Thermal CTP's Next 100 Days

What's up at Presstek? Its most recent consumables contribution is PEARLgold, a process-free, metal-based thermal plate designed for two-, four- and eight-page presses.

Presstek's development and customer support efforts have also revealed, through market surveys and feedback, that end users want the ability to purchase both the CTP device and the thermal plates individually, based on their own set of attributes. In response, Presstek has established a series of programs to certify its plates on other manufacturers' thermal CTP imagers, and currently the company is testing commercially available plates on its PEARLsetters.