CTP - Computer to Plate

Dats Print upgrades its CtP with processless solution

Thursday 19. July 2012 - Irthlingborough printers Dats Print is this week commissioning a Suprasetter A52 with automatic plate loading. At the same time it is updating its prepress software to the latest versions of MetaDimension and Signastation.

“Normally we would invest in new CtP every three years but market conditions made us cautious so we held on for five. The Prosetter worked well but had served its time and now we have the latest technology in the Suprasetter,” says Mark Brown, managing director.
“We have taken this opportunity to go processless which reduces our chemistry and fits our environmental stance. Heidelberg offered the right solution and the reliability of the first system counted in their favour.”
The Suprasetter A52 will be used to feed two Printmasters, a PM 52-5 and a PM 52-2, and a Speedmaster SM 52-4.
Dats Print handles a high volume of work for print management companies and design and advertising agencies as well as having a broad portfolio of direct customers. It is a truly commercial printer producing an exceptionally wide spread of work.
The three directors Mark Brown, Ian Brown and Kerry Hedges employ about 30 staff at the 12,000 sq ft plant in Northamptonshire.