Ditial Prepress--Beta Watch!

Frank Shaffer, president of the Souhegan Color component of Eastern Rainbow, had supervised beta work on the Agfa T-5000 scanner, as well as beta work on Polaroid's PolaProof digital halftone proofer. Shaffer had been investigating moving the printing operation to CTP for more than three years.

Economy. That was the biggest obstacle for Souhegan Color regarding a move to CTP. How could a $4 million printing operation cost-justify a major thermal CTP investment, costing more than one-eighth of the company's annual sales? Souhegan Color simply didn't have the run lengths to support, nor the dollars to acquire, a thermal CTP device.