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Originally Posted by steve B
When were these first discovered?
I was just looking up some info about a thought I had, and I may want one of these even more.
Current technology can digitally produce the plates on the press, with essentially no physical process. Or digitally done but off the press.
The early technologies to do this might explain some of the weirdness.
UV process free plates- Not on press 3M 1995, Kodak 2001. Both failures for a few reasons.
Digital thermal plates- Kodaks fist successful ones 2005 but there were others before that.
https://www.kodak.com/content/produc...e-paper-EN.pdf |
I have known about them since around 2008. I never got into all the rare versions till around that time. Jon or Jerry would know more than me in that area. I will email both and ask and get back.
I was recently talking to a retired printer and he says real printing presses are becoming obsolete very quickly and what used to be top of the line Hidelbergs now sell for pennies on the dollar.
When did Zerox come out with the iGen?