CTP Experiences--Digital Devotees

Rumer mentions another wrinkle that has largely been ironed out at this point. He says that when Acme first switched to CTP, it sometimes found it difficult to match the work done by other printers not using CTP. "We couldn't muddy our stuff up enough to match theirs," he recalls. So, when customers wanted Acme to print part of a job and marry the new portion with printing done by other printers, the print quality differences were sometimes noticeable. That problem has pretty much disappeared at this point as most of Acme's customers have used up their pre-printed materials and let Acme print the entire job.