Making Digital Magic

Systems designed especially for packaging applications have been available for the last several years. Traditional commercial prepress vendors have expanded the tool sets of their publishing systems. As well, newer vendors, (like Barco Graphics and PCC Artwork Systems) started from scratch to create industrial-strength electronic packaging environments. These systems have evolved to where they can trap a complex six- or seven-color folding carton in forty minutes versus the fourteen hours it may take using a DTP program.