Digital Patesetters--Shopping the Output Odyssey

"It makes the jump from one technology to the other far less treacherous," asserts Allen Dunn, senior product development manager for electronic imaging at Fujifilm. "CSI and Fujifilm have done a great deal of work optimizing the quality of our Fuji plate with the PlateJet imagers."

At the fall shows, Agfa will profile its eight-up Galileo and Antares 1600, the latter being a member of Agfa's newly launched Antares family. In its U.S. launch, the manual version of the 1064nm thermal Galileo will take a prominent position in the Agfa booth, alongside the fully automated version of the green-laser Galileo. The eight-up Antares 1600 is designed for commercial printers that need an eight-up format to match current press parameters. It can image 12 full-size plates per hour at 2,000 dpi with a semiautomatic loading system.