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plate production

"Plate production" before the modern printer and digital printing press was a simple operation to drive a typesetter - - a communications program. Althought it is still a "communications program", the ACT2² plate production software provides the user an ability to designate several output devices that may very well be a mix of digital printers, typesetters, color printers and black and white printers. The ACT2² software that controls the communication can be directed to send its output to a specific output device depending on the "category" that has been assigned the jobs making up the plate.

A plate may be directed to go to a color printer on one pass, to generate a proof; and then to a digital printer once the plate has been accepted for production.