Typecraft Wood & Jones has always set the pace in the printing
industry and they did it again several years ago by becoming the
first sheet-fed lithographer in Los Angeles County to have fully
integrated the new CREO Trendsetter Computer-to-Plate system
into their electronic prepress department.
This system plays the starring role in the company’s overall “Digital
Workflow System” which allows for a complete electronic printing
process, from the point when the graphic designer or client
contacts Typecraft Wood & Jones regarding a quote, all the way
to when the final product is delivered.
In fact, Typecraft, Inc. received the Computerworld Smithsonian
Award for its Computer-to-Plate printing system and it will become
part of the Permanent Research Collection on Information
Technology at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American
History.
What does the Computer-to-Plate system mean for the graphic
designer or print buyer? It means direct creation of printing plates
from a designer’s computer files, eliminating the time, expense,
image digression and polluting chemistry of film-based plate-
making, and producing a far superior printed image. A project
three years ago which would have taken a couple of weeks of
intensive production, can now be brought to the same stage of
completion in less than a day.
Bottom line. This new technology provides enormous benefits to
Typecraft Wood & Jones’ clients, in terms of their working
schedules and production deadlines.
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