The Direct Approach

"Profire is a modular, integrated system," he says. "We've put everything together in the imager that's required to do on-press imaging in a compact system that can essentially be fitted to anybody's press"—particularly A2, A3 and A4 sizes, he adds.

On some larger presses, like the 40˝ Komori Project D and the Heidelberg Quickmaster DI 46-4, CreoScitex SQUAREspot is the imager of choice. Its advantage, says Brad Palmer, director of short-run printing with CreoScitex, is its very high optical resolution, which yields sharper, crisper images than Profire. It's also faster, he says, and has higher process stability.