IMAGESETTING VS. PLATESETTING -- Setting the Pace

If one buys into recent popular theories, Checkmate Graphics in Ellicott City, MD, should be dead by now—twice over, in fact, muses Mike Granata, production manager. "Trade shops are already supposed to be dead," he notes, "and I've been hearing for the last 10 years that the end of film was coming. I still don't see the end in sight. We're a small company (four employees), but we are profitable.