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OK it is your opinion. I have similar impression about our local Kodak support. They work here like hunters and doesn't care about existing customers. Everything depends on local situation I suppose, but Agfa has big Plate System Support organisation and those people can solve problems quickly...

After some filed tests I can see that chem-free polymer plates like Agfa Azura V is much stable than any conventional polymer plates. Because of eliminating of chemical fluctuation and base of physical cleanout that plates gives more stability, no water in process and less maintenance time for...

I don't know if you want to buy anything but think about at least 60 mW to be able to use chem-free plates also. For silver plates 5 mW will be enough but you can't use any other plates. 30 mW is a border line allow to try polymer but it can be not safe. 60 mW is safe for all violet plates.

I suppose that someone is affraid that silver plates are only provided by Agfa. It's true, but the quality is excellent. Very high resolution (which is standard for silver halide technology), higher than any other digital plates. Run length is also high, up to 350.000 impressions. Canceling of...

Great... when you want to see nothing on plate choose ThermalDirect. Think that plate developing on press depends on fountain solution which is not design to develop plates. I saw founts which can't soften emulsion enough and founts which removes emulsion completly. But of course there are some...

You can buy "digital film manager" option for ApogeeX (may be ApogeeX upgrade to newest version will be required for new option) or connect your "new" ApogeeX directly to your PrintDrive.

It can be simple or complicated, it depends. Because of the procedure of Apogee licensing it is recomended to contact your local Agfa service. Some configuration parameters are available after switching to Service Mode which needs password. If you get platesetter and software with configured...

Here are all interesting packages (drivers for Win and PPD for Mac) Agfa Poland - Apogee Drivers Sorry that this is in polish but I hope that everyone can find what they are looking for :)

Such conversion is possible in Agfa Apogee Prepress using Press Repurposing option.

It depend on what RIPing system you use. For most cases the best situation is when the same renderer is used for platesetting and proofing. Of course I prefare Apogee Prepress with ColorTune and i1 or iSis (or older DTP-70, Spectrolino/Spectroscan). Why... because I have most experience in such...

What do you want to hear? Someone produce conventional plates and others produce platesetters with UV laser to expose them. Thats all ;) Another source of money...

Thx Derek for that long explanation. I can see that You are TD Man ;) so it is understandable and it is not a problem. You know that technology and can explain it perfectly... I hope. I would like to remind that ThermoFuse technology similar to TD was developed and patented by Agfa before 2000...

At the begening the problem is in not standard dot gain but quite big differences betwean separations. If you print Y & C on one unit and M & K on second one it is visible on your results. In that case you have the dot gain difference betwean printing units. You shoud review press condition and...

Steve; Everything is true but I suppose that this is not an answer for quite small companies using simple Apogee Manage and has no any MIS. It is quite strange to offer imposition software from competetive vendors like Kodak. So when Apogee can use JDF, PJTF or TPL formats for creating...

Interesting... I suppose that you don't make any platesetter maintenance also... I can understand that some kind of jobs can be printed using whatever plate ;) So for that kind of jobs ThermalDirect is good enough. For top quality jobs we have to control every step quickly and precisely... this...