Thermal CTP--Making Life. . .and Plates. . .Easier

The difference between digital and conventional workflows, it seems, represents a chasm as expansive (not to mention palatable) as pâté and liverwurst.

Bruce Wexler is a believer. The executive vice president of West Orange, NJ-based Earth Color Group recently encountered a tricky job: an eight-page brochure (a print run of 700,000 to 800,000) with more than its share of difficult tints and gradations. Even so, Wexler found that his company's recently installed Agfa Galileo thermal CTP device to be quite capable of handling the task.