From Clean Slate to Direct-to-plate

During one recent peak production period, the Galileo produced 22 plates in 80 minutes—including plotting and processing. The Galileo's high productivity benefits from the tight coupling between the plate type and imaging head. McCord is using Agfa Lithostar Plus plates, which use a silver-halide, diffusion-transfer coating, and the 532nm frequency-doubled YAG laser, which is upgradable.