CTP Troubleshooting--Covering All Bases

"Program issues were the least of our worries," he says, "until the program we tried to use grounded us down to a halt. We weren't expecting that."

In this case, troubleshooting meant trying other programs, and Osborne claims the answer came from an unlikely place: the Mac. By using programs like Quark and PageMaker, and treating the CTP system as a printer, Print Direct was "able to go straight-to-plate with no problems," Osborne says.