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Basys finds new life with uv diodes Basys, the first company to pioneer uv platesetting has also switched to the new generation of laser diodes in its imaging head. This has doubled exposure speed on the platesetter. Several diodes are mounted on the outside of the head, the light energy is concentrated and then channelled through the Issue Date: January 2008
China offers great expectations China is becoming a very important market for ctp, both in purchasing platesetters and building them. Demand from the Chinese and other emerging markets is expected to compensate for the decline in platesetter sales to the mature markets of Europe, America and Japan. However the requirement is for Issue Date: January 2008
FFEI aims at Indian papers Another of the new platesetters aimed at regional newspapers is the Alinte News, sold under the FFEI brand. Before taking it on the machine had been developed in Germany by Dotline. This a violet diode machine, offering a higher throughput than a thermal platesetter. In its highest specification wi Issue Date: January 2008
Heidelberg prepares for VLF press While there are no announcements as yet, Heidelberg will launch larger format versions of its Suprasetter platesetters at Drupa. The Suprasetter has already proved to be its most successful platesetter design with well over 1,500 units shipped. In all Heidelberg has shipped more than 6,000 platesett Issue Date: January 2008
Highwater ups format to B1 The UK retains a second CTP manufacturer in Highwater Designs in Cheltenham. It was acquired by US company Printware in 2006, but this has not affected the direction of development. Indeed last year Highwater introduced its first B1 platesetter, the Cobra8. This is a manual violet diode platesetter Issue Date: January 2008
Kodak handling needed at VLF formats With the increasing formats of web offset presses, leading to the development of 96pp format machines, there is a need to change the way that plates are handled and imaged. Kodak is the first to offer a solution with an automated pallet loader intended to replace manual handling of plates into the p Issue Date: January 2008
Newspapers provide market hopes With the majority of commercial printers in the developed world now operating with CTP, the focus for platesetter manufacturers is shifting towards niche areas as well as to the developing world. The biggest of these is newspapers where demand for plates and for platesetters is continuing to grow th Issue Date: January 2008
Plate production shake up mooted The interest in conventional plates comes at a time when the big three plate producers are finding it less and less economical to continue producing conventional presensitised plates on their own production lines. Laser-imaged plates now account for more than 80% of consumption in the mature markets Issue Date: January 2008
Processless violet due this year Drupa will see the commercial release of at least two no-process violet plates as both Agfa and Fuji have signalled their intent to introduce plates at the show. Fuji first discussed the plate four years ago and has shown samples and demonstrated it at shows since, most recently at Igas in Japan l Issue Date: January 2008
UV imaging is back The increasing power of violet laser diodes is reviving interest in computer to conventional plate with Swiss platesetter producer Lüscher planning to make this the centre of its stand at Drupa. The xPose UV platesetter has 64 diodes each delivering 130 milliwatts, a huge leap from the 5mW that the Issue Date: January 2008

Basys finds new life with uv diodes

Basys, the first company to pioneer uv platesetting has also switched to the new generation of laser diodes in its imaging head. This has doubled exposure speed on the platesetter. Several diodes are mounted on the outside of the head, the light energy is concentrated and then channelled through the
Issue Date: January 2008

China offers great expectations

China is becoming a very important market for ctp, both in purchasing platesetters and building them. Demand from the Chinese and other emerging markets is expected to compensate for the decline in platesetter sales to the mature markets of Europe, America and Japan. However the requirement is for
Issue Date: January 2008

FFEI aims at Indian papers

Another of the new platesetters aimed at regional newspapers is the Alinte News, sold under the FFEI brand. Before taking it on the machine had been developed in Germany by Dotline. This a violet diode machine, offering a higher throughput than a thermal platesetter. In its highest specification wi
Issue Date: January 2008

Heidelberg prepares for VLF press

While there are no announcements as yet, Heidelberg will launch larger format versions of its Suprasetter platesetters at Drupa. The Suprasetter has already proved to be its most successful platesetter design with well over 1,500 units shipped. In all Heidelberg has shipped more than 6,000 platesett
Issue Date: January 2008

Highwater ups format to B1

The UK retains a second CTP manufacturer in Highwater Designs in Cheltenham. It was acquired by US company Printware in 2006, but this has not affected the direction of development. Indeed last year Highwater introduced its first B1 platesetter, the Cobra8. This is a manual violet diode platesetter
Issue Date: January 2008

Kodak handling needed at VLF formats

With the increasing formats of web offset presses, leading to the development of 96pp format machines, there is a need to change the way that plates are handled and imaged. Kodak is the first to offer a solution with an automated pallet loader intended to replace manual handling of plates into the p
Issue Date: January 2008

Newspapers provide market hopes

With the majority of commercial printers in the developed world now operating with CTP, the focus for platesetter manufacturers is shifting towards niche areas as well as to the developing world. The biggest of these is newspapers where demand for plates and for platesetters is continuing to grow th
Issue Date: January 2008

Plate production shake up mooted

The interest in conventional plates comes at a time when the big three plate producers are finding it less and less economical to continue producing conventional presensitised plates on their own production lines. Laser-imaged plates now account for more than 80% of consumption in the mature markets
Issue Date: January 2008

Processless violet due this year

Drupa will see the commercial release of at least two no-process violet plates as both Agfa and Fuji have signalled their intent to introduce plates at the show. Fuji first discussed the plate four years ago and has shown samples and demonstrated it at shows since, most recently at Igas in Japan l
Issue Date: January 2008

UV imaging is back

The increasing power of violet laser diodes is reviving interest in computer to conventional plate with Swiss platesetter producer Lüscher planning to make this the centre of its stand at Drupa. The xPose UV platesetter has 64 diodes each delivering 130 milliwatts, a huge leap from the 5mW that the
Issue Date: January 2008