CTP

Jet Technologies partners with Screen for local PlateRite launch [CTP]

2010-03-08T03:50:00+01:00

Screen has teamed up with Jet Technologies for the local launch of Screen’s PlateRite FX CTP series, which the company says offers optimal flexo/letter press plate output for printing and prepress companies. The machine made its Australian debut at Jet Technologies’ Mascot showroom last week, where a number of narrow web printers attended.

Jet Technologies partners with Screen for local PlateRite launch [CTP]

2010-03-08T03:00:00+01:00

Inkjet delivers new CTP technology [CTP]

2010-03-07T18:23:00+01:00

The new iCTP solution from Glunz & Jensen uses an innovative inkjet system to produce metal plates with no chemistry, in daylight, and at low cost

Prepress with Agfa [CTP]

2010-03-07T17:20:00+01:00

Frederik Dehing, president of prepress giant Agfa Oceania, gives his assessment of the direction prepress is taking as we move into 2010

Xanté PlateMaker5 meets key criteria says QPT [CTP]

2010-03-07T13:38:00+01:00

Quick Print Technologies says the Xanté PlateMaker5 system has the capabilities to meet printers’ key criteria for their move up to CtP. Quick Print, the Australasian distributer for Xanté, outlines that the technology of the PM5 assures clean plates, crisp film, sharp images, accurate registration and exact halftones

New solutions in CTP [CTP]

2010-03-07T13:27:00+01:00

There are plenty of options for printers looking at CTP with Grafika Links offering some innovative solutions

ECRM enhancing productivity [CTP]

2010-03-07T13:00:00+01:00

Supplied by Currie Group the US manufactured ECRM workflow and CTP solutions provide increased productivity benefits for printers

Screen providing digital integration through Equiosnet [CTP]

2010-03-05T14:44:00+01:00

Well known prepress pioneer Screen is now moving rapidly to developing solutions that will enable printers to realise all the benefits of the digital era

Prepress provides key to print power [CTP]

2010-03-03T14:34:00+01:00

Nothing stands still in prepress, with workflow solutions and CTP systems continuing to provide opportunities for printers, reports Wayne Robinson

Streamline Press up capacity with additional Agfa CTP device [CTP]

2010-02-20T03:00:00+01:00

Streamline Press located in Fitzroy, VIC has installed an additional Agfa CTP device, which it claims gives it the capability to increase output capacity by a further 45 Goss Community plates per hour. The new :Advantage N-SA CTP with :VPP68 processor has been recently installed in addition to the existing Polaris CTP.

Frontline Technologies: prepress for a global market [CTP]

2010-02-15T17:22:00+01:00

Frontline Technologies offers an abundance of prepress solutions and is encouraging printers to look at solutions providing automation and quality control that will allow them to compete in the 21st century global market

Fujifilm connects Broderick Print with new opportunities [CTP]

2010-02-13T14:03:00+01:00

Having installed a Fujifilm Acuity Printer, Fujifilm CtP technology, and XMF software, Broderick Print, on Auckland’s North Shore, is taking advantage of opportunities that never existed before the digital technology arrived

Connecting with consumables [CTP]

2009-12-15T09:52:00+01:00

Connecting with opportunity not only applies to Fujifilm Graphic System’s solutions for presses, CTP, and photobooks, it also means taking advantage of the range of consumables that Fujifilm has to offer

Sixty years of change powering print forward [CTP]

2009-12-09T16:40:00+01:00

Australian Printer was launched in a different world sixty years ago; Andy Tribute looks back of the monumental changes that have occurred in print over that period

Goldshining opts for Thermal Direct [CTP]

2009-11-27T09:20:00+01:00

Sydney offset and digital printer Goldshining is using the new environmentally friendly Kodak Thermal Direct Non Process Plates

Computer-to-Plate goes green [CTP]

2009-08-13T14:57:00+01:00

Environmental considerations have never played such an important role in CTP. Tony King of Digital Dots takes a look at the latest products and asks which is the greenest of them all

Agfa’s ThermoFuse technology: treating water like gold [CTP]

2009-08-11T19:25:00+01:00

Agfa’s award-winning ThermoFuse technology has been around for over five years and since its introduction in products like chemistry-free :Azura and its development-free brother :Amigo, the technology has already helped over 2500 printers worldwide to make their plate production less complex, more stable and, most important, less wasteful

The next industry changing technology? [CTP]

2009-08-09T17:52:00+01:00

Occasionally there are developments within this industry, often referred to as disruptive technology, that have the potential for fundamentally changing the market. The arrival of thermally imaged non-ablative CTP plates that came to market in 1995 is an example of such a disruptive technology, and most notably the launch of the Indigo and Xeikon digital presses at Ipex 93 is another. I have just come across another such disruptive technology that could have a similar impact to that of thermal CTP in changing the industry

Venus rising in Melbourne [CTP]

2009-06-05T18:55:00+01:00

While a number of printers are struggling in the volatile financial climate, Melbourne-based commercial printer Venus Press is not only riding out the storm but is investing in new equipment, recently purchasing a Ryobi 755 five colour press to enhance its production capabilities

PacPrint Guide: Prepress [CTP]

2009-05-12T04:00:00+01:00

CTP is developing rapidly, with processless production and workflow as well as productivity gains giving printers plenty to see at PacPrint.

Integrated solution [CTP]

2009-04-19T19:58:00+01:00

Pageset’s facilities management solution has integrated a Heidelberg workflow for Print Bound

Ziegler switches to conventional CTP plates [CTP]

2009-03-07T17:22:00+01:00

After a six-month intensive production trial period one of the world’s oldest printers, Ziegler Druck in Switzerland, has changed completely to use only conventional offset plates on its CTP unit

Kodak Magnus 800 Platesetter is hot [CTP]

2009-03-07T17:14:00+01:00

Kodak Australia has unveiled the fastest and most productive addition to its Kodak Magnus 800 Platesetter line; a device that can image up to 60, eight-page plates per hour, at the highest image quality available in the industry

Prinect integration [CTP]

2009-03-07T17:06:00+01:00

An integrated workflow delivers valuable performance data, optimising your CTP, says Soeren Lange at Heidelberg.

Grafika alternatives [CTP]

2009-03-05T17:01:00+01:00

Grafika Links is winning converts to its Presstek and Kimototech CTP solutions, which offer new alternatives

Southern opts for trendsetter [CTP]

2009-03-05T13:45:00+01:00

Award winning Dunedin based printer Southern Colour Print contacted Frontline when the time came to upgrade its CTP

Prism gains focus with CTP [CTP]

2009-03-01T15:58:00+01:00

For a printing company with no background in prepress Prism is now running one of the most advanced digital workflows in the country, with more than a little help from Currie Group

Computer-to-plate imaging pros & cons [CTP]

2009-02-25T15:35:00+01:00

Given the widespread adoption of computer-to-plate production and the many success stories, it is surprising that discussions as to the pros and cons of imaging technologies are still so passionate. There is still fierce argument as to whether violet or thermal imaging is best, but fortunately the market is providing support for both. Imaging technology is still highly contentious for many people but the market has moved on, particularly since Kodak, which is committed to both, acquired Creo, thermal’s leading and most vociferous evangelist

Placing New Zealand business at the front of the line [CTP]

2009-02-25T12:18:00+01:00

The end of the last century witnessed a new force entering the New Zealand prepress supply industry. Conceived as a uniquely Kiwi answer to rapidly changing technologies in digital prepress, Frontline Technologies is now amongst the largest of the hi-tech vendors supporting businesses across all segments of the New Zealand printing industry

Managing investment into CTP [CTP]

2009-02-23T17:51:00+01:00

For most users the primary reason for investing in computer to plate (CTP) is the need for production improvement. Speed, quality or both are, for most users, the primary motivation for buying a digital platesetter. There are many intangible factors shaping the importance of these reasons, which vary with sector and production throughput volumes. This is one of the reasons why formal investment models for managing CTP investment are so rare