Ifra Sees Thermal Newspaper CTP System

This year Screen makes its debut at Ifra Expo in Amsterdam (The Netherlands) from October 9-12 October.

This year Screen makes its debut at Ifra Expo in Amsterdam (The Netherlands) from October 9-12 October.

Screen's stand in hall 4 - stand 4440 - will be the stage for the company to show its new Platerite News 2000 thermal CTP device for newspaper pre-press operations, together with Trueflow Rite News, the automated workflow system designed for newspaper production.

The Platerite News 2000's productivity is said to be suitable for the newspaper industry, where the ability to move quickly through 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 is claimed to be able to output 84 broadsheet plates or 41 double-wide plates per hour.

The company said that as the volume of colour pages in newspapers continues to increase, so too has the demand for 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 provides a reliable, compact, high quality and highly productive thermal system specifically aimed at newspapers with single cylinder rotary presses.

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.

In November, Screen Europe said that it add another level of flexibility with the launch of a new multi-cassette autoloader with full automation that will increase the productivity of the Platerite News 2000 even further.

The multi-cassette device will feature a maximum of three cassettes providing a capacity of up to 600 plates to be held on-line available to the platesetter without operator intervention.

Trueflow Rite News, the automated workflow system specifically for newspaper production, is claimed to provide the necessary functionality for CTP output of plates in newspaper pre-press operations.

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

Screen Europe marked its entry in to the newspaper market earlier this year at Ipex 2006 with the launch of the Platerite News 2000 CTP system.

The thermal platesetter incorporates Screen's CTP technology.

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