The wave of CTP is surging. From 1990 to the end of 1996, more than 300 patent articles were published. In 1996, 55.3% of the top 100 printing companies in the United States adopted CTP systems, and 28.8% adopted color short-run digital printing systems.
Yangcheng Evening News In April 1998, Agfa's flatbed CTP plate-making machine and Fang's Optronics external drum CTP were put on trial in some editions of "New Express".
Since 1985, most newspapers and printing plants in various provinces and cities in mainland China have adopted laser phototypesetting and offset printing. The next technological transformation direction of these financially strong newspapers and printing plants is direct plate making, production of color newspapers, and high-end color printing and packaging printing. The scanning format is required to be expanded to folio (740*510), and the printing durability of the plate reaches 300,000 to 500,000 prints.
For newspaper printing, CTP saves manpower, improves quality, and reduces environmental pollution. Moreover, the streamlined and optimized process flow makes it easy to set up a continuous production line with a high degree of automation. In terms of newspapers, domestic national broadsheets have a higher degree of pre-press digitalization and more advanced technical equipment. Compared with foreign newspapers, there is no obvious gap. The domestic newspaper industry faces fierce competition. The CTP system can save 30-50 minutes in the entire publishing process. Therefore, especially for the publication of evening newspapers, the news deadline can be postponed by 30-50 minutes while the printing time remains unchanged. This is important for the news of the day. significance.
CTP system and technology have been regarded as a development direction of China's printing and publishing industry and have been included in the key science and technology projects of the national "Ninth Five-Year Plan". It is a typical high-tech, high-growth, high-return technology-intensive industry.
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