Smartphone Microscope

For over a century, the packaging industry has relied on portable eyeglass magnifiers to tirelessly ensure production quality.

The packaging industry has relied on the humble eyeglass for hundreds of years. The BOBST Smartphone Microscope gives the eyeglass superpowers by extending it with new digital capabilities. Its optimised design gives production teams a consistent basis to make decisions, share findings, verify checks, and train new members more effectively.

In an industry where precision is paramount, the BOBST Smartphone Microscope defines a new standard.

Enhance your quality control, reduce waste, and strengthen your team's knowledge base.

FEATURES

• Bright LEDs in the smartphone microscope make it easy to validate that colours are in register and the ink pressure is correct. Moving the microscope over a varnish area makes it easy to see if the varnish has been applied correctly or not.
   
• In the folding carton industry, world-class hot-foil operators use the smartphone microscope to achieve the ideal makeready in less time; easily see if print and foil are concentric, and note the move amounts.
   
• Using the side lights of the smartphone microscope it is easy to validate the print and embossing registration, so it can be corrected if necessary. Similarly, it can inspect creases to determine if they are on-edge or well-formed.
   
• Many operators in the packaging industry are visual thinkers who learn by example.  Use the built in apps on the smartphone to create a library of good quality and bad quality examples, that can be used to teach new staff what to look out for.
   
• Connect with the BOBST ecosystem of Digital Tools. Send inspection photographs directly into the Digital Inspection Table quality reports. Alternatively, share and stream directly with coworkers (e.g., ink supplier) via enterprise apps like Microsoft Teams.
   
• The magnetic base in the device makes sure it is always to hand at a station.  The magnetic charging cable works for both the phone and the microscope.  The product ergonomics are is optimised for a packaging environment and suitable for corrugated, carton, flexibles, and labels.
   

• Experience new levels of precision and consistency with the Smartphone Microscope from BOBST.