The Total Package

It is not that prepress operators are resisting the notion of exchanging color files that will work reliably. Unfortunately, exchanging film is more or less useless, or at best, very cumbersome, as we move toward CTP. Let's face it, outputting film at one location and forcing the receiver to scan film back into data so they can plot it on a CTP device is akin to forcing consumers to squeeze toothpaste out of the tube at the store and try and get it back into another tube at home.