Driving The Digital Route

In the meantime, many staff members are enrolled in courses outlining the latest in digital workflow techniques. Devis says the goal of trying to stay one step ahead of customer needs is definitely being met.

"For certain jobs we've definitely saved time, and with other jobs you could probably pop the plate and throw it on the press quicker," he says earnestly. "We spent probably $40,000 for our computer-to-plate technology, and we're not recovering that in the prepress area in the next couple of years. But what we are doing is educating our staff to be better prepared for the new technologies as they come in. So there's a training element there where people are becoming more up to speed, and that's definitely got a dollar value as well."