CTP--Still Testing the Waters

For one, Maureen Richards, prepress technical director at United Lithograph, now a Mail-Well company, has her thermal reservations.

"The current thermal technology is not 'utopia,' but I am perhaps biased by the success of our non-

thermal Galileo CTP workflow," Richards reports, noting that United's Agfa Galileo platesetter, working in tandem with a Polaroid digital halftone proofer, has boosted prepress productivity at the Somerville, MA, printer. "We do not think that the thermal solutions available today offer a significant enough advantage for our business."