CTP--What's New In Blue?

Figured it out yet?

Three letters: C-T-P.

Blue laser (or violet, for the true colorist at heart, as well as the consummate physicist) technology is prime for the platesetting market. It affords a far-cheaper consumable—the laser—to operate in a high-speed platesetting capacity. Escher-Grad became the first vendor to announce a platesetter based on blue-diode laser technology.