Driving The Digital Route

"The 100-base networks are about 6.5 times faster than the regular 10-base network, and the upgrade is fairly easy and inexpensive to do," Clipson explains. "If you look at a workflow, the digital prepress workflow had a lot of latency in it, meaning a point where your operator was waiting for the machine. With the advent of multi-output computers and this 100-base, it has vastly improved this latency in the workflow. People are not standing around as much, and that's had a huge impact on productivity. I think it cost us less than $10,000 to upgrade all our hubs and the workstations, and it was very much worthwhile."