Driving The Digital Route

"We're at the point where our high-end prepress department has saved us a vast amount of time," says Clipson. "In fact, we've been reducing our staff through attrition. We lost six people out of 26, didn't replace them, and frankly the productivity gains have made up for it."

Not that it was easy in the beginning. Clipson says it took more than a year to smooth out the kinks in the system. He encourages all in-plant managers to use an ethernet network capable of 100-base data transfer speeds if they expect large amounts of data to transfer rapidly.