CTP Minus The Processing

"We're optimistic about those [develop-on-press plates]," he adds.

Weitoff prefers to talk in terms of the "goal" for product development—that is, to have a thermally imaged product that can be put through a standard thermal platesetter capable of using the "wet processing" thermal plates the company sells today: "The goal is to have a product that is compatible with the broad base of installed platesetters and to use a standard fountain solution on press," he explains