DIGITAL PLATES & PLATESETTERS -- Two Steps Forward

Works in Progress

Norwalk, CT-based Kodak Polychrome Graphics (KPG) brought a wall display of processless technologies to IPEX and is planning a similar presentation for Graph Expo, reports Bruce Davidson, business manager for U.S. and Canada, plates and film. "We continue to work on that technology, but are being quite conservative in bringing it to market," Davidson reveals. "We want to get to a plate that is not ablative, so it doesn't require any special kind of debris collection on the platesetter. Since it will be a product for on-press and off-line imaging applications, we obviously also want a technology that doesn't cause any issues when the plate is developed on-press."