TRIED & TESTED: ECRM DPX

摘要

Since ECRM bought it in 2006, this versatile CTP unit has been spruced up with a host of upgrades and refinements. Now more than a decade old, the DPX CTP system was hailed as the first polyester platesetter to challenge analogue polyester platesetters and imagesetters when it was unveiled in 1994 by Esko-Graphics. The 420, as it was previously known (a reference to its imaging width), was among the first UK machines to ride the crest of the UK's CTP revolution. It was renamed the DPX2 after Esko sold the manufacturing rights of the machine to ECRM in 2006. Designed for the B3 two-up printer, more than 600 DPX units have been installed by distributor Apex Digital Graphics. Apex has been associated with the machine almost from its inception after being appointed as the sole UK distributor in 1996 following the demise of its former dealer AM International.