SCREENING SYSTEMS -- Spotting an Opportunity

Even with the significant improvements to Pantone's Hexware software for doing color conversions, prepress is still a little more involved, he concedes. "That is really where additional costs can be incurred. There's more time involved in doing the separations," Budd says. "We find it's not much more expensive than printing any six-color job once it hits the press. The inks only cost slightly more."