The Dish on Plates

While Zeinert believes digital platemaking is close to achieving widespread adoption, Jim Kadlec, president of Advanced Prepress Graphics, disagrees. Kadlec believes digital plates will dominate in the future, but not for at least another 10 years. "Twenty years ago IBM laughed at Bill Gates when he mentioned every home and office with its own computer. Look at them now—he was right. I think it is going to be the same with digital plates." Kadlec maintains the amount of time digital platemaking saves must justify the effort before usage can hit majority levels.