Digital Patesetters--Shopping the Output Odyssey

Screen's Phil Kane, vice president of sales, reports the manufacturer of the fully automated PI-R1080 PlateRite digital device will launch a semiautomatic, external drum, thermal platesetter this fall, designed specifically for the eight-up commercial market.

The front end of this new thermal device will sport TaigaSPACE functionality, but still allow for open interfacing with RIPs from Adobe, Harlequin, Rampage, Xitron and others.