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

By Bob Atkinson

• Presstek, another early innovator in DI printing and process-free plates, offers its UV ink-compatible Anthem Pro thermal CTP processless plates, which can be imaged in most 800 - 1200 nm thermal platesetters and require only a simple water rinse after imaging. Its Freedom processless plates are designed for use on Presstek’s Vector TX52 thermal platesetter and are cleaned in a water wash built into that device. (www.presstek.com/consumables)