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Athena Graphics Raises the Bar in Plate Quality with XPS Crystal

Leading European prepress specialist, Athena Graphics, offers customers unmatched plate quality with the XPS Crystal exposure device.

The Challenge:

Enhance plate quality and expand platemaking production capacity.

The Solution:

Simultaneous front and back exposure with XPS Crystal 5080.

The Benefits:

Athena Graphics is now able to offer its customers unprecedented plate quality.

Case Study Summary

One of Europe’s leading prepress specialists, Athena Graphics is an international family owned business. What separates Athena Graphics from the competition is Athena Lab, where 6 people research and develop new technologies. As such, Athena Graphics intended to enhance its plate quality and expand its platemaking production capacity. Patented LED UV light technology in the innovative XPS Crystal allows precise and simultaneous back and main exposure. Unlike the fluctuating output of lightbulbs in other UV frames, the UV LEDs in the XPS Crystal emit consistent radiation. UV LEDs don’t need to warm-up either.

Athena Graphics intended to enhance its plate quality and expand its platemaking production capacity.

An investment in the XPS Crystal 5080 allowed for simultaneous front and back exposure.

Crystal yields plates with unmatched relief, image consistency and perfectly formed flat-top dots.

With the investment in the XPS Crystal we now have more capacity on our three CDIs and we can make the plates to higher quality standards because now we can give front and back exposure simultaneously.

Ignace Cosaert

Managing Director, Athena Graphics