Conversation Between Printservedigital and boltonranger

Hello PSD; I'm grateful to you responding to my query, I'm in a spot here. We are a small Print shop in Manchester CT USA. It is a family run business.
Yes, we are listening to someone who wants to sell us plates. Boss feels he can dispense with film and film chemistry altogether and save money. That is what this is about.
I fear that this will make my workload much more as right now we have a stripper and stripping / platemaking comes after my department. Now it will be my responsibility. I run pdfs and native files through my 10 year old mac work stations to my Agfa Viper Rip circa 1995 (bought new)

We do have a new 4880 epson with the colorburst rip bundle but we have NO calibration ability / densitometry or photospectometry.

It is discouraging.

Thank you for your answers - they are excellent and to the point.
Though I fear they will fall on deaf ears.
Best regards, -john

Are you based in Bolton ? England?

I'm a qualified Agfa engineer having worked on Green and Violet laser CTP.
Prepress specialist.