At the "CTP Drupa" nine years ago, prepress equipment manufacturers unveiled a host of exotic devices that, for the most port, had three things in common: They imaged plates with computer data using laser-generated light, they were designed to image eight-up or larger plates, and they were incredibly expensive. However, these facts didn't quiet the printing industry's tumultuous roar of approval for CTP technology, even though many in-plant and small commercial print shop managers wondered what the noise was all about. When CTP was discussed in 1995, in-plant managers didn't talk about eight-up plate exposure times; they speculated why a new platesetter ate up most of their annual budgets.
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