GLOBALWARE SOLUTIONS - Shining Light on CTP

GlobalWare currently has three basysPrint platesetters installed in its East Coast facility. This includes a 67˝ UV Setter 1116 and two 44˝ models—UV Setter 710HS and 710/2. The larger model was required to support the plant's Timsons T32 web offset book press.

The three machines produce almost all the plates required for the range of sheetfed and web presses in the plant, which primarily prints manuals, retail packaging and CD jewel case inserts in up to six colors. Jobs sometimes get redirected to a different press, Cote says, if the requirements change, there is a problem with a press or just for load balancing purposes. The flatbed design, pin-based plate register and software interface of the basysPrint units make it easy to switch from one plate size to another, he asserts.