Dorset Council takes on full-colour production

Dorset County Councils printing department has moved to full-colour production with a new Ryobi 524HXX and Esko-Graphics polyester platesetter, both supplied by Apex Digital Graphics.

Manager Mike Bennett (pictured) said the council had been looking to replace its old two-colour press but had opted for the four-colour B3 landscape-format Ryobi to enable it to keep more jobs in-house, reducing outwork costs.

It had also suffered from a constant backlog in platemaking when it was using an imagesetter, so the DPX platesetter has speeded up pre-press.