NEWSPAPER CTP — MAKING THE LATE EDITION

PNI is installing five Kodak thermal newspaper CTP systems, including four Trendsetter News 200 platesetters and a Trendsetter News 100 device. The machines will be used to image Kodak ThermalNews plates fed by four NELA PL-T plate loaders.

Full Plate of Needs

According to Dale Carpenter, PNI’s director of production, the large order of platesetters was dictated by the high number of plates required per average press run and the need for compressed production windows. Redundancy was part of the equation, but the number was predominantly driven by the plate capacity needs of the two facilities.