Advantage ... Digital

Suppliers acknowledge the reluctance of many trade shops to follow the digital path. Says MacDermid’s Barba, “There is still a huge group of analog plate advocates, who don’t need the benefits of the digital workflow, yet can still achieve superior print quality. For those, there are new flexo plate exposure technologies entering the market that allow printers to achieve near digital plate quality, without (the) large capital investment” in equipment required by digital platemaking.