CTP FIELD REPORTS -- Set to Compete

"We've also cut out using film for 95 percent of our work in just four months, and the digital plates have only been running us about five percent more than our analog plates," continues the company exec. "We haven't been able to go 100 percent CTP because we still have clients ordering reprints."

Any printer financially able to make the move to CTP should take the plunge, Blasing believes. "I've been in the printing business for 35 years, and this is the most amazing piece of equipment I've purchased yet. It's not all that big of an investment, either. The price of the platesetter was almost the same as the first drum scanner I bought 12 years ago," he points out.