AJ IMAGES--All in the Family

"It was only supposed to be a $15,000 purchase, not $2.5 million!" Janet exclaims.

Two weeks after delivery, AJ Images was performing 80 to 90 percent of its jobs on the digital equipment. By the third week, they were fully CTP and had shut down their imagesetters.

"I was very adamant about getting into this and doing it immediately," Arnold states. "With that kind of investment, my personal opinion is that it should start paying for itself from day one. I'm not going to experiment and play games. Get everything running correctly right at the beginning and utilize it."