DIGITAL PLATES — LESS IS MORE

Kodak offers a full line of plates in addition to the Thermal Direct and Sword Excel, including the Thermal Gold, Electra Excel and Thermal News, as well as Violet Print and Violet News for violet imaging environments.

The migration toward short-run color has impacted the manufacturing of plates, notes Don Rogers, consumables product manager for Heidelberg USA. “But the resurgence in FM and hybrid screening are requiring plates to support very high resolutions for 20 micron FM screening and up to 400 lpi for hybrid screening,” he says. “Both technologies allow our customers to differentiate themselves from their competition.”