Chelsea-based repro house Colourpath has invested 300,000 in digital workflow.


It has bought a Heidelberg Prinergy PDF workflow, OneVision Asura and Solvero PDF and PostScript PDF pre-flighting and editing software and a Xerox DocuColor 2060 for digital proofing.


"The only things I want to output are PDFs and digital proofs," said managing director Mark Edgley.


He described Prinergy as "the Rolls-Royce of PDF workflow and very printer friendly" due to its ability to handle trapping and single pages.


The DocuColor 2060 is to provide very quick turnaround of colour proofs.


"I thought it was a sledgehammer to crack a nut," said Edgley. "But we needed a sledgehammer to crack this nut and got a short-run colour machine to boot."


The DocuColor, supplied by reseller RES and driven by an EFI Fiery RIP, is being colour managed by PraxiSoft software, which along with calibration three times a day is key to its suitability for colour proofing.


Colourpath has also invested in an online asset management system, 4yourimage.com, which it hopes to launch next month.


Edgley bought out partner Charles Stirrup at the end of last year and closed the firms Soho site. All 52 staff are now based at its Chelsea Wharf office.


Story by Barney Cox