DFE--On PDF Beta Duty

Before its 1998 move to thermal CTP, LCP had found success using an eight-up imagesetter. "Our eight-up imagesetter was a great piece of equipment," explains LCP's Kathy Funk, assistant prepress supervisor. "However, bottlenecks in the workflow did hit—being film-based we were using analog proofing, therefore, all jobs, whether they were at the proof or plate stage, had to have films run."