Ball State Adds CTP, Four-color Press

"Unless we had a four-color press they wouldn't do four-color work with us any more," Johnson says. "They wanted to check press proofs."

Since that customer also wanted to do variable data printing, Johnson first looked into the Kodak NexPress and Xerox iGen3.

"But I could not get that customer to commit to using that NexPress or an iGen for their medium-run four-color work," he says. So his shop installed a Konica Minolta 8050 in August to handle the variable data work. Now the new Printmaster will be able to handle the rest.