Imagesetters Fill Important Niche

"It's not always about quality, but about productivity too," explains Pendelton, citing the conversion of the offset-printed university telephone directory. "It used to be printed four-up, using the imagesetter to make the file, then it had to be cut and collated. If it was formatted to the DocuTech, the pages are already to size, and are collated on the machine, and it's just a matter of doing mechanical binding."