Computer-to-Plate — Digital Plate Developments

Printing Specialist Corp., in Glen Burnie, MD, had a case of the blues over the chemistry it had to use with its previous generation of thermal CTP technology. “The processor’s rollers had to be wiped down every day, and you had to put on rubber gloves to do it because the chemistry would burn your hands and turn them blue,” reports Gary Habicht, president and CEO. “The chemistry was very caustic.”