The Great (Digital) Plate Debate

The combination of these plates with the new, very sharp exposure profile of thermal imaging, he notes, brought new benefits in accuracy and precision, delivering higher resolution, as well as increased predictability.

"Our commitment to thermal imaging began when we introduced the Approval, a fully digital, halftone proofing system," Davidson notes. The Kodak Approval was launched in 1990 as the best way to get halftone dots digitally onto a proof. This was followed in 1995 by the Intertech Award-winning Thermal Printing Plate/830 and the Electra 830 Printing Plate.