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Agfa, at the end of last year, launched the :Amigo thermal plate, the first addition to its portfolio of ThermoFuse plates. ThermoFuse is a patented imaging technology - which forms [...]

Agfa manufactures wide format digital kit as well as ink and media consumables. Its latest offering is the Anapurna, capable of printing media up to 254cm (100in) wide. Willy van [...]

Agfa says that its Azura chemistry-free platemaking system is attracting strong interest just weeks after it was rolled out in the UK. The company has booked in 15 demonstrations in [...]

While it was not one of the early movers in processless plates, Agfa is hoping its Azura plate will make a big impact commercially By Tom Hawkins Agfa is looking [...]

It is difficult to put into some sort of context how rapidly the industry was changing when Agfa first introduced the Repromaster camera in the early 1970s. Typesetting was changing [...]

Agfa has announced the commercial availability of its chemistry-free platesetting package. The system uses the Azura non-ablative aluminium plate, which is based on Agfa's Thermolite Plus plate, in the Acento [...]

While the advent of ctp was a major step forward in environmental terms from the use of exposed film, all the major plate manufacturers are now focusing on solutions that [...]

Agfa now has a Grand Sherpa display printer in the north of England thanks to investment by creative graphics company Cypher. The 87in wide inkjet printer has been delivered with [...]

The invasion of the processless plate is growing stronger day by day with all the advantages that it will bring. But will that spell the end of litho plate development? [...]

The major suppliers of digital and analogue plates for commercial printing applications are Agfa, Fuji and KPG. Plates are also available from a number of other companies mostly offering only [...]

Screen's Ultima provides one of the alternatives for those wanting high throughput of B1 plates as by imaging in tandem it can reach 34 plates per hour. It is however [...]

Agfa has launched a double wide version of its Polaris newspaper platesetter. Coming with a choice of violet or Yag laser and a cassette capacity of 2,000 plates the unit [...]

Agfa unveiled the new contract digital proofer, the Sherpa 44m, in its line up of wide format systems. The unit has a high-resolution inkjet system with the latest seven-colour piezo [...]

Agfa, already the largest prepress supplier in the world, has signalled its intention to be king of the large format print market. David Preskett, Agfa's European LFP sales manager, is [...]

Though it holds a large market share of the inkjet proofing solutions business thanks to its Sherpa printers and sophisticated software support, Agfa has not enjoyed a large presence in [...]

Agfa has announced that its fiftieth Polaris ctp system in the UK is now up and running at The Yorkshire Post. It completes an order for three Polaris units and [...]

Interest in ctp from the B2 market is growing rapidly with Agfa notching more than 30 installations of its Palladio platesetter since Ipex. One of the latest is Fleet Litho, [...]

Byline: MAYU MISHINA Managing editor | mmishina@primediabusiness.com SAMANTHA OLLER Senior associate edit Last month's Ipex continued the run of industry shows that offered glimpses into today's CTP trends. New product [...]

Agfa has announced that QMS Quality Management Software has been integrated into its six-color AgfaJet Sherpa digital color proofing system. Developed for contract proofing, QMS assures identical results from Sherpa [...]

Agfa, in its next-generation computer-to-plate (CTP) solution, offers individual systems that provide users with the choice in throughput, format, run length, and working environment that matches their needs. The Galileo [...]

Small and mid-sized printers looking to output the highest-quality images possible have a wide array of new and improved digital imaging products to choose from. Tools from scanners and proofers [...]

Agfa's AgfaJet Sherpa 2 (shown) is a high-productivity digital ink-jet proofing system that uses pre-cut sheets for imposition proofing. Sherpa 2 offers two-sided printing for accurate imposition testing, and prints [...]

Agfa's LiteSpeed, a liquid lithographic coating material, is sprayed onto a metal substrate on press to create a lithographic printing form. The form can be imaged immediately after application and [...]

Agfa offers individual computer-to-plate systems that provide users with several choices in throughput, format, run length, and working environment characteristics. The Galileo Talant offers processor-free thermal platesetting, while the internal-drum [...]

Agfa's Thermostar range of thermal plates includes the P971, a 1,064-nm offering optimized for use with the company's Galileo family of plate manufacturing systems. The Thermostar P971 features no pre-bake [...]

Eight-page devices gain popularity, but smaller units, systems that expose polyester plates, and multi-laser models are coming on strong. Since last fall, new image-setter models have been introduced to the [...]

Agfa has released the latest in its series of educational publications, An Introduction to Computer-to-Plate Printing. The volume provides an overview of the many essential aspects of working with and [...]

AgfaEs Sublima is touted to be the advanced screening technology that assures top-most quality of print with no extra cost and effort on press. Sublima combines traditional amplitude-modulation (AM) screening with frequency-modulation (FM) screening for delivering the best quality images in print.

Agfa's SherpaMatic is a 43-inch digital proofer that automatically turns the paper over in exact alignment for unattended, two-sided proofing. It uses multi-density piezo electric technology for contract-quality proofs. It [...]

A single interactive disk from Agfa contains 350 screens and 630 MB of useful information. Earlier this year, Agfa introduced on an interactive CD-ROM disk its Guide to Digital Color [...]