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[edgar]

After we purchased our first ctp, we worked with films so we had 2 areas: imagesetting and platemaking.

Working with ctp and the introduction of a digital workflow server, the guys who were in platemaking started to work with imposition programs, outputing jobs to proofers and ctp. They were converted to our digital output area. The guys who worked in imagesetting are working in the same way, their final stage is preparing final pdf files for sending to the digital output area for impose, proof and plating. They still do preflight, prepare files and also do some design works and have communication with clients.

By this way, the learning curve of our output operators was short because they don't have to go to the front end complexity, also they still play their old knowledgements.

Hope this help, and doesn't produce confussion.

I think everybody build his own workflow based on his real needs.