A Good, Long Run

When Heidelberg released PrimeSetter, its flagship line of imagesetters, at the last Drupa show, the company already had the future primacy of CTP in mind, says Tonkovich. The base design of the PrimeSetter was used in the manufacture of the ProSetter series—one of Heidelberg's platesetter lines.

"Because polyester-plate CTP—and now metal plates with violet CTP—have been bringing down the cost of going direct-to-plate, computer to plate is better suited to meet the needs of most in-plant managers," he says.