Winch type and drum typesetting machine selection

Five years ago, if you asked a dealer or prepress expert how to choose an imagesetter: roller type or winch type? He would probably tell you: If you are pursuing high speed and easy operation, and printing black and white or monochrome, two-color printing, should be selected Winch type; to produce three-color, four-color or five-color high-quality prints, obviously should be selected roller type.
Although most experts still have the same recommendations today, some believe that the technical level of winch has greatly improved, and the price of drum systems has also dropped. The difference between the two is no longer obvious. The two previous technologies The difference lies mainly in quality and speed: the winch speed is fast and the drum type is of good quality. Nowadays, the technical improvement of the winch and the reduction of the drum type price, the speed increase, greatly narrows the difference between the two. But each phototypesetter Still have their own advantages and disadvantages.

Purchase Trends Due to the relatively easy time for people to pay for winch imagesetters, the total volume in the printing market is much greater. According to the survey results of relevant departments, more than three-quarters of the indoor imagesetters are winch-type, and the recent purchase trend is clearly shifting to the drum type.