From Clean Slate to Direct-to-plate

Similarly, they credit the person they recruited to manage the new department and system with its success. McCord hired Tonni Shaw, an electronic prepress veteran who had already mastered four-page workflows on an Agfa SelectSet 7000. "We let her run a company within the company," Ashlock confides.

In building up the new department, Shaw made sure the infra-structure would support the huge volumes of data that are inherent in fully digital imposed workflows. In addition to multiple Power Mac workstations to prep pages and flats, McCord installed a Digital Alpha 2500 file server connected to a 25GB RAID. For high-resolution imaging, it uses a Fuji-Crosfield 6250 drum scanner. All equipment is networked via Fast Ethernet (100Base-T) using three NuSwitch hubs to isolate heavy traffic.