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08-28-2007, 12:19 PM
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Cute.. Yea right. this is what you see in the mirror when you are dreamin'
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08-28-2007, 03:17 PM
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Glad to have you aboard artchick. Head for the Lounge, the Forum that interests you most, or just hang around, someone here will be willing and able to help. If you can help us, that's even better!
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08-29-2007, 08:36 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2007
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HI, I'm new here... sort of (repeat in correct place)
..............Updated version in the right thread!
I've been reading, but never posted (Yes, a lurker). I'm a Typesetter at the end of his run. I took over a very small business in Kansas City last fall. We started out in 1981 with Editwriters (still have a manual and a filmstrip, wish I had a 8086 chip from one). Had some success, but my partners took the cash assets out and we fell behind the curve. Now I'm just hanging in (I'm in my late 50s). Still run some film for the diehard commercial printers who are my clients.
I began in the industry in 1974. My sister was dating a lithographer, making good money sooo... I went to the local employment service, asked how to get into lithography. They sent me to a union, I signed up and started work. It was 2 weeks before (ignorant, huh) I realized I wasn't in lithography, but TYPOGRAPHY. I'd joined the International Typography Union (ITU). Yep, hot metal typesetting. I trained on linotypes and learned makeup and lockup. Wow have things changed!
My skills are behind the curve too. Have used Quark since 2.2 as my primary layout program. Up to 7.0 now... also have CS3. Have never worked in a major prepress shop, just some newspaper and agency freelance work in the 90s.
PPF is a great look into the modern prepress world and I enjoy the time I spend here.
Thanks to you all.
Chuck
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08-29-2007, 10:33 AM
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Hot Metal and ITU, that's going back some! ah, yes, my happy days as a camera operator and paste up artist  Good to have you with us Chuck |
09-04-2007, 11:22 AM
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Join Date: May 2006
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Hey, WOW! I've been looking for a place like this for YEARS!
My name's Houston (pronounced Youston south of the Red River), and I'm a prepress tech in Richmond, VA. I'm SO HAPPY to have found a place where I can get my questions answered, insert my .02, and ...
(looks around at empty building ...)
Damn, not again ....
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09-04-2007, 11:50 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: on the side of a mountain on my K2 deck.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by youston
Hey, WOW! I've been looking for a place like this for YEARS!
My name's Houston (pronounced Youston south of the Red River), and I'm a prepress tech in Richmond, VA. I'm SO HAPPY to have found a place where I can get my questions answered, insert my .02, and ...
(looks around at empty building ...)
Damn, not again ....
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hahaha... nice. funny enough for me to log back in, shank your pants down and run, leaving you in said alone building again alone, but this time with your pants at your ankles...  see your PM. |
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