customers optimum-quality prints, our PDT products are the tools for you.
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Semi-insulating devices and materials. Suppliers of primary charger rollers (PCRs), mag rollers, transfer rollers, and elastomers are among QEA clients using the CRT, MRT, and DRA family of products to monitor product development and performance. Component quality is critical to ultimate print quality, and suppliers need fast, dependable ways of predicting performance. Our test systems help you control the determinants of print quality, including coating thickness, uniformity and resistivity, as well as component performance within the printer environment.
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Inkjet printers and components

Inkjet print quality. Historically, it has been impossible to predict inkjet printer or printhead quality accurately until prints were actually produced. Manufacturers and suppliers need reliable data much earlier in the process. For this reason, major inkjet head manufacturers rely on QEA’s IAS products to measure jetting straightness, drop position, drop size, satellite dots, missing dots and many other critical quality measures. Our IAS systems evaluate their overall printer performance with measures such as banding, jitter and coalescence. If you are looking for fast, reliable performance monitoring, whether for R&D, production QC or competitive benchmarking, our IAS products are the tools you need.
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Chemicals, toners, inks, ribbons, and transfer belts

Testing formulations and processes. QEA’s EP instruments, including our PDT drum test systems and TFS toner fusing system, are vital to chemical suppliers for testing their formulations and processes. Our PDT systems speed testing of substrates, coatings and other aspects of drum design. The TFS Toner Fusing System lets you quantify the many variables, including media, toner and component design, affecting fusing quality.
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The same manufacturers, among many others, also rely on our IAS image analysis systems to evaluate the performance of their products as measured by the ultimate quality of the print.
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Ink formulations. Ink manufacturers and toner suppliers use our IAS products to monitor critical interactions and determine product performance with different media and printers. If you want to know how your inks will perform with different papers and in different printing environments, or if you want to know how your formulations perform as compared with the competition, our IAS systems have the answers for you. Our IAS systems apply ISO-13660 print quality standards in quantifying dots, lines, text, density, mottle, banding, satellites, inter-color bleed and the full array of print quality attributes. IAS systems eliminate the guesswork.
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Transfer belts. Transfer belt manufacturers use QEA’s DRA systems to check quality and performance by measuring the electrostatic properties of the belt, properties critical to toner transfer and hence to print quality. To find out how your transfer belts will perform electrostatic transfer in real-world conditions, our DRA systems are vital tools.
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Media: Papers, films, coatings, and substrates

Media manufacturers need reliable ways to evaluate media performance with different inks, toners and printers. They also need quantitative methods for benchmarking media against objective quality standards. These companies use QEA’s DRA systems to monitor performance (click to go to semi-ins device page ») and our IAS products for benchmarking and technical support (click to go to IAS page »). If your product is any type of media or media component and you need to assess runnability, printability and usability, our DRA and TFS systems are critical tools for measuring and mapping dielectric relaxation in the paper and determining fusing latitude. For quantifying performance as measured by print quality, our IAS systems are the tools of choice.

Remanufactured cartridges and components

EP cartridge remanufacturers. If you are a cartridge or component remanufacturer, you need fast, reliable ways to assess component quality (EP behavior, charge/discharge uniformity, coating thickness, etc.), make pass/fail decisions, and reliably predict the performance of your product. Remanufacturers of toner cartridges use our PDT and ECT systems to determine pass/fail criteria for incoming components such as OPC drums (click to go to drum systems »). With our DRA system, they monitor PCR and magnetic roller quality (click to go to DRA »). To QC magnets, they use the MFA system for evaluating magnetic field distribution (click to go to MFA »). To monitor overall cartridge performance, they turn to our IAS image analysis systems, which eliminate guesswork and efficiently quantify the ultimate quality of the printed page (click to go to IAS »).

Inkjet remanufacturers. Remanufacturers of inkjet cartridges need to be able to predict, quantify and compare the print quality their products deliver. Our IAS image analysis tools measure image elements and print quality attributes including dot gain, line width, sharpness, density, contrast, noise, tone reproduction, ghosting, jitter and the full range of print quality criteria. These are essential measures of product quality, of product performance in the presence of real-world variables, and of how your product stacks up against the competition.
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Flexographic machinery, chemicals, and supplies

Flexo printer manufacturers, flexo plate chemical suppliers and multinational flexo packaging companies use QEA’s flexo products to monitor process quality from film to plate to final print. They use the Flexo IAS and Flexo M handheld tools for field service, technical support, and competitive benchmarking. QEA's line of flexo products helps you evaluate masks, films, and photopolymer- and metal-backed sleeves and plates, as well as the final print.
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High security printers and law enforcement

For applications in high security printing QC, please contact our partner
KBA-GIORI, SA, for more information.

Other applications

If you do not see your application described above, please call or email us. We are here to serve you.
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