off-site platemaker...

[prepress_brillance_43]

...that's right. I have an "off-site" platemaker. We felt that complicating my tasks by involving another shop in order to make my plates was an efficient way to work, I mean shit all you got to do is hit print. So on top of all the prepress I have to do, once I get an approval from customer I have to then send my files via ftp to a guy around the corner, who then RIPS my files to his Palladio. :roll: What the fuck?

Luckily it is only for two more weeks until my screen platerite gets here.

"ain't life grand?"

[hotmetal]

yeah, well, this is what we did for a few months while waiting for our platemaker to arrive. This was back before DVDs (yes!) were in regular use, and we were sending the vendor 1 bit tiffs for 64 inch plates, which can run to 2GB, too big for CDs (and they don't compress any smaller), so we went out and bought a bunch of 2GB Jaz drives and a whole shitload of cartridges, which are all now sitting on a shelf around here somewhere...

[prepress_brillance_43]

Yikes. I am thankful for FTP. Driving 5 minutes to get plates sucks. Having to coordinate my schedule to his to get plates sucks. Glad to hear that I'm not the only one to deal with such a setup.



"know what your selling's, what ya bought..."