DRUPA 2004 -- Gearing Up for the Big Show

Driving the press is the new Swift digital front end (DFE), which combines features of the PrintStreamer and IntelliStream systems that it replaces. The DFE reportedly provides 10 times the processing power of the existing systems, implements open standards and has a modular, scalable architecture.

Providing a bit of déjà vu, Creo Inc. also held its briefing at a customer site, Thijsen Rotatiedruk in the Netherlands, which served as a beta site for a new CTP system. The family owned business is more than 100 years old and among its claim to fame is serving as a purveyor to the Royal Household of the Netherlands. From an industry standpoint, the company currently is notable for being the first to have a Creo Magnus VLF thermal CTP system, which just happens to be feeding plates to the first long-grain, 32-page Sunday web offset press from Heidelberg in operation.