The Next Wave - Digital Directions
"Like Heidelberg and the others already mentioned, press manufacturers will decide that DRUPA 2000 is a great venue to announce new DI press offerings using Presstek on-press imaging technology and thermal ablation plates. At present, Presstek has nearly 4,000 CTP imagers operating worldwide.
"We believe that 1999 will begin a new growth era for digitally based waterless printing. Not only will digital, on-press installations with waterless plates continue to grow, but large format thermal off-press CTP devices will fuel a resurgence in waterless. Imagers from Scitex and Creo, and plates from Presstek, Toray and others later, will bring full CTP capability to printers that recognize the faster makeready, better color stability and remarkable quality of waterless printing."
