The Pros Of CTP

Marc Johnson, Presstek:

In-plants that are already outputting imposed "plate-ready" film from their drum imagesetters will find moving to CTP to be very easy; it's a simple change of the output engine. Most workflows today are capable of outputting in an industry-standard, one-bit TIFF file format.

For operations that are outputting to a smaller filmsetter, or to RC-paper, the workflow enhancements required are for digital imposition and digital proofing.