COMPUTER-TO-FILM -- Flat Out the Best

Capital Spectrum elected to be a beta site for the Heidelberg Primesetter 102 imagesetter, which Paul Barnes, vice president of production, says he released into full production in April of 2000.

The company was already using a Heidelberg SignaStation to output imposed forms on its older, large-format 3030 film recorders, but Barnes says the new imagesetter is three times as fast and facilitates platemaking by outputting punched film. This has enabled the prepress operation to increase the volume of imposed film it sells.