White Papers
Key insights for informed business decisions
Agfa’s engineers bring innovative technologies to the market each year, while our global network of business specialists closely monitor marketplace trends—all in an effort to bring you the knowledge you need to make smart business decisions. Our white papers provide in-depth examinations of the latest technical innovations, with key insights and explanations you can use to make informed business decisions in an ever-changing marketplace.
Understanding JDF
Any number of white papers exists on JDF (Job Definition Format). In fact just about every technology provider who has anything to do with print has published a white paper on the subject. Why? Because JDF...
Trends in Computer-to-Plate
If you are from Europe or North America, you are probably seeing the rise of digital printing as a prediction of things to come. But the truth of the matter is that despite the ongoing growth of digital pr...
Environmental Impact of Print
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), as defined by the European Commission, and the increasing demand for sustainable products have encouraged forward-looking companies to manage the environmental impact...
XM (Cross Modulated) Screening Technology
Eliminating film in the plate-making process has done more than shorten the workflow. Removing the intermediary image transfer has eliminated prepress registration errors and shortened press make-ready. Th...
The Future of Industrial Inkjet Printing
Today, digital printing is fast becoming the preferred method for short-run and variable-data applications. While toner-based systems, such as Xerox Docucolor™ currently dominate document and variable-data...
ThermoFuse CtP
Just as computer-to-plate eliminated the variables that come with film imaging, processing and copying to plate, ThermoFuse technology now makes it possible to do away with any remaining variables resultin...
CtP Technology benchmarking
With various CTP technologies available from which to choose, claim and counter claim from the different suppliers has been both frequent and, at times, contradictory. Often these claims are not based on f...
Sign & Display
The applications where fabrics can be used are only limited by the imagination: indoor decoration, banners & flags, exhibition stands, etc. More and more printers are incorporating digital fabrics printing...
Chemistry-free plates
2007 will mark the year when the first chemistry-free violet plate technologies begin to emerge, the question for the newspaper industry is how much impact this technology will make. This white paper exami...
