Thermal CTP's Next 100 Days

"Companies like Gerber are based on CTP, with thermal CTP being a considerable component, to say the least," asserts Ron Goulet, vice president of engineering at Gerber Systems. "In certain prepress environments, the thermal plate presents the next frontier in CTP. It all boils down to the strong marketing job done a few years back by Creo and Kodak. They did a very effective job at marketing thermal CTP, and the industry is still, in many ways, reacting."