CTP FIELD REPORTS -- A Digital Duet

The printer has changed some of the specific products it uses, but it has always employed thermal CTP technology, Wall points out. "When we went to DRUPA 95 to buy a system, the prevailing choices were all visible light, but they were targeted to the eight-page printer and were out of our price range," he says. "We weren't shopping for thermal persé, but Presstek had a four-page unit (Pearlsetter 74) in our price range. That happened to be a thermal machine."