CTP--What's New In Blue?

What else is out there, besides Cobalt 8? As of this minute, several vendors are developing blue platesetters, most shooting for a DRUPA 2000 launch in late May. Recently, Printing Impressions went to the technology sources on this issue—Blue 2000.

No doubt, by the time the much-hyped (and rightly so) DRUPA 2000 pulls the industry's collective fascination to Dusseldorf, Germany, May 18-31, there will be more than just words supporting, or discouraging, the blue laser's impact on future CTP purchase decisions, particularly by the smaller commercial printing facilities not yet vested in CTP. For now, however, words will have to suffice—as Escher-Grad's Cobalt 8 is the only formally announced device, and even the most outspoken technology movers and shakers are playing this CTP issue close to the vest.