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Hi, I'm Laura, and I just joined up today. I work at a small printshop in central Illinois. I was directed here by my co-worker/husband, who is also a prepress person. In the same department, no less! I do both graphic design and prepress work, so I see both sides of the equation. I'd like to think it helps me to prepare better files, especially since I am the prepress person handling my own designs.
I have been working at the same company for 15 years (straight out of college), and my primary duties are to design two different monthly magazines?with deadlines a week apart. (Sleep is optional during deadline week!)
I also help to handle the prepress side for several weekly newspapers we print here. I prefer Macs, but I also have a PC sitting beside my Mac to use as needed. We use an Agfa Apogee workflow here, which is miles ahead of the old Lino 300 I first learned on in the early 90s. We're not doing CTP yet, but hope to get there in a few years. Many of our current customers still send in pasteups, so we keep our old camera busy. Luckily more of them are switching to sending in PDF files instead, so we're dragging them into the 21st century a little at a time.
I'm looking forward to learning lots of helpful information here!
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