Development of Environmentfriendly Process （环保的发展过程）.pdf

Development of Environment-friendly Process-less CTP Plate “PRO-T3 (Domestic Name : XZ-R)” Takanori MORI*, Mamoru KURAMOTO*, Yuriko ISHIGURO*, Mayuko KANEHISA*, Hidekazu OHASHI**, and Ikuo KAWAUCHI* Abstract We developed a new environment-friendly, process-less CTP Plate “PRO-T3 (domestic name: XZ-R)”, offering high press start-up stability. In the development of “PRO-T3”, we established two technologies: Fine Particle Dispersion (FPD) and Rapid Stable Start-up (RSS). This article is a review of these two noteworthy new technologies, as applied to PRO-T3. 1. Introduction The printing market’s environment has drastically changed. Today, printing companies can hardly survive without increasing productivity, reducing delivery time, cutting cost and being environment-friendly. Computer to Plate (CTP) technology helps increase productivity, ensure stable quality, eliminate use of intermediate materials and reduce cost. Because of these advantages, CTP is now used for 70% of all the printing services in the world or 80% in Japan. CTP is virtually a de facto standard for printing. Fig. 1 Label for process-less CTP plate. Environmental awareness is increasing among users. The printing industry has established its voluntary standards as Eco-friendly design of a plate is certified with part of efforts for environmental conservation. One of the environment-friendly printing label (clione label) (E3PA). The standards is the Green Printing Certification program by highest grade is called Gold Plus. In the case of a pri