The Great (Digital) Plate Debate

Attitudes are clearly changing about polyester. The material is now capable of printing 175 line screens and four-color process work. "And," he says, "printers can make money doing it!"

But, in order to make money, the printer first has to learn how to properly handle this unusual, unfamiliar (oh taboo!) polyester plate. Mitsubishi has technical and pressroom support teams that can make the plate run on-press, and can teach press operators how to do it, too. And in the end, according to Troll, it is the press operator's ability that will determine whether the polyester plate will succeed or not.