New to the site? Post your intro here and be welcomed...

[halftone]

Hi, I'm Jon. Been in prepress for a short while. Not my prefered field but it's fun for now.
Nice to find this site, I look forward to all the help I may receive and the help may provide.

[mattbeals]

Hi, Matt Beals here. I've been involved with printing in one way or another since 1989. I started to got to a community college for a print production degree, then got hired by the college to teach. So everything I've learned started with my service bureau days in '93/'94. From there I've worked in a variety of environments, cold web, heatset, sheetfed doing production, preflight, customer service etc, network administration/design and a few others. In the last couple of years I have spoken at industry events, been interviewed a couple of time, involved in product developement and testing with a few different vendors. Now I spend my time hocking my wares as a consultant and trainer.

[prepress_brillance_43]

Hey Jon, welcome to the site!! come on in and kick your shoes off, make yourself comfortable, and like sparky say's share your knowledge. Im sure there's some to gain as well.

[David]

here's mine from when I joined in May 05:

Originally Posted by david_maberry

I'm new here and I thought this would get your attention! LOL!!! (I stole that subject line from another forum!)
Just thought I would introduce myself to everyone, my name is David and I work for a large printing co here in Dallas. Been here going on 22 years now (yeah, old fart jokes start here!) I've been in the biz for over thirty years now, the last ten or so (it's hard to remember exactly how long, too many margaritas) in electronic prepress. Before that I was in manual stripping/camera prepress. Waaaay before that did deep etch plates and silk screen. Hope to make some friends here and help if I can. I've been poking around here the last couple o' days and have laughed a few times at the designer bashing. I feeeeeeeel your pain!!

Have fun if you can, scotch if you can't!
David

[duck]

Hi, I'm duck and I'm a prepress worker. I've tried to get help, but I keep ending up back in front of the monitor.

At first it was just some simple pasting of type on artboards, but pretty soon I was messing with platemaking and proofing. Of course that only led to stripping, and eventualy to the hard stuff - digital prepress. I hit rock bottom in July when I came back to work at Glendale Printing - the place that laid me off 2 years ago.

I'm currently working on my 3 step plan to stop doing prepress completely. My self employment goal is not getting off the ground as fast as I'd hoped, but I'm sticking with it. It won't be easy, but someday I hope to be free of the bonds of prepress forever.

Thank you PPF for being there - as my crutch - during these difficult years. <sniff> I'm getting all choked up - sorry...

[darklings]

Hi, i'm Tom Maene, a pre-presser at a small company making greetingcards located in Belgium. I'm only in the "business" for 2years now, but eager to learn a lot. Even things I dont need to do at my work (related to pre-press) interests me. I finished school as a Graphical Designer - mostly DTP - i learned to use all the software - but nothing else pre-press related. Here at my work, i'm glad i got the chanse to learn all the rest, like the plates and stuff too. After i finished school i did another 2years of school where i studied Animation (disney-like) - but that didnt turn out to good - i had to stop school. I started to do Webdesign in eveningclasses but barely learned anything new there over those two years.

Right now i tried something different and am studieing musicschool (contrabass) at evenings.

Next to my pre-press daysjob the only thing i do is play bassguitar in a local rock band and spending the night on my comp surfing/playing and wasting my time on the internet.

www.bastom.com is my personal blog.

[Cornbread]

Hi ,my name I Dave Meyer and I'm A Prepres-aholic.

I am a third generation printer and have been in the industry for well over 20 years. I started making Plates and shooting camera. (ahh, the smell of a lith processor in the morning). I then spent 10 + years on the table (stripping) and have been in the Digital side since 1996. I have 8 + years Experience running prepress depts. The old way and the new. I am now back on a Machine and life is Good, (only three problems at a time now). The current company I work for and have been at for the Last 13 yrs. was doing 8 million in sales the first year I started and this year we will be over 90 million.

Has anyone ever seen some one in pre-press actually retire???? 8O 8O

[David]

Originally Posted by Cornbread

retire

what's that word?
it's not in my dictionary...
8O

[prepress_brillance_43]

HEY!!! WElcome darklings, to the greatest show on earth.... this is the ringling brothers barnum and baily circus.

well at least it seems that way most of the time. be sure and visit the monkeys over in jalan's corner and there are plenty of clowns to entertain you...(see david_maberry & slavetotheman... among others) :lol: :lol: enjoy!!

[David]