Move Ahead With CTP

The Cobalt 8 will expose visible-light plates from Agfa or Fuji. It can be configured to run at any two resolutions from 800 dpi to 3,000 dpi.

As of this minute, several vendors are developing blue platesetters, most shooting for a DRUPA 2000 launch in late May. No doubt by then there will be more than just words supporting, or discouraging, the blue laser's impact on future CTP purchase decisions, particularly by smaller in-plants not yet vested in CTP. For now, however, words will have to suffice—as Escher-Grad's Cobalt 8 is the only formally announced device, and even the most outspoken technology movers and shakers are playing this CTP issue close to the vest.