ROI on CTP--To Buy or Not to Buy?

No Turning Back
H.C. Miller, a commercial printing operation in Milwaukee, jumped into computer-to-plate with both feet and didn't look back.

So say company execs who invested in CTP in June 1997 to help expand a product from its Green Bay facility to its Milwaukee plant.

Like most printers using conventional plates, H.C. Miller found stripping and imposing film to be a labor-intensive, time-consuming, registration-evasive process. General Manager Ron Demske says his prepress area had already made the transition to a digital workflow, so moving to CTP was "fairly easy after learning the ins and outs of working with electronic files."