IMAGESETTING VS. PLATESETTING -- Setting the Pace

"Our industry has never adopted a standard for punch configurations. Even the same print shop may use different punch configurations and plates depending on the job. We work with 50 to 60 different printers, and we can't possibly support every punch configuration.

"We've looked at CTP in depth, and it just wasn't practical for our business. We'll probably do that type of analysis on a yearly basis, though. We will install CTP when clients demand it but, to date, we've never had a single one ask us to run CTP," Granata concludes.