High Definition Exposure

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• High Definition Exposure
• No Longer for the Little Guy

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eXact Platemaking

• Won the 2003 FPPA Technology Innovator Award
• Tagline Digital Quality at Analog Prices
• Further development has shown that we also
  improve digital plates
• Wholeheartedly embracing the inevitable
• Introducing today another innovation

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eXact and DigitalA Marriage Made in Heaven
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Digital Platemaking Today

• Advancements in ablation
• Advancements in plate technologies
• Assume a bump curve is required because of no
  advancements in exposure technology
• Sacrifices in tonal range due to oxygen depletion

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Is a Bump Curve Necessary?

• With banklight exposure it is
• As the UV is slowly being delivered to the plate,
  oxygen is being depleted thereby shrinking the
  dots
• What would happen if you could deliver greater
  amounts of UV to the photopolymer in shorter
  periods of time?

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Cortrons Answer to Digital Exposure

• Eliminate the need for the bump curve
• Linear exposure is possible (1-98)
• Recapture the lost tonal range

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Introducing

• eXact Scanning Exposure

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What is Scanning Exposure?

• A beam emitting light source that rapidly
  traverses the photopolymer delivering a set
  number of joules
• Developed in conjunction with some of the top
  trade shops in the US

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Why Scanning Exposure?

• Inherent difficulties with bank light systems
• Point light systems have not been proven for
  larger plate sizes
• Fixed reflector systems like the eXact 3040 are
  more efficient for smaller formats
• Easily adapted to other formats

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How it Has Been Adapted

• eXact 5280 SE
• eXact ITR
• Other formats planned shortly

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eXact 5280 SE

• Dual headed, patented liquid cooled light source
• 16 wide beam of light
• Chilled bed
• Digitally integrated
• Selectable exposure based on plate size
• Touchscreen operation

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eXact ITR

• Up to 90 sleeves
• Up to 52 repeat
• Single or double plasma source design
• Post expose and de-tack option
• Programmable exposure speeds

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eXact 3648

• Development nearly completed
• Scanning exposure and de-tack
• Chilled bed
• Taking orders with deliveries beginning in June

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Benefits of Scanning Exposure

• Ability to eliminate the CTP bump curve
• Recapture the lost tonal range through linear
  exposure
• Faster exposures
• Uniform floors
• Plate-to-plate consistency
• Less rejects
• Better quality analog and digital plates
• Easily adapted to other formats

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eXact

• No Longer Just for the Little Guys