CTP--The Digital DRUPA

Who didn't take notice?

There was no doubt at DRUPA 1995; the vendors were betting big R&D dollars that the industry was ready to go filmless and CTP machines were going to make this move happen. Creo was an early leader, at the time, in thermal CTP, with roughly two dozen output devices installed.

What a difference from one DRUPA to the next. Two months from now, Creo, no longer tiny by any measuring stick, will enter DRUPA 2000 as the new owner of the digital prepress component of Scitex and a strategic joint-venture partner with Heidelberg Prepress, the owner of the former Linotype-Hell.