DIGITAL PLATES & PLATESETTERS -- Two Steps Forward

Silver Holds its Value

The latter is the case with the Saphira silver halide, violet-sensitive plate the company introduced recently, but it also offers—on an exclusive basis—a non-ablative thermal material for on-press imaging by the Speedmaster 74DI press, Boggess points out.

"We are committed to aggressively expanding our consumables portfolio to include products such as processless, non-ablative thermal; photopolymer violet; and other plate technologies. Full commercialization of the processless plate should come in the fourth quarter of this calendar year, with the photopolymer violet product to follow in the first quarter of 2003," he projects.