Want to reduce your pollution footprint while speeding up plate production? Chemistry-free or processless plates can do just that.

By Bob Atkinson

• Fujifilm Graphic Systems’ Brillia HD PRO-T is also a thermally imaged processless metal plate offering image quality and durability close to Fujifilm’s conventional plates. It can be used on most thermal platesetters. Fujifilm’s upcoming Brillia HD PRO-V plate (expected at Drupa and likely for commercial release later this year) is a photopolymer violet-imaged processless plate that will allow all of the advantages of violet platesetting (faster, lower-power imaging, lower machine cost) as well as the advantages of going processor-free. (www.fujifilmgs.com/pages/ctp/143.php)