Plotting Along

For a technology that could be called mature, established, or even proven, the imagesetter is not without its challenges.

Agfa's Kushnieruk relates the most tenacious imagesetting issues reside in network design. "A printer formerly using a smaller imagesetter and stripping up work that makes the switch to a larger format imagesetter will have to reorganize the department's infrastructure to handle larger files and additional colors that typically accompany such an upgrade," he says. New network needs might include digital archiving, additional server space, improved back-up mechanisms, and/or faster retrieval mechanisms.