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Technology Stocks : Presstek -- Stock of the Decade?? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Steve Andrew who wrote (9963)	9/18/1998 11:43:00 AM
From: SG	Respond to of 11098

From an e-mail I received from and industry watch person. "On Monday there's a 3 hour marathon press conference with heidelberg at Ipex followed after a short refreshment break by a session with Creo." "Something will come out of this and with sessions with Presstek in the next week or so. Your thinking does not surprise me as the system that Creo and Heidelberg appear to have chosen, moving the laser head away from the press when printing strikes me as prone to inaccuracy. Heidelberg is talking about a two minute imaging time for each plate, again something that's pushing the edge of technology. I don't know enough about the Presstek laser, but the obvius reason has to be that while a Presstek array has 24/32/48 laser diodes to attack the plate, Creo has 480 separately modulated beams on its conventional platesetter, 240 on its thermal, so even 120 beams say would offer a faster imaging speed. Not much use if it doesn't work however." "I believe you are right to be bullish, but I stress the need for patience. Some real news next week" It will be interesting to hear the news that will come from this Ipex show. Things that make ya go Hmmmmm..... Good luck to each and all SG