Making Digital Magic

Ten years ago companies like Scitex, Linotype-Hell, Dianippon Screen, and Agfa raced to fill the need for high-performance electronic prepress systems that could accept a DTP file and make it ready for digital film output. But they too built their products around the needs of the much larger, and presumably more profitable, commercial printing industry. Pioneering packaging prepress operators had to significantly stretch the limits of the available tools to account for the nuances of packaging printing.