Apparatus for delivering printing plates to an external drum imaging system

摘要

The present invention provides an apparatus for delivering a printing plate (18) to an imaging system (10), such as an external drum platesetter (16). The apparatus includes a plate traversing table (102) for displacing a printing plate (18) into a staging position, and a plate angling table (104), nested within the plate traversing table (102), for rotating the printing plate (18) between the staging position and a loading position.