At present, China’s CTP market is on the track of a fully-fledged market and has witnessed new highs in the number of CTP manufacturers, types of technologies and varieties of plates. In the development of CTP technology, thermal CTP, UV CTP and CTcP technology have dominated the most CTP market of China. By using conventional plates, the large breadth CTP greatly reduces the use cost and enhances the market competition of companies, so CTcP becomes a characteristic plate making method in our country. Now, let’s have a look into the AMSKY V5569U VLF CTP and appreciate its unique charm of making plates with conventional plates.
AMSKY AUSETTER V5569U CTP
High precision, high reliability, modular design
Fully-developed and reliable laser
AMSKY V5569U adopts fully-developed and reliable 64 or 128-channel discrete 405 nm laser diode technology. Operated in bright room and with service life of up to tens of thousands of hours, the laser can expose clear and sharp dots and make plates with higher durability and stability.
AMSKY V5569U uses external drum method which can simulate the plate holding method of the press and finish the exposing process of large breadth plate easily. However, the method has short light path which increases the difficulty of laser focusing when the manufacturing of the external drum is not precise, the drum is stained by the dust, plates are blemished in shipping, or the laser on the moving platform is out of tune with the drum. The laser point of AMSKY V5569U is as tiny as10.68μm, so the slight change in the focal distance can cause the deviation in the size of light spot and affect the size of the exposed dot, and eventually affect the whole printing work.
With AMSKY V5569U CTP, there is no need to worry about it anymore. Equipped with the industry-leading dynamic autofocus technology, the device can conduct the real-time follow-up to the change on the plate surface and adjust the position of lens automatically and calibrate the focal distance among the dots on the plate. The accurate ranging system can measure the distance change as slight as 0.1μm and guarantee the constant distance between the exposure dot and the lens. Every light spot can be exposed under the optimized focal distance, so all dots are uniform in size and clear and sharp in edge. Thanks to the precise exposure compensation, AMSKY V5569U can present a perfect gray scale gradient from 1% to 99%.
In addition, the external drum method may also produce the parallelogram distortion due to the multi-channel laser scanning at the same time. AMSKY V5569U CTP, with the unique graphic calibration technology, can make perfect rectangle and eliminate the deviation in size caused by the different plate thickness. The plate registration precision can reach 8μm on the same device and can be calibrated to 20μm and below on different devices.
Temperature compensation
As we all know, the base of the CTP plate is made of aluminum which changes along with the temperature change. For instance, a set of plates are manufactured in the morning, and then when we mend or reproduce them in the afternoon, the dots on the plate will be deviated due to the expansion and contraction effect caused by the temperature change, which will affect the plate registration and waste the time to prepare printing. AMSKY V5569U CTP, equipped with temperature compensation system, can easily solve this problem. The system can keep the plates in a constant temperature range automatically, thus achieve accurate and repeatable imaging and maintain a high consistency of plate.
Auto thermostatic control of laser
A certain degree of light intensity attenuation may occur to the laser over time and the degree of attenuation varies among different laser heads. It’s very important to keep the light intensity of lasers consistent to ensure the plate making quality. AMSKY V5569U CTP can calibrate the light intensity in the constant temperature automatically. In the precise constant temperature environment, the laser automatically adjusts the laser intensity every eight hours to ensure the stability of plate making.
Other unique features
AMSKY V5569U CTP also has other unique features to ensure the precision and stability. AMSKY V5569U adopts high precision and indestructible external drum covered with ceramic, the revolution runout being less than 10 microns. Its highly-reliable plate clamp system is designed with great tolerance and has passed the fatigue test of over 200,000 times and recorded over 4 million hours of no fly-off. In addition, the high-performance dedusting system is able to absorb the dust caused in the plate printing and collect the dust to the dust bag. The device also features three-level centrifugal vacuum pump powered by aviation science and technology with small size and low energy consumption. All improvements made for AMSKY V5569U CTP are to provide users with high-precision and high-stability plate-making experience.
High adaptability, multiple applications
Speed and size
Despite the use of conventional PS plate, AMSKY V5569U CTP does not lag behind in the speed of plate making. AMSKY V5569U CTP can print 24 plates every hour at 2400dpi. Under the 64-channel and 128-channel imaging system, AMSKY V5569U CTP can print 12 and 24 pieces every hour respectively.
The plate size of AMSKY V5569U CTP ranges from as large as 1400 mm × 1750 mm to as small as 700 mm × 600 mm, applicable to various printing companies with different demands.
High-speed USB 2.0 interface
In order to reduce the investment in both hardware and software, AMSKY V5569U didn’t design its own digital workflow. The mainstream and mature digital workflow on the market, such as Heidelberg Prinect, Kodak Prinergy, Founder ElecRoc, etc. can integrate with AMSKY V5569U CTP seamlessly. With high-speed USB2.0 interface, AMSKY V5569U CTP supports plug and play like a desktop printer, providing great convenience to users.
High-quality after-sales service
AMSKY V5569U’s marketing strategy includes 22 service networks in ten major service regions across the country. All of them respond to the service call in 4 hours and solve the problems around the clock to provide customers with fast, considerate and satisfactory service.
In addition, the company offers a complete set of solutions for some small and medium-sized printing companies and combines the CTP with the printing process, making the advantages of quality, efficiency and cost of CTP more outstanding.
At present, by virtue of the company’s elaborately manufacturing and excellent sales reputation, AMSKY V5569U is seeing a sales upsurge.
Low cost
Real PS plate CTP
AMSKY V5569U series CTP have three plate making methods: conventional PS plate, high photosensitive PS plate and UV plate, for users to select appropriate method suitable to their needs. Therefore, the most outstanding advantage of AMSKY V5569U is that it can use conventional PS plate for direct plate making. At present, a lot of manufacturers on the market claim that they can produce CTP devices using conventional plate, but many of them need to use high photosensitive PS plate and UV plate, and there are strict limitations on the selection of plates. AMSKY V5569U can use conventional PS plates without any limitations, which greatly reduces the plate cost and help users seize the opportunities in the fierce competition of printing industry.
Significant cost advantage
Superior in functions and advantageous in overall cost, AMSKY V5569U CTP is highly cost-effective. Compared to the conventional plate-making process, AMSKY V5569U CTP greatly saves not only the manpower, material resources and financial resources by eliminating a series of steps, such as the film outputting, plate makeup, exposure, developing, etc., but also relieves the cost pressure from using CTP plate. In addition, the high-quality key parts imported from abroad reduce the use cost and maintenance cost a lot, as well as the overall holding cost of AMSKY V5569U CTP. Designed by the modular concept, it’s easy to replace the spare parts of AMSKY V5569U CTP and the laser can be upgraded. This facilitates the printing companies who don’t have too much money to buy the devices in the earlier stage and need to upgrade their devices after the growth of output capacity. It’s not exaggerated to say that AMSKY V5569U CTP is one of the PS plate CTPs with the lowest cost on the market.
Brief comment
By using conventional PS plate, AMSKY V5569U CTP can achieve large breadth plate making. It also features low plate use cost, improved quality and stability, higher production efficiency and feasibility in various industry needs. On China’s printing market where cost, quality, efficiency and stability take precedence, AMSKY V5569U CTP is no doubt a leader in seizing the market opportunity.
Technical Specifications of AMSKY V5569U
Exposing Method External Drum
Imaging System 64/128-channel Discrete 405nm laser
Output Speed 12/24plates/hour 1050×1300mm 2400dpi
Plate Size Max. 1400×1750mm Min. 700×600
Exposing Size Max. 1384×1750 Min. 684×600mm
Media Type Conventional PS plate
Plate Thickness 0.15mm ～0.4mm
Resolutions 2400dpi
Repeatability ±8μm (Continuous exposure over four times on the same plate with a temperature of 23℃ and 60% RH)
Interface USB2.0
Plate loading First manual, then autoload (standard)
Net Weight 3300KG
Device Size 2880×1310×1310mm (W×D×H)
Power Supply Single phase: 220V，±6% Power: 4.5KW
Environment Recommended temperature: 21-25℃ Allowable temperature: 18-26℃ Humidity: 40-70%
