Computer-to-Plate — Digital Plate Developments

Eliminating variability was a key motivating factor for Phoenix Marketing Services’ switch to chemistry-free plates. It is now using a similar, but not identical, CTP solution from Agfa Graphics—Azura thermal plates.

The marketing services firm, based in Claremont, CA, has been running CTP for about a decade, says Jamie Richards, prepress manager. It started out using a silver-based plate, then moved to Agfa’s P970 thermal plate, which it baked.