CTP--What's New In Blue?

So, Citiplate enables both printers and UV platesetter manufacturers to choose exactly the right set of UV plate characteristics they need to achieve optimum UV CTP results—an interesting positioning, as the blue laser diode platesetter promises to hit the market for DRUPA 2000.

Bottom line: Printers who paid those upfront costs to be early CTP adopters ended up with workable CTP that was "filmless" and "different." But those printers also discovered that CTP, in its initial stages, was very costly to operate—notably because of significantly higher special plate costs. Those costs cut into profitability and competitiveness.