Poor Man's CTP Rich in Benefits

Jobs that contained halftones, screens and/or tight two-color registration required film, which we would outsource. Conventional stripping of these negatives would follow, and we would burn negative-acting plates in-house on a small NuArc plate burner.

Then one day we were informed by our supplier that diffusion transfer plates and chemicals were becoming scarce and that a time would soon come when they were simply obsolete. Not only were we forced to find an alternative method of producing plates in-house but the clock was ticking.