Dots Do It Right

Waiting for the right time

Until January 2009, CSW (Ludlow, Mass.) followed these developments closely and conducted research into several digital platemaking technologies, but held off from committing to invest in any one system.

"Our highly diversified clientele is about 50 percent corrugated, 45 percent wide- and narrow-web, and 5 percent other," explains Marek Skrzynski, director of graphics, R&D. "For us to have completed the back end of our digital workflow before the right technology became available would have meant that half of our business would remain unsatisfied. It was on that –basis that we were unwilling to make an early investment."