IMAGESETTING VS. PLATESETTING -- Setting the Pace

Nevertheless, the company still needs the flexibility to quickly switch between outputting polyester plates and film for two reasons, the company president says. A large chunk of its sales volume comes from serving as a distributor, so it has to send plate-ready film out to other printers for production. Internally, jobs that require critical registration or have run lengths in excess of 20,000 impressions are produced using film and traditional metal plates, Losure reports, due to the current limits of polyester plates.