新聞印刷CTP の現状と取り組み

抄録

Number of CTP installation for newspaper printing has been grown rapidly either in Japan and the world. According to the IFRA (INCA-FIEJ Research Association) investigation, the installation number over the world increased and amounted to 2, 189 sets on October 2000 by about 3.5 times more compared with the year 2000. Also in Japan, the installation number on April 2005 amounted to about 157 sets, and has grown rapidly about 13 times more compared with the year 2002. In conjunction with "screening technology" and "workflow system" newspaper CTP has development from the conventional "direct plate making equipment" to the "Total CPT system" and the "high-value-added CPT system." Especially, Asahi Shimbun did production run of advertisements 8 times more by using CTP and FM screening technology from August 2004 to the end of June 2005, and attracts many attentions from the advertiser, the advertising agency, and the allied industry people. Moreover, the Yomiuri Shimbun put into practical use the first thermal CPT for newspaper in Japan, installed 68 sets of CTP as 16 factories produced about 60% of all jobs by CTP from December 2002 until now, and has got high evaluation on laborsaving workflow system. In this paper, I want to introduce as follows "it is entitled the present condition of the newspaper CTP", "An environment to surround newspaper CTP", "The latest trend of the newspaper CTP", "The present condition of the newspaper CTP in Japan" and "the challenging cases of the main newspaper companies."