Allied Printing--Crowning Customers

The company continues to flourish, largely due to its ownership's willingness to invest and reinvest in new technologies. Over the last 15 years, Allied Printing has welcomed the opportunity to be the alpha or beta sites for technology manufacturers such as Hell, Scitex, Gerber, Agfa and Apple, among others. Allied owns one of the biggest server configurations under one roof, with two SGI Octane 2000 servers with 28 CPUs and 14GB of RAM. The first mainstream sector installation of Fiber Channel Raid occurred here, and the ATM Fiber Network Imprint Publishing debuted at Allied, as well. According to Kaufman, Allied Printing went thermal computer-to-plate with a Gerber (now BARCO) system before DRUPA 1995 and, at the start of this year, the second generation of Agfa Galileo thermal platesetting devices were installed.