Printer Uses Processless Plates Ensures Quality

A Fujifilm Graphic Systems product story

Edited by the Printingtalk editorial team Apr 5, 2007

Peach Media, a full service design, marketing, print and logistics agency in Chesterfield (UK) has opted to use the Fuji Brillia HD Pro-T processless plate.

Peach Media, a full service design, marketing, print and logistics agency in Chesterfield (UK) has opted to use the Fuji Brillia HD Pro-T processless plate.

The plate is being run on the company's Screen Platerite 4300.

Chris Marsden, creative director of Peach Media, said: "We've been investing heavily in new staff, equipment and services.

It is our policy of only working with the best, so that we can provide our customers with the highest quality end product.

Fuji's Pro-T plate certainly falls within that category.

We've found that running Pro-T does not dirty the press or fount solution and has no effect on drying time or run length." He added: "These benefits, combined with the environmental advantages of running processless plates, have made the switch to Fuji plates effortless." To achieve that, the company invested GBP400,000 developing its Chesterfield headquarters.

The 13,000 square foot premises now houses design and production facilities, serving customers, such as Tesco, Sheffield Insulations, Marstons Brewery, Revolution (Vodka Bars) and Sheffield Wednesday Football Club.

Fuji said its Brillia HD Pro-T is a true processless plate in that it needs no chemistry or gumming and can be imaged using the same power as Fuji's existing thermal processed plate at 120mJ per square centimetre, resulting in the same production speeds.

Compatible with most thermal (830nm) plate setters and approved for 1 per cent - 99 per cent at 200 lines per inch (lpi) conventional, 300lpi hybrid and FM screening, Brillia HD Pro-T is a non-ablative plate that carries a latent image with contrast allowing visual inspection after imaging, added the company.

Established in 1997, Peach Media today employs 12 staff.

The company was originally founded as a design studio but as its customer base grew it decided to bring all outsourced functions, such as print and product fulfilment under the one roof.