Annual Report 2002 - Agfa

visible-light printing plate
Plate sensitive to visible light, for all types of offset
printing. It is most popular among commercial and
newspaper printers. Visible-light technology uses
visible-light laser diodes to expose or image a printing
plate. The most common visible-light sources are green
and violet laser diodes.
web-album
The AGFAnet solution provides web pages on the
website which allows customers to display their
images, as in a photo album, and from which prints
can be ordered directly via the Internet.
wholesale finishing
The business of developing and printing images onto
photographic paper using industrial high-speed
printers that can produce up to 20,000 prints per hour
workflow management software
Software that streamlines the flow of work by
automating individual steps in the prepress process –
thus saving time and reducing costs.
X-ray film systems
Radiography is a widely used method whereby X-rays
are used to produce a radiograph of a specimen
showing any changes in materials. The usual
procedure to produce a radiograph is to have an X-ray
source on one side of the object to be examined and a
radiographic film on the other side. The X-rays travel
in straight lines from the source through the specimen
to the film. The parts of the film that have received
more radiation during exposure appear darker and so a
sharp image is formed on the film. After processing,
the film can be viewed on the lightbox. In HealthCare
X-ray film systems are used to examine the human
body and in Non-Destructive Testing to check the
thickness of materials and to detect defects, changes in
structure, assembly details, etc in objects
and constructions.
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