Hamilton--Going Digital - No Pain, No Gain

Stripping is a perfect example of leveraging existing expertise to move in an entirely new direction. A good stripper knows exactly why the pages need to be stripped head-to-head or the amount of shingling required to bind six eight-page signatures on the saddlestitcher. This is a far more important skill, initially, than the ability to plug pages into an imposition template. As time goes on, strippers need to develop the computer skills, so they can understand more arcane data handling and, more important, the troubleshooting that is required in any digital workflow.