Laser-Scan OPC-B video

When we vacated Carlstadt lab sometime ago, a few video tapes were rescued from a garbage pile.      I am happy to have saved historic Laser-Scan video.        As you may recall Polychrome received InterTech '85 award for the Laser-Scan technology.        This was based on the OPC-B plate (will explain in detail later) and was used at several Wall Street Journal plan.        They composed newspaper in their South Brunswick office, beamed up the information to satellite around 5pm and their printing plants strategically placed throughout the nation received the latest electronic page feed and then imaged on our OPC-B printing plate.       This eliminated (according to the engineers we spoke then) about 20 film and platemaking workers replaced by a few electrical engineers who manned the sophisticated satellite-to-printing plate making equipment.          As the video indicates towards the end this was the time when Apple Computer announced the laser printer which revolutionized the PC world.       Today, majority of printing plates are made using laser direct platemaking system.       We could say we were there showing the way in early 1980 where the industry was going.   Three names come to my mind who helped get this award, Jay Patel who literally lived in the Wall Street Journal plant to make this work, Simon Chu who was behind the making of this video and application for the award and Bill Palafox who prepared all the documentation to gain support.