PRINTING PLATE UPDATE -- New Precious Metal

With the ABDick acquisition now finalized, the combined company is also offering the Freedom plate as an ABDick-branded product, O'Rourke adds. He describes the plate as a shorter run, sub-ablative variant of the Anthem technology. It is dedicated to the Vector TX platesetter.

Agfa currently is highlighting its Azura chemistry-free digital plate technology, says David Furman, Agfa's senior marketing manager, CTP Systems, North America. It uses patented ThermoFuse technology to physically bond images to the plate without any chemical processing, he explains. A clean-out and gumming step follows the non-ablative imaging process.