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Kirkwood opted to stick with the manual feed configuration for its new platesetters. "People can get hung up on automation and a lot of little features that don't need to be there," Monfette says. "Simplicity is a positive these days with all the work being on such a tight turnaround. You have to look at what can take the machine down. We left off the online punches for that reason. If you have to wait 24 hours for a service call on a relatively simple thing like that, it's a real killer. We installed two units for redundancy."