If you are still using double sided metal plates you may be finding that you are waiting longer than normal to receive them from your current supplier. Or you may not be able to get them at all. The reason is that all but one of the plate manufacturers have discontinued double sided conventional plates and it looks like the one remaining is soon to follow. It is our estimate that within the next couple of months the only double sided conventional plates you will find are the ones that your current supplier already has in their inventory. Our suggestion would be if you use double sided plates order as many as you can find because it won’t be long until they’re no longer available.
Double Sided Conventional Plates
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New Tech Allows You to Leverage Inkjet and Wide-format Printers for Computer to Plate
Inkjet printing has progressed by leaps and bounds in the past decade. Improved print heads make it possible to produce excellent screening by decreasing the size of the dot.
Along with significant advances in the print engines, inkjet printers are also much faster than they were just a few years ago. Many of today’s inkjet printers can be bundled with a state of the art software RIP, allowing commercial printers, quick printers and screen printers to use these systems as computer to film and computer to plate systems. With the right combination of hardware, software, ink and film, a screen printer can achieve densities of close to 4 on clear film for their film positives. [Read more…]
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Inkjet Computer to Metal Plate for Newspapers
Should you consider using an inkjet based computer to plate system to make plates for your newspaper? That depends, if you are a smaller newspaper that can live with 9-10 plates per hour and run lengths of 50,000 impressions on press it may be the perfect solution. If you are a larger paper that needs much more than 10 plates per hour it just wouldn’t be fast enough to keep up with production. But for the smaller newspaper, inkjet CTP is a very affordable, metal computer-to-plate system. [Read more…]
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