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Everyone's list will contain a few of the same items. But since packaging jobs vary widely, a prepress system must be able to handle a wide variety of functions with a high degree of diversity. A system good at handling one or two different types of jobs isn't versatile enough.

In addition, prepress systems designed originally, or exclusively, for offset may be under-powered for flexo or other technologies in such crucial areas as sophisticated trapping, versatile, easy-to-use step-and-repeat, and support for multiple inks (four+).