Computer-to-Plate — Digital Plate Developments

“We definitely have exceeded 100,000 impressions with these plates,” reports Jared Heller, prepress specialist. “We are producing almost 20,000 plates a year, and did more than that last year. These plates provide good contrast for checking against our comp proofs.”

Swanson explains that the shop makes plates ahead of when they’ll be needed to print a job and takes time to proof them so the press operator can be confident the job is ready to run. For that reason, he doesn’t see a compelling need at Stelter for the current “processless” technology.