We have finished installing a state-of-the-art camera system in the NY area. 32 cameras on the gatherer and 1 at the cover feeder replaced an older system and are now working together in the Code128C+ mode to ensure the best protection for more than 600 languages the customer is producing. read more…
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WST OBS Blank Sheet Control install
PFP has just upgraded 4 folders (3x MBO and 1x Horizon) with the WST OBC Blank sheet control. Due to the customers new security jobs on the folders this upgrade was necessary to detect any possible blank sheet that is coming thru the folders. The WST family of post press read more…
Retrofit with 100% Quality
WST, a leading manufacture for bindery quality controls and signature recognition systems has partnered up with a young company established by experienced Ex-Heidelberg employees. This partnership is helping Heidelberg owners to support their equipment better and furthermore is assisting in retrofit their existent saddle stitcher or perfect binder to implement read more…
WST Aqua-Jet sold!
PFP has sold the WST Aqua-Jet in the Midwest. This system is the perfect solution for transporting book stacks with slick covers and has proven itself already at work. This plug-gable and move-able system is easy to transport and set-up. The water spray nozzle is targeting the products in front read more…
Press release Master Graphics
Master Graphics, Atlanta invests in quality controls PFP has just completed the installation of a WST CAM 4-60 camera system on an Muller Martini Starbinder at Master Graphics. The high resolution camera system was added to the MM gatherer and cover deck of the Starbinder in order to have images read more…
GC1-1 glue camera goes South!
WST GC1-1 thermal glue camera install in Brazil Geografica Editora based in Santo Andre, Brazil has purchased the first WST GC1-1 thermo camera in South America! PFP has just finished the installation on the Kolbus perfect binder KM473 equipped with a PUR and EVA glue roller system that now has read more…
New WST CAM4-60 Camera Control System
Introducing the new WST Cam 4-60 WST, a German based company was founded 1975 and is operating worldwide, manufacturing signature recognition systems and bindery quality control systems. The new designed high-resolution camera system WST Cam 4-60 is developed especially for gathering machines and saddle stitchers. It sets new standards in read more…
WST OBC Barcode 100% solution
Leading suppliers of signature recognition systems where invited with their technical solutions for an intensive test at a CPI facility in Germany. This test was done to show CPI in which direction they need to go to get the best results to improve the quality on all the binding equipment’s read more…
WST Barcode reader number 10,000
On December 12th 2007, Knut Krueger, WST VP International Sales, delivered the 10,000th OBC Barcode Reader sold to Heiko Heinemann, GGP Media, a division of the Mohn Media Group. The WST Barcode Signature Recognition System is in high demand in binderies all over the world. Binderies understand the value of read more…
WST builds new manufacturing facility
February 1st, 2008 was the first day of full production at WST’s new facility in Rahden, Germany. The exacting manufacturing standards needed to build WST’s sophisticated barcode equipment required a ‘clean room’ like those built for microchip manufacturers. The new facility is more efficient and allows the company to ramp read more…
More WST Barcode Readers for the CPI Group
After purchasing the first WST OBC4-60 Barcode reading system back in Aug/2011 (we reported the intensive testing from systems of all leading suppliers) the CPI daughter in Ulm, Germany, Ebner & Spiegel has now added this system to all other remaining gathering machines from MM and Kolbus. The CPI group read more…