In-plants Rave About Computer-to-plate

"We needed to get things to the press quicker," says Don Davis, associate director. "Film, match prints and bluelines were just too costly in time and money to do."

The university agreed and gave the green light to fund CTP. Being a state institution, LSU's Graphic Services had to put the CTP system out to bid. Graphic Services wrote the bid specifications in a way that would offer the operation capabilities it sought, including CTP and digital proofing at high and low resolutions.