Why Buy an Imagesetter?

Why? Quite simply, while direct-to technologies are rapidly increasing in popularity and implementation, there are and will continue to be significant numbers of commercial printing operations for which CTP and direct-to-press are not yet cost-effective, realistic options. Despite all the hoopla about the dissolution of film in commercial printing, there is still a healthy number of printers that rely on film imagesetters—and plan to remain loyal to these output devices for the next several years.