• Most press reports describe the 2004 Drupa show as the ‘JDF-Drupa’. Even though the newly released JDF 1.2 specs are the first that can be considered ‘mature’ and a ‘JDF Now’ campaign is launchds to promote its use, actual JDF usage is still limited to a few early adopters.

• Punch International acquires basysPrint, whose UV-Setter family of CtP systems can use conventional printing plates.

• Presstek, specialists in process-free CtP technology, acquires ABDick.

• Agfa introduces :Azura, its first chemistry-free Ctp plate. The company also acquires Italian plate manufacturer Lastra and ProImage, an Israeli software company that focusses on newspaper workflow systems.

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