Digital Plate Primer: Enviro Plate Considerations

Chemistry-free. These solutions require post-imaging processing or finishing before mounting on-press. The most common of these require a finishing solution or gum to fix the plate image prior to being used on-press. Here, we look at the Agfa Azura thermal plate and the violet Fujifilm Brillia Ecomaxx-V (also known as HD PRO-V in some regions), both of which use a finishing solution rather than a traditional chemical developer. Both use less chemistry for this process than either the reduced chemistry or conventional options, but more than processless plates.