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> Subject: [WinMac] Re: To convert Mac->Windows, should I bother?
> Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 09:17:10 -0500
> From: Leonard Rosenthol <leonardr@lazerware.com>
> To: winmac@iffy.com
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> At 4:11 PM -0500 1/3/01, Jennifer Rose wrote:
> >That depends upon which printshop you use. Many local presses still
> >aren't set up to accept PDF files for making plates.
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> Then I wouldn't work with those shops since they are already
> out of date, and just getting more so every day. Why support them if
> they aren't going to support you and the "modern age"?
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> >And although the current versions of these applications create
> >cross-platform files, many printers still prefer to view the files on
> >the same platform on which they were created
>
> Which makes a lot of sense if you going to work with original
> documents, and is also another reason to NOT work with these people
> if they can't take PDF. PDF avoids ALL of the problems that you site
> when working from originals!
>
> Leonard
> --
Weeelll...that sounds like something I would certainly do if I lived in
a metropolitan area with high-tech printing facilities within driving
distance. Out in the countryside you have fewer choices. Small printers
in remote rural areas cannot afford the expense of upgrading all their
equipment and software at once.
All the problems that I cited are really no big deal when you can have a
friendly, communicative relationship with a local printer. Sometimes a
local printer will advise us on paper, taking us to his storage area to
let us compare, look, and feel the paper we asked for against stock that
he feels would show off our design better. Sometimes we get advice on
layout, inks or colors. We don't have to take that advice, but we have
access to decades of experience in making our decisions. All with a
short visit to a nearby press. And our work has won national awards.
We do send large jobs out on bid and are tickled when file delivery is
made easier for us by a larger printing firm. Meanwhile, we get to live
smack in the middle of one of the most beautiful places on earth. Go to
Virginia and drive down U.S. Highway 23 South over Powell Valley. You'll
see why it doesn't matter if our local printer can take a PDF file.
Sometimes it depends on your point of view whether you are giving up
something or getting something.
--
Jennifer Rose
http://www.me.cc.va.us/
Public Relations Practitioner II
Mountain Empire Community College
P.O. Drawer 700
Highway 23 South
Big Stone Gap, VA 24219
540-523-2400, ext. 342
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