Shedding 
A ‘Negative’ Attitude

Take the State of Colorado's Division of Central Services, Integrated Document Solutions (IDS) in-plant. For years, the Denver-based shop had relied on a traditional prepress plate-making system—masking the plates and using a burner. But the times, they were a-changing. Colorado, like the rest of the country, was pushing for greener, environmentally friendly sensibilities in its manufacturing activities. The shop needed to go green and eliminate prepress and postpress chemicals, and with the pending acquisition of a two-color press, IDS was at a crossroads.