Survey Shows Top Reasons for Plate Remakes

The leading remake causes for film-based plates were plate wear (17.7 percent), voids (8.1), register (6.6), plates not stored (6.2) and changed press (5.5). For digital plates, the top causes were plates damaged on-press (9.1 percent), customer change (8.8), processor malfunction (6.9), production planning (6.9) and RIP problems (5.4).