Pros and Cons of Pre-, Post- and No-bake Plates

Post-baking is also sometimes used to extend the run length of a thermal plate beyond its normal run length of several hundred thousand impressions. With post-baking, those run lengths can be extended into the millions. Agfa, for example, already offers Thermostar, a thermal plate with run lengths of several hundred thousand without baking, and into the millions with post-baking. Anocoil's new 830 T-Plate is the same: no pre-heat with typical run lengths into the hundreds of thousands and much longer print runs after post-baking.