Set off CTP's hijab (below)

The reaction residue on the latest product, Gold plate, can be completely rinsed off with printing ink and fountain solution on the press, while the residue on the SDT plate is sucked off via a pump on Gerber's CTP system. In thermal technology innovation, Gerber is pleased with its progress. In the past, people thought that thermal CTP could only use external drum exposure. For example, Creo's products belong to outer drum thermal CTP. However, Gerber's successful internal drum thermal CTP gives a new look. The path of the laser beam of the inner drum thermal CTP reaches the printing plate is shorter, and the use of multiple laser exposure imaging can make up for the problem of the exposure speed, so the exposure speed is not inferior to the outer drum CTP. Gerber's practice proved that drum-type CTP is feasible for imaging thermal plates. In the thermal plate processing, some businesses are trying to simplify the processing of the plate.
Kodak's first-generation IR (infrared laser) plates need to be "preheated" before exposure to ensure that the thermal response of the plates is carried out thoroughly. Today, the thermal plates of Kodak, Polaroid, and Horsell do not require "preheating" of plates. Horsell said that the new Elektra plate can be treated in the same way as the positive PS plate in the future. At the same time, Polaroid's Quantum NPH (NO PreHeat) plate has been put into commercial applications. The company’s chief executive officer Bob looks forward to the future and said: “From the perspective of long-term development, ink-jet printing plates have great potential for development, because it is a truly green environmental protection media, and its working principle is The coating with image information is sprayed onto the blank printing plate by ink jet." In fact, all thermal CTP plate materials are not low in price and are generally more expensive than photosensitive CTP plates. Why are printers so fond of thermal CTPs? It is not surprising that thermal CTPs are expensive, because the removal of film in the workflow will undoubtedly save you money. From another perspective, the thermal CTP is indeed profitable. Now that some printers have invested in purchasing CTPs, it is no longer necessary to use film as an intermediate medium in the workflow.
People's attitude toward CTP is changing Today, subtle changes have taken place in the arguments held by those who favor CTP technology. Although their argument is that CTP saves the materials needed for prepress processing, they now emphasize the impact of CTP technology on the press shop. Laser imaging is a clean imaging method and the imaging accuracy of plates is high. The thermal CTP plate completely lacks the notion of "underexposure" and "overexposure", and exposure quality problems rarely occur with other CTP plates. In addition, the adaptability of the printing plate on the printing press is very stable. The printing press with automatic feeding plate unit is easier to operate, so people call the CTP the best partner for the automatic printing press (with conveying plate unit). Printers who use the CTP system say that CTP has reduced the time required for the preparation and control of printing presses. In the context of today's printing business tends to be shorter and shorter and the delivery time is faster, the reduction in the time required for the printing press to work is reduced. Printers are of great significance. We might as well calculate: If a batch of prints needs 4 hours to finish printing, the printing press's work preparation time reduced from 45 minutes to 20 minutes does not seem to reflect the advantages; if a batch of prints can be printed in one hour, the print Immediately after the second batch of activities, the positive effect of the speeding up of work preparation cannot be underestimated. The smaller the number of prints, the more the advantages of CTP.
Printers using CTP will also say that CTP plates are more uniform in quality, more accurate in image formation, faster in press preparation, and more consistent in their work. In short, CTP technology reduces the press preparation time. Using CTP technology, printers can make macro-control on the printing production process, printers can predict, plan, control production tasks, so that printing companies to achieve a management model of industrial production. Of course, the printing company can do its job smoothly and plan to produce. After understanding the company's production capacity, it can pick up more printing business. The future of CTP is no longer a dream!