PLATESETTING SYSTEMS -- Generation Gap in CTP

RIPit offers turnkey solutions for small- and mid-size printers. Its new SpeedSetter VM4 is a four-up violet platesetter that features a small footprint. It is bundled with the OpenRIP Symphony core RIP, with optional solutions for imposition, trapping, proofing and screening.

As a final option, show attendees will also have the opportunity to check out a couple of ink-jet based CTP systems. JetPlate Systems is debuting the JetPlate 4800 with enhanced ink-jet imaging technology and Glunz & Jensen will showing its iCtP (ink-jet CTP) technology, including the PlateWriter 4200 platesetter and patented Liquid Dot solution.