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News Release from: Fujifilm Graphic Systems | Subject: Brillia HD LH-PJE UV plates,FLH-Z plate processors
Edited by the Printingtalk Editorial
Team on 27 June 2008
Non-Bake Plates And Processors Improve
Savings
Pureprint Group has switched to using Fujifilm plates and processors, resulting in time and cost savings, as well as chemistry, whilst achieving quality improvements.
Pureprint, of Uckfield (UK), which provides various printing services to the corporate, fine art and creative markets, decided to install Fujifilm's Brillia HD LH-PJE non-bake UV plates and FLH-Z series plate processors, as the company wanted a more environmentally friendly system and a plate deal with a consistent, reliable supplier, said Fujifilm Aaron Archer, group technical manager at Pureprint, commented: "The LH-PJE plates don't need baking, have a good visible image after processing and provide a fine and consistent image
This article was originally published on Printingtalk on 4 Jul 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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The combination of the plates with the FLH-Z processors met all of our pre-press needs, providing a more precise, environmentally friendly process." He continued: "Not only have we saved massive amounts of chemistry, we've also saved huge amounts of time.
Previously each processor took four hours to change each week, totalling 32 hours per month.
Now, as we're only changing the processors once a month, this leads to only eight hours per month in down time." Fujifilm added that Pureprint has also made savings in the amount of chemistry used, as well as in the time spent maintaining the processors.
Pureprint's previous processors could only process 1,500 plates each before the chemistry needed to be changed, which happened, on average, once a week.
Now Pureprint is running over 4,000 plates per processor before cleaning is required, enabling the company to processor chemistry just once a month.
By moving to Fujifilm's plates and processors, Pureprint said it has reduced its chemistry from 560 litres to only 140 litres a month, a 75 per cent reduction and the equivalent to saving over 60 domestic baths full of chemicles each year.
Designed for use with Fujifilm's Brillia HD thermal CTP plates and manufactured by Glunz and Jensen, the FLH-Z units are fitted with a ZAC 'intelligent' microprocessor control system from Fujifilm, providing what is claimed to be robust, stable, plate processing.
The ZAC control system is said to determine the optimum replenishment rate, which results in the best possible development conditions, irrespective of changes in plate volume, or image area.
Because of that, Fujifilm claimed that plates are always processed under optimum conditions providing a more exacting image.
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