What a great website—this newbie is impressed!
Like Anthony, I too did not realize there "was a place to let you know that I exist."
My name is Jaime Zuniga and I come from a very dysfunctional printing family. I am the son of the son of the son of...a printer. The family printing business has seven employees and consists of, my father, mother, younger brother, wife, two unrelated press men and myself—there's no nepotism here?!?
Our press room has one five color Heidelberg GTO, a Ryobi 3302 and two AB Dick 8820/360 presses. Small press up to 14x20 sheet size. We also have a Heidelberg 10x15 Windmill platen letterpress—what a sweet machine it is!
I am the prepress department and defacto computer guy which includes estimating printing using PrintSmith. I am also one of the main customer contacts and sales rep. In a small shop you do it all, including occasionally cleaning the toilet. I have sixteen years of prepress experience cutting my teeth with a Lasermaster 1000. We have an ECRM imagestter running a Harlequin Rip, pretty basic. My favorite program is InDesign. And although we have Macs the heavy prepress work is done on the pentiums. We will be purchasing a metal CTP device this year and this forum will be very helpful. Like most prepress guys, I think I am one of the best, but this forum humbles me with its wealth of information and reminds me I know but just a bit of what there is to know—is that a known unkown? ahhh!!!
Finally and gratefully, I am a born again Christian. John 3:16, 2 Timothy 2:15.
