Scratch The Film. Go Straight To Plate

"The auto-load system is very good for time," notes Brouse. "And it's also very reliable. It's only gone down hard twice. But those weren't really major problems."

He says the shop chose a Creo platesetter for its flexible filing system.

"You work with pre-RIPed files. You can archive a job and bring the file up without having to RIP it again," he explains. Altogether, Brouse says prepress time has dropped from an hour to 15 minutes for a typical job.