Presstek Solution Puts East Kilbride Firm On Right Path to Profitability
Caxton has favored Muller Martini insertion systems for the last six years at its production facility in Johannesburg. In addition to three SLS2000 (installed in 2004) and two SLS3000 (in operation since 2006) systems, South Africa’s leader in the insert business with monthly inserts in excess of 50 million, will increase its capacity by investing in two ProLiners with CoLiner.
Several distributors around the world have identified a requirement within their customer base for a Violet CtP machine with a higher throughput than the standard Cobra-8 output speed. HighWater Products approach to this request is a dual-resolution Cobra-8 that offers 26 B1 plates per hour at 175 lpi and 16 B1 plate per hour at 250 lpi.
Flexographic and letterpress printers increasingly are demanding high-quality output and fast turnarounds from the technology they invest in. Screen (USA) has added a new model to its portfolio of high-resolution flexo plate recorders that incorporates customer input and feedback. The PlateRite FX1200 will debut at Graph Expo 2010 to meet the quality and productivity requirements of customers in the mid-web flexo market.
New :Advantage N XXT, Agfa’s fastest CTP offering more than 300 plates per hour at an unrivaled image quality
The compact :Advantage N-SL platesetter and :N92-VCF (violet chemistry-free) plates from Agfa Graphics bring advanced technology, automation, reliability and environmental benefits to small and mid-size newspapers
Flexography, as the de facto standard for package printing in the United States, has benefited immensely from improvements in platemaking and screening technology. The Screen PlateRite FX1524 represents a big step forward in enabling packaging printers to give their customers higher flexo printing performance, quality and efficiency. Designed for wide-web flexo platemaking, the PlateRite FX1524 achieves outstanding results for flexible packages, folding cartons and corrugated cardboard packages.
