Year-to-date sales to the end of June also grew healthily and were up 11%. Dalton said the firm had outperformed the plate market by 10%, though he was unable to reveal market share.
"The growth of plates is just under 2% and we are over 12%, which is a hell of a lot by market share," he said.
Dalton hinted that news on big installations of its hardware Fuji sells a violet-based CTP product was on the way. And he dismissed criticism that Fuji hadn't yet entered the ink-jet printer market, unlike rivals Screen and Agfa.
"Everyone says the future is in ink-jet but I would say the future is a very long way away. We sell today what [customers] can make money from today," he said.
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