Grafiche Mercurio www.grafichemercurio.it, is the first company in the world to have implemented the new online regulation system developed by QuadTech, a global leader in control systems for printing machines www.quadtech.com, in collaboration with Always Color Expertise, a software house specialized in graphic arts applications www.alwancolor.com. Thanks to this important technological integration, Grafiche Mercurio is ranked among the largest manufacturers of printed advertising, magazines, brochures and labels of southern Italy. The system is capable of measuring the just printed color and to transfer the data in the prepress stage.
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The technology mastery of Grafiche Mercurio – Rassegna Grafica
Grafiche Mercurio of Angri (Salerno) can claim to be the first company worldwide to have implemented the new online color regulation system developed by QuadTech in collaboration with Alwan Color Expertise. For once it is an industrial reality of the center-south to achieve for the first time the goal of the technological innovation applied to the graphic arts.
The record, actually awaits for Grafiche Mercurio S.p.A. of Angri (Salerno), the first graphic company in the world to have implemented the new online color regulatory system developed by QuadTech, a global leader in control systems for printing machines, in collaboration with Alwan Color Expertise, a software house specialized in graphic arts applications.
The system adopted by Grafiche Mercurio, represents the state-of-the-art in automized management of quality and chromatic consistency in the production of four color printing on rotating offset, allowing the company to achieve the same excellence standards in color reproduction as the ones already achieved in the sheetfed department. Essentially, the system is able to measure the color as it is printed and to transfer the data to the software in the prepress stage. Any deviation of the standard condition is automatically detected and the software will generate real-time tone curves needed for correction, in a way that the press is in accordance with the specifications of ISO 12647-2.
When the colors speak Italian – Italia Grafica
A historic development for the packaging printing industry , that combines the advantages of the measurements of on-line and off-line colors to notably reduce the downtime of the press and the scraps. Thanks to a solution presented by QuadTech and set up thanks to the whole Italian direction of Color Consulting.
The south that believes in the south grows
Spot Ministry of Economic Development – National operational program of local entrepreneurship development.
The expansion of the potential of printing
The inaugural event of the new plant and the press Goss Sunday 4000/48, organized by Grafiche Mercurio in collaboration with Macchingraf and Heidelberg. Sergio Franzi, president of Macchingraf offers to the Mercurio family an acknowledgment for being Innovation Pioneers of graphic technology in the south of Italy.
Constant quality and chromatic fidelity, certified by ISO-12647: the new technological record of Grafiche Mercurio
Milan, October 16th, 2012 – For once it is an industrial reality of the center-south to achieve for the first time the goal of the technological innovation applied to the graphic arts. The record, actually awaits for Grafiche Mercurio S.p.A. of Angri (Salerno), the first graphic company in the world to have implemented the new online color regulatory system developed by QuadTech, a global leader in control systems for printing machines, in collaboration with Alwan Color Expertise, a software house specialized in graphic arts applications. Thanks to this important technological integration, Grafiche Mercurio is at the cutting edge among the largest manufacturers of printed advertising, magazines, brochures, and labels of southern Italy.
The system adopted by Grafiche Mercurio, represents the state-of-the-art in automized management of quality and chromatic consistency in the production of four color printing on rotating offset, allowing the company to achieve the same excellence standards in color reproduction as the ones already achieved in the sheetfed department. Essentially, the system is able to measure the color as it is printed and to transfer the data to the software in the prepress stage. Any deviation of the standard condition is automatically detected and the software will generate real-time tone curves needed for correction, in a way that the press is in accordance with the specifications of ISO 12647-2.
Furthermore, the installation of the new online regulation and correction system has allowed Grafiche Mercurio to successfully complete strict checks for certification under the international standard Fogra ISP 12647-2: approval that our country has obtained for a limited number of printers (not more than 10). For the clients of the company of Angri, who range from large-scale distribution groups to the food industry and companies from various commercial sectors, the immediate benefits of Grafiche Mercurio’s fresh world record are is a guarantee of constant and certified quality of the printing, with an absolute adherence to the color printing proofs edition after edition.
“We are proud of being the first company in the world to have chosen and installed this technological solution, that enables us to always answer better to our clients’ requests,” says Diodato Mercurio, sole director of Grafiche Mercurio. “We believe that this important innovation and adherence to international quality standards will help us be even more competitive on every front, starting ith the segment of the printed catalogs and for the chains of Modern Distribution”.
Fogra Certification
Constant quality and chromatic fidelity, ISO-12647 certificate:
the new technological supremacy of Grafiche Mercurio
Milan, October 16th, 2012 – For once is a reality for the South-Center to acquire the first place of the technological innovations in the graphic arts. The record, actually, belongs to Grafiche Mercurio S.p.A of Angri (Salerno) the first graphic company in the world to have implemented the new online regulation system developed by QuadTech, a global leader in control systems for printing machines, in collaboration with Alwan Color Expertise, a software house specialized in applications for the graphic arts.
Thanks to this important technological integration, Grafiche Mercurio is at the cutting edge among the largest manufacturers of printed advertising, magazines, brochures, and labels of southern Italy. The system adopted by Grafiche Mercurio, represents the state-of-the-art in automized management of quality and chromatic consistency in the production of four color printing on rotating offset, allowing the company to achieve the same excellence standards in color reproduction as the ones already achieved in the sheetfed department.
Essentially, the system is able to measure the color as it is printed and to transfer the data to the software in the prepress stage. Any deviation of the standard condition is automatically detected and the software will generate real-time tone curves needed for correction, in a way that the press is in accordance with the specifications of ISO 12647-2. Furthermore, the installation of the new online regulation and correction system has allowed Grafiche Mercurio to successfully complete strict checks for certification under the international standard Fogra ISP 12647-2: approval that our country has obtained for a limited number of printers (not more than 10).
For the clients of the company of Angri, who range from large-scale distribution groups to the food industry and companies from various commercial sectors, the immediate benefits of Grafiche Mercurio’s fresh world record are is a guarantee of constant and certified quality of the printing, with an absolute adherence to the color printing proofs edition after edition.
“We are proud of being the first company in the world to have chosen and installed this technological solution, that enables us to always answer better to our clients’ requests,” says Diodato Mercurio, sole director of Grafiche Mercurio.
“We believe that this important innovation and adherence to international quality standards will help us be even more competitive on every front, starting ith the segment of the printed catalogs and for the chains of Modern Distribution”.
Grafiche Mercurio in the convention of Legambiente (League for the Environment) “Sustainability: meeting field between Distribution and Printing”
Angri, January 21st, 2012 – Grafiche Mercurio SpA, one of the most competitive industries of graphic arts, has decided to support the conference sponsored by Legambiente “Sustainability: meeting ground between Distribution and Printing”, that will be held next February 7th in Milan at the Columns Rooms (Sala Colonne) of the BPM, with the objective of photographing the relationship between GDO and enterprises in a sustainable way.
The company that works for over 40 years with major chains of the GDO meeting their needs in terms of speed, efficiency and quality in production, makes of itself a spokesman of the need to create an effective synergy between the worlds of distribution and printing through the creation of an integrated sustainable supply chain, in order to be able to offer the consumers concrete and sustainable solutions.
With this in mind, Grafiche Mercurio has integrated the objectives underpinning the conference with the aim of contributing to the creation of a culture in an industry that is increasingly becoming essential and strategic for every reality that the market faces.
Oriented do the excellence by tradition and passion
Grafiche Mercurio di Angri (SA) is among the most important industrial reality, technologically advanced and competitive in southern Italy in the graphic arts industry. The company is based in the valley of the Agro Sarnese-Nocerino, between Naples and Salerno, and its productive structure nowadays covers an overall surface of 10,000 square meters, of which 5,000 are covered. Despite the considerable size, the high level of process automation and the use of advanced machinery, united for the technology and performance of central-southern Italy, Grafiche Mercurio has conserved the best of the values of the small artisanal printing of over 50 years ago by the father of the current owners. In the Angri establishment, the absolute dedication to work, precision, and punctuality in deliveries is something tangible, as well as the will to progress, to improve continuously and to compete with innovation in order to give customers flawless results.
