Fontana/Affiliate--A Waterless Course

"Waterless printing allows us to provide our clients with greater detail and more vibrant colors," Connors says. "There really is a difference."

Fontana/Affiliated installed a six-color, 40˝ Heidelberg Speedmaster CD press with a coater and another 40˝ two-color Heidelberg, and began operating both without fountain solution. They even went so far as to hang a sign in the plateroom forbidding conventional platemaking on jobs that would run on the waterless presses.