Why Buy an Imagesetter?

Here's a closer look at more current imagesetter initiatives—many targeted at the growing capstan market—which will secure that film output remains an integral part of prepress for quite some time.

Agfa is expanding its Avantra line of high-quality internal-drum imagesetters with the new high speed Avantra 44XT eight-up device, which Agfa reports is 50 percent faster than the Avantra 44S and more than 100 percent faster than the original Avantra 44. The Avantra 44XT joins the 44.5x36˝ Avantra 44S and the economy Avantra 44E.