2003 GATF's InterTech Awards Announced

GATF has sponsored the InterTech Technology Awards as a service to the graphic communications industry since 1978. The 2003 award recipients are:

Plate Cell Patterning, part of Artwork Systems' Nexus product family, is a software application that places anilox cell patterns on flexographic plates to improve ink transfer during printing. The cells are "patterned" into the job during imaging on an imagesetter or a direct-to-plate unit. The cell patterning roughens the plate surface, which, in turn, improves the quality of printed solids, reduces ink consumption, reduces halos around type, and produces more open reverses and finer positive images.