Ace Scores New Color Gear

The Screen CTP system is a big change for the in-plant, allowing it to go directly from computer to metal plates. Before the installation, Ace averaged $50,000 to $60,000 a year in outside film costs.

"We were having all of our film done on the outside and burning our plates in-house," Salinas says. Proofs were printed outside, as well. Now, the in-plant goes right from digital files to proofs and plates.