DIGITAL PLATES & PLATESETTERS -- Two Steps Forward

As a whole, the printing industry hasn't been content to just dance with the ones (technologies) that brought it to the party. Thermal imaging barely had its coming out before people were looking ahead to processless plates—first ablative and now onto "debris-free" technologies. With violet imaging, the potential to change plate partners from silver halide to photopolymer has been promoted from the start to blunt some criticism of the technology.