The Great (Digital) Plate Debate

Thermal plate technology revolutionized plate production in commercial printing when it was introduced in 1995. It has excellent performance on-press: the halftone dot is as durable as the best conventionally imaged plate dot, he asserts. "New thermal laser diodes introduced in 1995 enabled our scientists to develop plates using polymers similar to those used in conventionally imaged plates; polymers optimized for litho printing," Davidson says.