CTP--What's New In Blue?

Presstek chose thermal because thermal is an enabling technology: Thermal enables ablation, ablation enables process-free imaging, and process-free imaging is the ideal that we've been seeking to achieve.

So why perpetuate what is essentially a throwback to 20-year-old technology—the blue laser? The new millennium is not the time to go back to safelights and darkrooms. Presstek stands firm in its conviction that blue laser is not only a short-sighted solution, but an expensive one at that, particularly the inescapable fact that blue laser, in its current form, does not have the power potential to expose anything beyond silver halide.