The Great (Digital) Plate Debate

Polyester Sheds Its Taboo
That darned taboo about polyester plates! It began around 1975, when the analog version was introduced and was used to print only "simple stuff." Unfortunately, the reputation stuck, claims Jeff Troll, director of marketing at Mitsubishi Imaging.

But future generations of analog offered much higher quality than people realized, he notes. The assumptions that polyester handled poorly, that it stretches, etc., were inaccurate and made the product "very hard to sell."