The New Trend Of Development In Prepress Industry
Conventional plate production featured by imagesetter, film and PS plate will not be able to keep in prepress industry in the twenty first century at present, the sales turnover of computer to plate machines and its related products such as copydot film scanners are experiencing tremendous growth.
CIT technology greatly improves the efficiency of plate production. The entire production circle of printing is drastically shortened and printing quality is much improved. Both prepress and printing industries place much focus on the development of CTP. According to American GATF rating statistics, CTP has been rated as NO.1 advanced printing technology for 4 consecutive years since 1997. Internationally renowened prepress supplier and plate manufacturer such as PURUP-ESKOFOT, AGFA, DAI NIPPON SCREEN, SCITEX, HEIDERLBERG, KODAK, FUJI, ECRM have all developed full line of CTP products.
Because of the CTP technology is widely accepted, he market of the traditional plate making equipment and the consumable materials are greatly shrinking. The through put of the following equipment is slowing down or half stopped its production. Such as the imagesetters, film processors, plate processors, plate exposure systems. According to some experts, in 2005, the laser imagesetter will gradually stop production.
For the development of the printing industry, every revolution of the prepress technology always brings the printing industry one big development. At the same time, the advance of the printing industry can not be independent of the improvement of the prepress technolog. Now we can sat that in the next decade the development of this printing industry will depend on the development and populariztion of the computer to plate technology.
The CTP and digital printing have been the key problem in the developing system. It will implement the total digital workflow and improve the efficiency greatly.
The digital technology has almost replaced the traditional technology. The design and pictures can be transferred by network or through electronic medium. The corporation of the pan-regin, pan-country, pan continent will be a common thing. We can communicate with each other through the Internet, we can offer the need, exchange information, remote proofing, and production tracking etc. The product can be designed in somewhere of the world. And printed in another place of the world.
Along with the technology progress and competition, the enterprises required more on the automation of the prepress industry. And the CTP is one of the most important factors that can improve the automation of the printing industry. From the view of this, we can see the significance.
Edit By Vikas
April 10, 2012
