Editor's Note Sweepin' Down The Plain

Initially the shop got a Purup-Eskofot (now Esko-Graphics) DPX Genesis platesetter, and then upgraded to a DotMate 7500CtP for larger-format jobs. The in-plant uses polyester plates 99 percent of the time, even on the Heidelberg, and Brad reports no problems with this setup.

I couldn't help but wonder, as I drove through the rain to my next in-plant meeting, whether other in-plants, if they were to open today for the first time, would even bother with film. Are those in-plants without CTP—70 percent by our research—merely clinging to film because it's familiar to them? Are their arguments against going direct-to-plate just excuses to maintain the status quo?