Imagesetters Fill Important Niche

"We didn't go CTP a few years ago because the cost to get an aluminum platesetter at that time was prohibitive to us," explains Michael Schrader, printing and publishing manager for Mercury Marine, in Fond Du Lac, Wis. "To get the new equipment we estimated it would have cost us over $120,000 and I'm not exactly sure where we're going to be in three to five years; we might not even have offset. As it stands now, 40 percent of our work is DocuTech, and that number has been increasing steadily by 2 to 5 percent per year."