IMAGESETTING VS. PLATESETTING -- Setting the Pace

Wild Levels of Efficiency

The shop previously output smaller format film that had to be stripped together prior to being used to expose conventional metal plates. "The two 74s created workflow efficiencies beyond our wildest expectations," Losure reveals. "We have excess capacity to sell to the trade and can do so at aggressive rates because of the efficiency of a digital workflow. Our costs are running about 50 percent less than what we had been spending for film and metal plates."