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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

Dainippon Screen has developed a new series of thermal plate CtP recorders that the company says increased throughput, consume less electricity and are gentler on the environment. Sales of the PlateRite 8000N series have commenced worldwide.

Hobart-based printer Whatsinaname Tasmania placed the world’s first order for a Kimosetter 525 CTP unit and has also become the first Australian company to install the unit.

The Murray Pioneer located in the South Australia Riverland town of Renmark has became the first newspaper in South Australia to upgrade their existing Agfa CTP system to use the new :N92-VCF chemistry-free plate technology.

Melbourne-based printing company BR Printing has installed the first PlateWriter 2400 iCtp system in Australia from Australian Graphic Servicing (AGS). The iCtP by Glunz & Jensen uses the same aluminium plate as standard conventional and Ctp but without the sensitised coating, according to AGS.

Melbourne-based printing company BR Printing has installed the first PlateWriter 2400 iCtp system in Australia from Australian Graphic Servicing (AGS). The iCtP by Glunz & Jensen uses the same aluminium plate as standard conventional and Ctp, but without the sensitised coating, according to AGS.

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

With help from Allied Machinery Services, Marfleet Printing, a Samoan firm, has installed the first iCTP Plate Writer 2000 in the islands.

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

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

Industry service provider Australian Graphic Servicing (AGS) is now distributing the new iCtp PlateWriter 2400 from Glunz & Jensen in the Australian market. AGS says the PlateWriter uses standard aluminium plates, has run length capabilities of up to 50,000 and a resolution capability of 2880dpi.

Printing Supplies & Machinery has announced the introduction of a new Presstek polyester CTP platesetter: the Presstek DPM Pro 400, aimed at commercial and in plant printers who utilise small format presses.

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 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

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

The Dutch court in The Hague, Netherlands, has brought down its decision in the patent infringement case initiated by Agfa against Chinese plate manufacturer Chengdu Xingraphics, and according to Agfa, the judgement confirms the validity of its key patent for positive thermal plates, European patent EP823327. 

The Dutch court in The Hague, Netherlands, has brought down its decision in the patent infringement case initiated by Agfa against Chinese plate manufacturer Chengdu Xingraphics, and according to Agfa, the judgement confirms the validity of its key patent for positive thermal plates, European patent EP823327.

The Dutch court in The Hague, Netherlands, has brought down its decision in the patent infringement case initiated by Agfa against Chinese plate manufacturer Chengdu Xingraphics, and according to Agfa, the judgement confirms the validity of its key patent for positive thermal plates, European patent EP823327.

Strength in its portfolio and confidence in the future was how Juergen Krufczyk, national business manager, Graphic Systems Division, Fujifilm Australia, described his company at PacPrint.