Polyester Plates: The Short-run Solution

The CTP Scene

I looked into all the lower-end metal platemakers. Since all I had was a 15x18? press, there was a wide selection of metal platemakers to choose from—but I thought they were too expensive, considering I was only publishing three or four books a year.

I looked for other alternatives….and that was when I discovered polyester plates. They were cheap, supposedly held the image for 10,000 impressions (far more than I would ever need to print), and all I needed to create a plate was a page layout program and a large-format laser printer.