We've acquired a new business and have a customer whom supplies artwork every month pasted up on graph paper. The artwork is a collection of photos, inkjet prints, magazine photos and text. The project is monthly and is 20-36 pages. It finishes as an 8.5x11 Saddle Stitched booklet.
The way it's being done now is each pages is being shot on a press camera as film. Each 11x17 for usually has a double burn on each side. I think you all can see that this is not the most labor effective way to produce this.
It takes the guy producing film about 4 hours
When we tried to do this in Photoshop it took us about 30 minutes per 8.5x11
What I'm looking for is something like the AB_Dick press tek scan master system. I can scan the page as a TIff or PDF and the designate areas of the page as non-printing, halftone, screened etc. Then send the finished forms to the DTP unit that we are installing next week.
Retraining the customer is not an option. She's been doing things this way for 25 years and enjoys doing it.
They do pay a premium for the service but, I don't think they are getting the quality I want to give them.
Thanks in advance.
Ray
The way it's being done now is each pages is being shot on a press camera as film. Each 11x17 for usually has a double burn on each side. I think you all can see that this is not the most labor effective way to produce this.
It takes the guy producing film about 4 hours
When we tried to do this in Photoshop it took us about 30 minutes per 8.5x11
What I'm looking for is something like the AB_Dick press tek scan master system. I can scan the page as a TIff or PDF and the designate areas of the page as non-printing, halftone, screened etc. Then send the finished forms to the DTP unit that we are installing next week.
Retraining the customer is not an option. She's been doing things this way for 25 years and enjoys doing it.
They do pay a premium for the service but, I don't think they are getting the quality I want to give them.
Thanks in advance.
Ray
