Desktop publishing’s latest tools: Bells and whistles can’t be new enough

Light tables, Rapido graph pens and T-squares are dinosaurs whose time in prepress production rooms hasn’t only come, it’s long gone.
Replacing it is software whose life span is about six months before a revision is created and marketed as newer and better.
The definition of old equipment is changing as well. Many owners of Northern Colorado printing companies have updated their image setters and printers in the last year and are able to handle just about any file a customer may bring in, but most admit they don’t have the latest equipment. Keeping up isn’t just difficult; it’s costly.