CTP--Still Testing the Waters

Dave Bartram, CTP marketing manager for Kodak Polychrome Graphics, understands the sense of caution and optimism expressed by many commercial printers deliberating the thermal plate purchase.

"Even though the great success of Kodak's thermal plates, working in tandem with Creo and other thermal CTP imagers, can hardly be overstated, I have a hard time putting the terms 'CTP' and 'utopia' together in the same sentence," Bartram reports.