The Glunz & Jensen PlateWriter2000 will provide much better quality than a HP laser printer and polyester plates. Having said that there are some "part funded" finance deals provided by G&J to enable users to finance over 3 years, the deal I saw last week, was 10 months interest free OR $800 deposit and Nothing to pay for 3 months, then 33 months of payments at a much more palatable $200 per week. having said that, there are users in your bracket specially small print shops and in-plants who seek chemistry free and hate cleaning processors, ect that desitre a "no maintenance solution" that seek them out. and maybe an installation charge, depending on where you go.Īt only 5 - 10 plates a week, I think this makes the unit difficult to make a return on your investment, really it is aimed at users making 100 - 1000 plates per month. the Glunz & Jensen PalteWriter 2000 unit should set you back $25,000 (circa) with some kind of delivery charge. It comes with everything you need including the Harlequin RIP and hardware platform. plus no labour costs, as you only load the plate and click print.
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The Metal plates will set you back between $2.50 - $2.68 per plate, and the only other cost is the ink, which will depend upon coverage, but for an average letterhead or business card will be around an additional 25-35c and for full coverage flyers come up to nearer 75c +.
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The plates are loaded with an optical registration system and it is very accurate, relpeatable and smooth throughout the tonal ranges providing nice flat tints and well contoured gradients. it is a chemistry free system, as you only use the ink and then heat to fix the ink to the plate. Then using the integrated finishing unit below, it cures the image onto the plate for circa 50,000 impressions. It uses heavily modified inkjet printer running at either 2880 x 2880 dpi or 1440 x 1440 dpi and jets a diazo based specialist ink on to a metal plate.
The Glunz & Jensen PlateWriter2000, is the third generation inkjet CTP system from Glunz & Jensen. The Glunz & Jensen solution for a QM-46 is the PlateWriter 2000, I suspect though that this system would be difficult to justify given your plate volume.
"JamieZ" suggested looking at the Glunz & Jensen system. You don't say where in the world you are, US or Europe.
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