After many years of research, development and numerous beta tests, Spain’s Lithoplate S.A. have achieved the final tuning of the thermal CTP plates with ceramic substrate, and is now starting its manufacture and sale to industrial scale. As many offset printers have already confirmed, the patented ceramic plates provide the highest printing quality and numerous practical [...]
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Conventional UV Plates Are Great, Except…
Why is it that a UV Plate Setter is so damned expensive? UV Plate Setters basically have an array of the same lasers that are used in the BluRay player you have at home. These are made by the million, and cost buttons to produce. The control circuitry and mechanics that write the plate image [...]
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I came across this recently. We’ve all been using grained aluminium plates for their hydrophilic properties for years. That translates to a low, flat water / alcohol profile, and and a better retention of ink on the printed substrate. Ceramic plates have a layer of ceramic microspheres on top of the aluminium plate, which further improves the [...]
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