Opening New Doors

As anyone who has attended a printing trade show in the past five years can tell you, current prepress innovation has centered on computer-to-plate technology. Unquestionably, CTP systems for offset, flexo, and gravure have redefined the outer limits of reproducible package decoration and process automation. But, as technical consultant Nancy Murray of Barco Graphics, one of the first prepress vendors to develop packaging-exclusive applications, recently reminded me, "There is an entire generation of sophisticated support features incorporated into today's electronic prepress systems." Those features include