As usual you only post one sided info and no link for easy
confirmation. This is the whole article. It talks about the
"new" QM-DI and PEARLgold plates on the Creo
trendsetter.
Maybe Kodak is having trouble, were you wrong about
Kodak plates on the SM-74DI as well. Oh, and the SM-74 will not be for sale until mid-1999. Given that the Scitex machine is the same footprint, how many 74 karats will sell ahead of the Heidelberg.
Every one that does will be imaging PRST plates also.
dotprint.com
The Speedmaster 74 DI will be on the Heidelberg stand at
Ipex alongside two new web presses, new versions of Creo's
Trendsetter platesetters, ten-unit Speedmaster 102 and an
eight-unit Speedmaster 74 with twin perfecting units.
It is the Speedmaster 74 DI, a six-colour B2 direct imaged
machine that will be the major attraction for most printers.
Together with the Quickmaster DI, it will be displayed in a
DI Theatre showing production flows for both B3 and B2
formats.
While the new press will be shown it is not expected to go
on sale until mid-1999. The press also offers coating,
perfecting unit and drying options. The company says it is
"the ideal growth path for current users of the Quickmaster
DI". This press is to be shown in a new version - the
Quickmaster DI plus with an imaging time cut to four
minutes and enhanced colour control across 12 colour
zones.
However, the whole stand is likely to be overshadowed by
the web presses, where a gapless technology press will be
running. This is the SP (for Sunday Press) 1826, a 24pp press
designed for the commercial web printer. The stand will also
have a unit from the new 48pp SP2546 web, which features
Autoplate and Autoweb Up systems which are intended to
slash set up times.
The smaller end of the web market is covered by the new M8
press showing for the first time. In the commercial print
sector, B1 printers will be able to see a ten-unit Speedmaster
102, six-colour CD 102 and a six colour CD 102 plus coater.
In B2, an eight-unit Speedmaster 74 with perfecter after the
second and fourth print units is joined by a five-colour
Speedmaster 74 with coater and extended delivery and a
two-colour 74.
The display will feature integration of the Speedmaster 74
with ctp systems. These will come from Heidelberg partner
Creo which is showing an automatic plate loading version of
its 3244 Trendsetter thermal platesetter with online punch.
More interesting will be the 3230 A, a Trendsetter
designed to image no process ablative thermal plates.
This will be working with Presstek1s PearlGold plate. The
Trendsetter Spectrum proofing versions in four-page and
eight-page versions are also present.
The key development from Heidelberg Prepress is Delta
V5.5, incorporating PDF. This is the platform chosen to drive
the Speedmaster 74-DI. Signastation becomes a software
only application running on Windows NT platforms while
DaVinci is offered as a system to carry out preflighting and
Tiff/IT and PDF editing station.
In the smaller format, the Quickmaster is offered with
numbering and perforating units. A new version of the press
will be ready early in 1999 but will be on the stand. |
