Smart Printing Quality Control for Jiangsu Phoenix Xinhua Printing Group

Background

In the autumn semester of 2025, a new batch of textbooks revised under the latest national curriculum standards was officially introduced across Jiangsu Province. To meet the higher requirements for textbook printing quality, nearly 60 sets of online and offline inspection systems have been installed in designated printing enterprises across the province. These include companies under the Phoenix Publishing & Media Group, as well as Huaiyin Xinhua, Nanjing Amity Printing, and Suzhou Mycolor, among others.

As one of the leading forces in textbook and educational publication printing, Jiangsu Phoenix Xinhua Printing Group (hereinafter referred to as Phoenix Printing Group) has placed digital transformation and intelligent quality control at the core of its operations. Through “smart transformation and digital upgrading,” the company has achieved intelligent inspection throughout the entire printing process, ensuring consistent, high-quality output.

Challenges

With the implementation of the new national standards, printing enterprises faced stricter quality control demands — including higher precision for color consistency, registration accuracy, and defect detection. Traditional manual inspection methods could no longer keep up with the volume and precision required for large-scale textbook production.

Solution

To guarantee both efficiency and printing accuracy, Phoenix Printing Group upgraded all rotary printing presses with inline inspection systems. These systems perform real-time defect, color deviation, and registration error detection during printing.

In addition, offline inspection systems were deployed for first print inspection and random quality checks, ensuring quality consistency across entire print batches.

On the prepress side, Phoenix Printing Group integrated the Smart Proof Books software for proof comparison, file verification, and RIP file checking, effectively eliminating potential issues before printing.

Results

With the help of intelligent inspection technologies, Phoenix Printing Group can now handle printing speeds of up to 45,000 sheets per hour, while maintaining excellent color accuracy and defect-free output. The self-developed vision inspection software precisely identifies and analyzes common printing flaws, including:

• Missing or broken text strokes
• Ink density and color variation
• Registration misalignment
• Paper contamination
• Dot loss or deformation

Through these advanced quality control solutions, Phoenix Printing Group has continuously maintained top-tier product quality and has been recognized with multiple quality awards. The company has also achieved zero-error textbook delivery for consecutive years, successfully completing the critical mission of ensuring “textbooks delivered before class, one copy for each student.”

Conclusion

Through comprehensive intelligent quality inspection and digital transformation, Jiangsu Phoenix Xinhua Printing Group has set a new benchmark for textbook and educational publication printing in Jiangsu Province. By integrating SINOMV’s advanced vision inspection technologies, the company not only improved production efficiency and accuracy but also ensured absolute reliability in educational material delivery. This successful cooperation demonstrates how smart manufacturing and AI-driven quality control can empower the printing industry to achieve higher standards of excellence.