PDF Workflows

"Up until 1998, we were a completely conventional, full-service commercial printer, but we knew we needed to go computer-to-plate. And, more than that, we knew the way we wanted to go CTP was with a PDF workflow," Bockman reports.

According to Bockman, Photo Comp selected the Apogee workflow chiefly because of the Apogee Pilot, which allows Photo Comp to operate its automated Galileo running daylight-loaded Lithostar plates as a fully integrated system. PDF, Bockman notes, was the only bridge Photo Comp wanted to traverse to establish its new CTP environment.