The Great (Digital) Plate Debate

"But," he continues, "silverless UV CTP has a 'single workflow' model with quite superior economics. It adds a UV CTP platesetter to the film-based UV platemaking stream most printers now use. Our high-performance UV plates can be used in both streams, for all digital or film-based platemaking, under bright-light handling and with one environmentally friendly, aqueous-based processing line. The cost-savings of using a single, high-performance UV plate type for all jobs—digital or film-based—are quite dramatic."