Pick Your 'Setter

Hal Cypert: We decided to go with the CTP over an imagesetter because of the reduction of steps in our process. Instead of outputting to paper or film we go straight to plate and avoid film assembly and the making of metal plates.

Until we purchased the CTP we would output copy using our plain paper printer and either make a negative (we made negs on jobs that had screens or tight registration) or a polyester plate using our platemaker if it was straight text copy. We have never owned an imagesetter.