The Espresso is a B2 machine that can expose 20 conventional UV sensitive plates per hour.

Pricing and availability will be announced at Drupa, but the firm has already said it intended to make it affordable for smaller printers.

"We are thrilled with the Espresso, and believe it will be readily embraced by the industry," said vice president marketing commercial printing Kjeld Moselund. "Imaging lower-priced conventional plates at high speed provides an economic benefit. Doing so with a reliable straightforward UV platesetter meeting high-quality printing standards offers a major competitive advantage."

"It is a product, we will demonstrate the product live at Drupa and take orders," "It's not a future technology be shown in the dark; this is a product," said director of corporate marketing Jef Stoffels.

 It is a development of the technology concept that Purup-Eskofot first showed at Drupa 2000 under the name Dicon.

Story by Barney Cox