DIGITAL COLOR PRESSES -- Digital Devices' Dance Card

Agfa continues to offer its Thermolite and Thermolite Plus plate materials for on-press imaging applications. In the past year, it has adapted the latter thermofusable technology for off-press imaging with the introduction of the Azura processless plate.

Konica Minolta has also introduced a short-run (up to 20,000 impressions), processless thermal plate—TF-200—that it says can be used in on-press imaging applications. The material has been adopted by Screen (USA) for use with its TruePress 344 digital offset press, which has a thermal MALD (multi-array laser diode) imaging system.