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"We like the quality of thermal," Monfette says. "We've had good luck with thermal plates, both in prepress and the pressroom. They are very stable; it's almost like you can set them and forget them."

The shop continues to use the Fuji plates it already was running, but it has added the Agfa plates it got as part of the package, the prepress director says. "We like the durability of the Fuji product. We bake all our plates because the dots are very soft if you don't bake them," he reports.