In the Consumer and Office Electronics sector, vision is being used to inspect a variety of products including cell phones, pagers, electrical test instruments, calculators, and electronic medical instruments. Factors responsible for the growing use of vision in this sector include the production of higher-resolution displays with smaller pixels, more characters on a single screen, more use of color in the displays, and the inconsistency of manual inspection. Increasing production volumes are causing printer manufacturers to become increasingly automated. In addition to increasing throughput, automation is helping manufacturers improve quality and reduce cost.
Machine vision plays a key role in automating the printer production process.