CTP--What's New In Blue?

For clarity, the laser diodes that we are seeing (not to be confused with the older gas-fired 488nm blue technology) are actually turning out violet, in the 400nm range, which offers a great opportunity to work in a very bright yellow plateroom environment. These devices can be manual platesetters with violet laser diodes optimized for use with these specially formulated silver-halide plates. The violet laser diode platesetters that should be hitting the market for DRUPA 2000 will be perfect for smaller commercial printing sites, looking to improve prepress productivity for runs up to 250,000 impressions at high imaging throughput.