COMPUTER-TO-FILM -- Flat Out the Best

For printing companies that have yet to transition to an imposed, digital workflow, Barnes agrees with the other imagesetter users that CTF probably still is a better first step on the learning curve.

Pre-CTP Workflow
The Seybert Nicholas Printing Group in New York City also used a large-format imagesetter—in its case, an Agfa Avantra 44S—to help it make the transition to an all-digital workflow. According to Jim Hennessey, prepress manager, the company spent a couple years outputting imposed film before adding a Galileo platesetter last year. This enabled the group's prepress operation to get its workflow in order, he explains, before making the investment in CTP.