To process or not to process?

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Virtually ever since computer-to-plate (CtP) technology was introduced, the holy grail has been to develop a processless digital plate. This is not surprising really since who doesn’t want to eliminate plate processing? To understand what has to be done to achieve this, it is necessary to go back to basic principles. What better place to do this than at Kodak’s research and development facilities at its plate manufacturing plant in Windsor, Colorado, USA? For one thing, Kodak is somewhat unique in the newspaper market in that it not only designs and manufactures platesetters, plates and digital workflows but it also uses both thermal and violet laser technology. In addition, the core competency of the R&D labs at Windsor is what it calls ‘non-process’ digital plate technology. ...cont´d

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