Why Buy an Imagesetter?

If shopping for an imagesetter is on your agenda, keep in mind eight-up models are the hot tickets—as are high quality capstan machines incorporating support for Adobe's PostScript Level 2, Level 3 and PDF. There also still seems to be an interest in dry film imagesetters, the likes of ECRM's Mako Oasis, the DrySetter from Heidelberg Prepress, Scitex's Dolev 2dry and Screen's Mojave, but the dry film enthusiasm of last year seems to have faded a bit, in lieu of support for the wide-format fervor.