Making Digital Magic

But for the packaging printer who wants to bring prepress in-house via a different route than Facilities Management, the trapping issue remains one of the most important aspects of the prepress digital workflow.

Why so difficult?

Packaging graphic designers generally create new layouts using Macintosh or Windows-based Desk Top Publishing (DTP) software programs such as Illustrator, Freehand, Corel Draw, or Quark. These programs were originally developed for broad use by artists and content providers in the commercial printing and publishing markets. They were, and still are, attractively intuitive, but not necessarily functional for either packaging design or prepress production.