Digital Patesetters--Shopping the Output Odyssey

Most recently Agfa's agreement to market Krause America's LaserStar 140 and LaserStar 170 platesetters has captured some attention. This move brings a great deal of PDF power to the Krause line—as Agfa's Apogee workflow is perhaps the best friend to date of Adobe's Portable Document Format. Also, take notice of the marketing efforts of Fujifilm, as it brings technologies from Cymbolic Sciences and Screen to the market. Plus the ongoing technological initiatives of the Heidelberg/Creo alliance should prove for interesting moves in digital platemaking.