Firing On All Cylinders

Najmr does offer one cautionary note, particularly about larger-format presses: "We found that the savings diminish as run length increases because the number of makereadies decrease accordingly," he reveals.

Issues To Consider

What happens if an imaging unit goes down? The manufacturers point out that the duty cycle for an on-press imaging system, over a set time period, is significantly less than that of a CTP system used at anywhere near its capacity. This is because the on-press system is idle during the press run. Therefore, the mean time between failure should be greatly extended and maintenance requirements reduced, they assert