![]() "A lot has to do with what you have in your budget to spend on the equipment. Several of the interviewees had some words of advice for printers who are considering the move to CTP. And what did he do with that space? Added mailing services in order to open up a whole new profit center. We did a complete conversion and we picked up a whole bunch of space," he relates. When we brought that in, we were able to clear out all that prepress equipment. "We had a huge room with all our prepress equipment in it. They have the skill to go in there and get what they need."Īnother big benefit to Kishter's company was the small footprint of his CTP equipment. If somebody's out or working on a big project, we don't have our pressmen waiting around for plates to get the job on the press. "So we got all our pressmen involved in learning about creating templates learning about how to output the plates for themselves. We didn't want to have them dependent on our prepress people to put out the plates," he points out. ![]() ![]() "When we went to computer-to-plate, we really had to get our pressmen involved in that process. It had a great impact, economically and time-wise." "There are not many pieces of equipment you can say that about, but for our company, it was one of the best investments we've made. "Our ROI was immediate from the day it was installed," observes Victor Kishter. Across the board, every printer interviewed for this article was quick to point out that they have received outstanding service and support from their respective equipment manufacturers. He initially had some concerns about the change of hands, but says there was no reason to worry. Kishter bought his equipment, which was originally sold by RIPit, just as that company was being bought by Xanté. It went from a half day process to minutes." So getting a job from file to press was cut more than half. "It saved us hours a day in our prepress. "The impact was immediate," states Victor Kishter, owner of Corridor Printing, Columbia, MD, of his Xanté Speedsetter. Here are a few cut and paste comments from a recent Quick Printing story on CTP. Feedback from recent Quick Printing Magazine article
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