Tomorrow is Right Around the Corner

It's a very exciting time, as we are finally on the brink of having large-capacity manufacturing and a distribution system for sleeves, making the technology truly practical.

pP: What doCTS capabilities allow companies to do that they weren't able to do in the past?

Hole: All things being equal, a perfect sleeve is better than a perfect flat plate because it is imaged, exposed, and processed in its final printing shape, while a flat plate is shaped for the press at the mounting stage. Sleeve-to-sleeve registration is very accurate, and elements such as open reverses of the image have already taken on the angle of curvature of the sleeve. There is no post-exposure print cylinder distortion—no plate stretch; it's already worked out of the process. This produces the ultimate, accurate image.