NEWSPAPER CTP — MAKING THE LATE EDITION

Plates for all of these products are imaged on two ECRM Mako 4matic violet CTP machines. The company installed its first plate-setter in November of 2004 to transition from using film negatives output on two imagesetters.

“We quickly became dependent on it and started to increase the amount of daily newspaper business we were doing, so we soon realized we’d be in big trouble if the platesetter went down,” notes the company exec. “In March of 2005, we bought a duplicate unit just as a back-up, but instead we’ve end up running the machines in tandem to meet our demand for plates.”