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CTP 101 - Successfully implementing CTP requires printers to manage the transition to a dramatically transformed manufacturing process. This article will review key concerns for quick and small commercial printers evaluating an all-digital workflow.
Computer to Plate - A page of Computer to Plate Articles
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Direct to Plate Process - In the Desktop Publishing forum, this message describes what CtP is and whether there is a difference in the types of color jobs that would use direct to plate.
Electronic Exchange - A Discussion of Computer-to-Plate Technology
Endangered Species? The State Of The Imagesetter - Although the range of the imagesetter has been reduced significantly by the sexy new technologies of computer-to-plate (CTP) and computer-to-press printing, it is in no danger of going the way of the dinosaur. While some pundits have been predicting the end of film for almost a decade, the film imagesetter still has a large piece of the market-at least, for now.
Fine Print (PDF) - CTP and CTP Proofs
IPA - Computer to Plate resources
Platesetting FAQs - For the printer, CTP allows faster registration, quicker ink balance and higher color densities without appreciable dot gain in the highlights through midtones.
SWOP Specs- Ninth Edition - Computer to Plate info in there somewhere
What is Computer to Plate (CTP)? Definition of Computer to Plate (CTP).
What is Computer-to-Plate ? - Computer-to-plate is the process of transferring digital data from computers directly onto printing plates, hence the term computer-to-plate. This process eliminates the need for film and chemical proofs by utilising PDF files. Contract quality digital proofs are produced for colour matching.
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