The seven-staff commercial printer has replaced an existing B3 film imagesetter with the new machine, which images up to 14 plates an hour for its two Komori Lithrone presses.

The 25-year-old firm has benefited from eliminating the chemicals from its platesetting by using Agfa chemical-free plates, a move which has helped reduce the printer's waste removal costs.

Turville Printing Services partner Annette Culley told printweek.com the PlateRite has significantly increased the quality of its plates as well as making the operation more efficient.

She said: "As a chemistry-free operation, we no longer have the headache of disposing of waste safely."

Turville has also experienced an improvement in productivity in its platemaking by installing Screen's workflow suite, Trueflow.

Culley said the software receives the PDF file "where it is automatically trapped, imposed, proofed and sent directly to the platesetter for imaging".

She added: "It cuts out an entire process, which, as a small company of seven employees, has a huge impact on our business in terms of productivity."