Plate Exposing Machine

The printing plate exposure machine presses the original plate and the photographic plate together, then tightly combines them using atmospheric and mechanical pressure so that the original plate is exactly copied onto the photographic plate. Fully Automatic Precision Exposure Machine.The basic image-carrying surface in a printing process, which can be made of a variety of substances, such as various metals (as those used in letterpress and lithography), rubber, or plastic (such as those used in flexography).A machine that generates plates for a printing press. A platesetter is similar in function to an imagesetter, except that instead of producing film from which the plates are made, the plates themselves are made. See imagesetter and CTP.