TPL has invested in a second CreoScitex VLF Trendsetter just six months after it installed its first CTP system.


Brian Clegg (left), digital workflow specialist for the Kidderminster-based magazine printer, said the benefits of the first system had been so apparent and profound that the company moved quickly for a second system.


And the efficiency of the system is such that the firm is now in a position to extend a price reduction back to publishers, he added, as an incentive for them to provide us with digital files instead of analogue. It really is a win-win situation.
TPL hopes to hit 80% CTP production by the end of this year. The Trendsetter images a 24-up plate in less than five minutes.


The firm has six Heidel-berg presses ranging from a Mini Web to the UKs first 48pp Heidelberg Sunday 4000 web.
It brought digital repro in-house two-and-a-half years ago with computer-to-film output and conventional platemaking, then bought the UKs first high-speed Creo Trendsetter VLF at Drupa (PrintWeek, 26 May 2000).


TPLs customers include Haymarket, the publisher of PrintWeek, Emap and Reed Business Information.


Story by Gordon Carson