Changing industry drives sales for Screen's B1 thermal setter

Screen has said that demand for its latest B1 thermal CTP platesetter, the PlateRite 8000, shows the industrys need for format flexibility.

Screen has recently installed PlateRite 8000s, which can produce a range of plates from 1,160x949mm to 450x370mm, at Clearpoint Colourprint in

Nottingham, Replica Origination in Redhill and MWL Group in Pontypool.

Replica Origination managing director Paul Burton said: "Our PlateRite 8000II has the flexibility to handle 32 different sized jobs."

Replica Originations 140,000 CTP investment includes a PlateRite 8000II, Kodak Polychrome Graphics (KPG) Mercury processor and a Hewlett-Packard 5000 ink-jet proofer.