CTP FIELD REPORTS -- Set to Compete

Kirkwood's last platesetter still had a lot of life left in it, but several issue made it ripe for replacement, the prepress director says. "For one, it was a fully automatic device that had trouble keeping the plates perfectly straight," he explains. "We installed a new press about a year ago that has plate autoloaders on it. Its tolerance for plates being imaged crookedly is extremely small. We'd get plates that were 1⁄16˝ out and that was too much."