Direct To Press

"We're certainly capable of doing next-day turnaround," he remarks. "The DI allows us to do that real quick because you eliminate the film output process, and the blueline stage, and the stripping, and the platemaking."

Virtually every printer that has taken the plunge into direct imaging offset technology tells the same story of faster makereadies, better registration, quick job changeovers and lower costs. Printers with a frequent need for four-color jobs between 500 and 5,000 runs find DI to be a great fit.