DRUPA 04 REPORT PREPRESS & PREMEDIA -- Preparing Data, Not Dot

Strobbe unveiled a new eight-up, flatbed violet platesetter, the PSA-33MV, which features a plate loading system that can be configured with up to 10 cassettes, each capable of holding two plates sizes.

Offering a different approach is Glunz & Jensen with its ink-jet computer-to-plate (iCTP) system, the PlateWriter 4200. A "Liquid Dot" solution is deposited on a non-photosensitive aluminum plate. The system will ship in the fall.