Westland Printers--Improved Savings With Digital Proofing

Before the digital proofing system was in place, the prepress department would do a scan, make a set of films of all the images, and proof them on conventional analog proofing material.

"The process meant running films, then stripping them into position to make a proof," Snyder recalls, noting that the process moved from the electronic prepress department to stripping and proofing departments. "The films left our department for proofing. When we got them back, we'd sort them out, cut them up and send them back to the customer." That process could run between one and two days, he points out.