Hooper Printer Slotter, vintage late 1950's
5-axis Pacesetter installed in August 2005 on a four-color 50” Hooper printer slotter. This more than forty-year-old four-color machine was rugged and well maintained. The plant added reverse angle doctor blade flexo printing, lead edge feeder and IMC's Pacesetter. While the fast computer set-up was desirable, the principal advantage was freeing the operators from the need to “zero” or close the machine “in time” and the automatic return to last register after printing plate-cleaning stops. The result of these upgrades was a productive machine capable of high graphic printing with many of the features of the latest equipment, but at drastically lower cost.
Operator Station Next To Machine		Typical register encoding mounting
Mitsubishi FFG, vintage 1986
19-axis Pacesetter installed in August 2005 on a Summit 100 flexo folder gluer.  The Pacesetter replaces the original obsolete, complex and difficult to maintain MHI system.
Operator Side View		Computer enclosure with open door		Operator's Console in front of folding section
Langston FFG, vintage 1992
28-axis LMC replacement installed in 2005 on a Langston Saturn.  The original encoders, wiring and enclosures were retained.  Only the obsolete computer, monitor and keyboard were replaced.
Computer enclosure shown after the installation		Front of operator console after the installation
Hooper Printer, vintage early 1960's
7-axis Pacesetter installed in 2004 on a six-color 50” Hooper printer.  This machine, which had not previously been equipped with computer control, was being used to produce high quality multi-color boxes and suffered from very long set-up times.  The Pacesetter added control of all registers along with jam detection and sequential anilox roll control resulting in much improved print accuracy and greatly reduced set-up times.
Computer enclosure		Computer enclosure with open door		Machine overall view		Operator's console
Ward FFG, vintage 1973
8-axis Pacesetter installed in 2002 on a Ward.  The machine was originally fitted with an 8-axis G&L computer, subsequently upgraded by Ward about twenty years later. We replaced Ward’s analog resolvers with new high-resolution digital encoders and replaced the obsolete Ward computer hardware within the original enclosure with a new industrial quality PC, new color flat panel display and computer keyboard.
Operators console with open door after the installation		Operators console after the installation		Operator side of the machine
Langston FFG, vintage 1980's
12-axis LMC replacement installed in 2001 on a Saturn.  The LMC had previously received Langston’s “shoebox” upgrade in the late 1990s.  As a result IMC’s upgrade was simple and inexpensive.  We retained the existing passive backplane industrial MiTAC enclosure but replaced the CPU card, input/ output cards and software.  The result is a fully supportable system equivalent to IMC's latest product offering.
Overall view of the computer box with MiTAC computer before the modification		MiTAC enclosure after the upgrade		View of the input/output section after the upgrade