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Article: Super-size it! VLF CTP market expands: more printers are eyeing very-large-format computer-to-plate platesetters for increased productivity.(The Business of Print)
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- Graphic Arts Monthly
- Article date:
- December 1, 2003
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Thanks to a growing market for large-format sheetfed and web presses, as well as the need for increased efficiency in all types of print environments, demand continues to heat up for very-large-format (VLF) computer-to-plate (CFP) devices, which are capable of imaging plates wider than 42" of 44". Indeed, users are discovering plenty of advantages of supersizing their CTP capabilities.
"The market for VLF seems to be bigger than originally projected," notes Dave Parker, vice president of sales and marketing in the U.S. for VLF platesetter maker Luscher. Once, he says, the market was defined only by users with a need for big plates, but that didn't account for ...