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As an owner, McClafferty says he was most concerned about how well the actual switchover would go. "We had to basically go conventional again while we were doing the install," he notes.

The old system had to be taken out first, Fecondo explains. "We plated up a day or so worth of work in advance. Then on that Monday morning, we took the old system out and by the afternoon we had the new system installed. By the start of the second shift on Tuesday we had a live job come off the system," the plant manager says. "The testing we previously did with the plate was a big help. It showed we didn't have to make any chemistry changes in the pressroom."