Ashleigh Print goes for processless CTP with Suprasetter A52

Ashleigh Print has switched to processless CTP with the installation of a Heidelberg Suprasetter A52 platesetter, in a bid to reduce costs.

Founder and managing director Diane Ashleigh, whose office wall had to be knocked down to take delivery of the new platesetter, said she was "delighted" with the A52.

She said: "We wanted to go processless and reduce our chemistry bill and we think the quality is better."

Ashleigh, whose eponymous business runs a single and a two-colour GTO press, said that the decision to stick with Heidelberg was an easy one.

"Our business altered from the first day I bought Heidelberg equipment so I took no convincing to buy a Polar guillotine from them last November and the CTP device now," she said.

The company, which was founded in 1980, produces a range of work for local, national and export markets.