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Esprit
VIOLET COMPUTER TO PLATE IMAGER
HIGH PERFORMANCE AND QUALITY
BROUGHT TO THE TABLE TOP

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High Performance Without The High Price

Are you evaluating CTP solutions but find justification difficult due to equipment cost?
Are you looking for a CTP solution that works within your film and analog plate budget?
Are you concerned over spending large sums of money for back-up simply for redundancy sake?
Are you ready to take the next step in streamlining your production with high quality CTP?

All these goals have been achieved with the Esprit Computer To Plate imager from alfaQuest. At the core of every Esprit is the proven technology found in alfaQuest's renowned and successful line of High Speed, High Quality FasTRAK 150 - 180 - 225 PPH and NewsXpress 100 PPH Computer To Plate imagers, but at an unparalleled, lower price point.

Do You Need Some Economic Stimulus

Esprit has been designed and developed to meet the production and cost demands of community and suburban newspapers as well as to provide low cost, high quality CTP redundancy in larger production facilities.

Although many low cost CTP products are based on unproven technologies which provide inferior imaging quality and low reliability. alfaQuest has provided the ultimate solution in Esprit, a Computer To Plate imager using the same optics and the same plate feeding technology which is in use in many of the newspapers industry's most demanding CTP production environments.

So What's The Esprit All About

Esprit delivers high quality CTP basics at a truly affordable price - pure and simple. Whether installed on a table top or on its optional stand, Esprit is all about imaging plates. Esprit incorporates the proven and reliable imaging technology of FasTRAK and NewsXpress CTP. This means all Violet plates certified by alfaQuest, including chemistry and process free plates can be imaged with Esprit.

Multiple RIP And Workflow Choices

Esprit can receive bitmap data from either the OS-X based alfa CTP Workflow utilizing the Harlequin Genesis 3 RIP, or the Adobe™ CPSI based RipExpress II on Windows workstations. The interface between the RIP and the Esprit imager is LaserBus 2, permitting interconnection of multiple RIPs and recorders without an external multiplexer.

With alfaQuest's wide array of CTP workflow software you are able to configure a system specifically for your exact application. Together we can make the dream come true.

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