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My name is Greg Bow and I thought it was about time I joined prepressforums after being a regular anonymous visitor to the site.
My working career starting as an apprentice compositor (thirty years ago) working in hot metal and having watched the industry change to where it is today.
I have certainly seen a lot of changes, some good and some not so good. The days of having to remember 100+ codes and how they worked when using dedicated typesetters certainly took some skill which has been lost when the layout programs came along.
Learnt Quark and Illustrator back in 1989 and have watched Quark go down hill ever since version 3.3. You think you get it bad from Quark in the US, you should have tried Quark in Australia. They would release an upgrade which you could buy in a mac magazine before we got the upgrade from Quark out here.
I work for a printing company on Gold Coast in Australia in the Art Department as a bureau operator. We don't have a workflow as such but we know how to get the job done. The last art director tried as best he could to get pdfs sent in by the clients and for the most part he was successful. Unfortunately, as other prepressforum members find out every day, not all pdfs are created with us in mind. That's where my many years of experience and troubleshooting comes in. Fonts, transparencies, rgb, no bleed, low resolution and whatever else won't make the pdf separate properly are day to day problems (just as it is with other members). I must admit that it makes the job both interesting and frustrating.
We have an ECRM rip 6.4 and 6.2 (and we use both because sometimes one will not rip the job, and the other will, just gotta get that job out!!), ECRM Mako4matic platesetter, 5 macs and 1 pc for emails.
Well that's the end of my spiel. Thanks.
Greg Bow
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