The Quad CTP Squad

"The truth is, when we started three years ago, there were problems," remembers Tom Frankow-ski, vice president of imaging. "There were things that went wrong. This process is not an evolutionary change; it's revolutionary."

The revolution began in the front end. Frankowski notes that the Creo platesetters used a Harlequin RIP, while the proofing devices used an Adobe RIP. This created some compatibility problems. So Quad came up with a workflow using a variety of hardware and software that cleaned PostScript files prior to proofing and platemaking, creating files that could only be processed one way.