The cornerstone of our digital prepress technology has been our investment in CTP (Computer To Plate) technology. Our Xcalibur VLF Computer-To-Plate Platesetter is linked to one of the most advanced and efficient workflows available today. Our supporting technologies help us to reduce waste in both labor and materials, reduce the risk of errors and streamline the operation, allowing us to pass on the savings in both time and cost to our clients.

Ripping (Raster Image Processing) your file is the process of taking your page layout document from Quark, Pagemaker or InDesign, etc. and converting it to a language that our high resolution imaging equipment can understand. Ripping is a very complex process where file creation mistakes usually show up. However, once your file is ripped, it is locked and essentially not editable without returning to the layout application. District Creative Printing's philosophy is to rip the files once and output them to many devices. In that spirit, we have configured all of our prepress equipment, from the most basic proofing device, to our computer-to-plate imagers so they all use the same ripped file. This process greatly reduces the time spent handling your job and the chance for errors to occur by constantly re-ripping the file.