Kodak releases new process free plates

Kodak Sonora is launching the new UV process free plate, a new addition to its process-free technology portfolio.

The company claims these plates expands the capability of its process free plate portfolio to an even wider group of service providers. Kodak says the plates are capable of delivering longer run lengths for UV print applications than any other process free plate, up to 30,000 impressions.

Kodak says this allows printers to take advantage of both the environmental and economic benefits of process free plates and the expanded set of opportunities associated with UV technology, including flexibility, high print quality, and faster drying times.

These plates are capable of running on sheetfed, heatset web, and commercial coldset presses and can run applications such as commercial print, newspapers, offset packaging and UV. For packaging printers, Kodak says the Sonora UV Plates meets the demands of UV print applications increasingly used by today's packaging and commercial printers, but it will also enable printers to take advantage of both the environmental and economic benefits of process free plates.

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Richard Rindo, general manager worldwide offset print and vice president print systems division, Kodak says, “Kodak is committed to investing in R&D that advances the capabilities of print service providers and equips them to offer a wider range of applications and tackle new markets while accomplishing all that in the most environmentally way possible.

"Over 3,000 customers around the world are yielding significant cost and environmental benefits from Sonora and with Kodak manufacturing facilities now located in the USA, Europe, Japan and China, printers across the globe benefit from faster supply, support and customer service.”

Torsten Gröger, production director at cre art Die Werbeproduktion in Fulda, Germany says, “As far as we are concerned, there is no alternative to Kodak’s process free plates when it comes to UV printing. We simply do not have room for a plate processor, and these plates have the general advantage of less effort and lower costs for plate making as well as more stability.

The plates are now available to order for Australian customers.

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