[WinMac] Re: WinMac Digest #190 - 01/08/99

Matt Shannon(mshannon[at]centuryinter.net)
Sat, 9 Jan 1999 10:56:24 -0600

>Subject: Re: [WinMac] Graphic production, which is the better platform?
>From: Liam Helmer <liamh@axion.net>
>Date: Thu, 7 Jan 99 18:18:08 -0800
>
>
>>The people who put out our newsletter for our company are using Macs
>>to do all the design and pre-press stuff. Our company is moving
>>towards being PCs. The question is, should the artists switch to PCs
>>or keep using their Macs? I know some of this is a matter of
>>preference but I need some hard facts on the pros and cons of each for
>>this kind of work. Does anyone know of any studies or where I can find
>>more info? Please let me know. Thanks.

I work for the Marketing department of a printing company. Not long ago
we were looking at getting a lot of new prepress equipment (new
imagesetter, RIP, proofers, etc...) We were going to need to upgrade our
Macs within another year or so and it was decided to go ahead and upgrade
those at the same time as the equipment purchase. The IS manager casually
brought up the question of replacing those 5 macs with PC's. The reaction
from the prepress department was incredible. Everyone of them said they'd
quit if they had to switch to PC's, including the manager. This was an
emotional reaction and I came up with more factual reason's for them not
to switch to PC's.

1) Files received from outside sources come from who knows what! Macs are
better equipped to deal with Windows app version files than the other way
around.

2) They'd have to learn a whole new OS and quickly, which would put more
of a strain on IS and add more cost to the company.

3) We would have possibly had to hire all new prepress department.

4) PostScript output from a Mac is generally much more reliable than PC's.

5) Color correction is built into the MacOS in the form of ColorSync.
This is not the case on the PC. Color correction on the PC is different
for each and every application.

6) The PC's we'd have to get were more expensive than the Mac's we'd have
to get.

So basically it cost us much less to stay with Macs than switch to PC's.

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