IMAGE CORPORATION -- Color At its Core

In the first quarter of 2000, Image Corporation installed its first non-digital output device, a six-color plus coater MAN Roland 306 PLV press with a 23.25x29˝ sheet size. However, Watson made a commitment from the very beginning not to produce any jobs from film on the press.

"We were putting together the most advanced technologies in prepress, press and postpress—including implementing CIP4—and they won't work with an analog workflow," he explains. "Also, since we are a film company, we certainly didn't want to use somebody else's film on our press. The press is a very sophisticated output device, but we are able to control its color reproduction through our prepress processes and systems."