Imagesetters - Alive And Kicking

Nevertheless, Dean Meyer, product manager of output systems for Heidelberg USA, sees it differently.

"Overall, computer-to-film is going down, but not as quickly or dramatically as we thought. The reason for that is there is still a fairly high entry-level price into CTP, when you're talking metal. I have to say when you look at some of these imagesetters they're pretty quick, and when you put a polyester plate into some of these film recorders, then you have a CTP device that's faster than any of the metal ones."