Southern Lithoplate, Inc. announced that seven publishers and newspaper printing companies converted from conventional negative imaging to thermal computer-to-plate (CtP) production with Southern Lithoplate digital newspaper solutions.
Xingraphics will participate at Gulf Print & Pack showcasing the following exciting new products: FIT Xtra Melior, thermal CtP plate and FIT eCO Primo, Processless Plate.
Newspaper publishers and print production houses continued to retire conventional prepress systems in 2010 in favor of Southern Lithoplate violet computer-to-plate (CtP) technology in order to meet increasing quality and efficiency demands.
Boone Newspapers, Inc. has implemented a new digital prepress workflow built around the Esprit violet platesetter from alfaQuest Technologies, Inc. and Southern Lithoplate violet printing plates. The newspaper company installed the computer-to-plate (CtP) system at the Alexander City Outlook in Alexander City, Ala.
Universal Graphics, a general commercial printer in El Paso, Texas, has made a seamless transition from a film-based to a direct-to-plate workflow anchored by a Heidelberg Prosetter violet platesetter with MetaDimension RIP.
Boone Newspapers, Inc. has implemented a new digital prepress workflow built around the Esprit violet platesetter from alfaQuest Technologies, Inc. and Southern Lithoplate violet printing plates. The newspaper company installed the computer-to-plate (CtP) system at the Alexander City Outlook in Alexander City, Ala.
“My six year lithographic plate making apprenticeship (and a few other craft skills) is now superseded by a single machine,” says Gerry Clipp, managing director of Green-On Limited. The company has taken delivery of a Suprasetter A75 featuring the new Dual Top Loader that Heidelberg launched at Ipex.
