Screen's First newspaper CTP System At Ipex 2006

Edited by the Printingtalk editorial team Feb 6, 2006

Ipex 06 will mark Screen Europe's entry in to the newspaper market with the launch of the Platerite News 2000 CTP system.

Ipex 06 will mark Screen Europe's entry in to the newspaper market with the launch of the Platerite News 2000 CTP system.

Specifically designed for newspaper pre-press, the Platerite News 2000 thermal platesetter incorporates Screen's CTP technology for commercial printing applications.

According to Screen, as the volume of colour pages in newspapers continues to increase, so too has the demand for even higher levels of quality.

That has led to a growth in the use of thermal plates, a trend acknowledged by IFRA which recently reported that the market share for thermal had grown to 20 per cent.

With the Platerite News 2000, Screen believes itprovides a reliable, compact, high quality and highly productive thermal system specifically aimed at newspapers with single cylinder rotary presses.

The company claimed that the Platerite News 2000's productivity is ideal for the newspaper industry, where the ability to move quickly through the production processes is critical.

The platesetter features a 64-channel laser diode imaging head and images plates from 290mm x 460mm (11.4" x 18.1") up to a maximum plate size of 980mm x 685mm (38.6" x 26.8").

It can output 84 broadsheet plates or 42 double-wide plates per hour, it is said.

Automated plate loading and unloading for unattended operation is standard on the Platerite News 2000 and the ability to load two broadsheet plates simultaneously further increases efficiency, said Screen.

Trueflow Rite News, the automated workflow system specifically for newspaper production, provides the functions for CTP output of plates in a newspaper pre0press operation.

Four standard image settings - 1,000 dots per inch (dpi), 1,016dpi, 1,200dpi and 1,270dpi - provide a choice of resolutions, whilst support for Screen' s Spekta AM/FM screening enables production with ordinary screen rulings, said the company.