Recent content by Point918

Use whatever platform works for you and your processes. I rarely see designers using PC's unless they are in a large corporate environment. I won't use anything but a Mac for prepress work but it's what I know after 30 plus years. Find OS X to be a much more elegant, trouble free environment...

Had an awesome family plan several years ago -$250 per month. No yearly increase for years. Very low or no co-pays. Prescriptions covered 100%. Never paid for ANY medical care. Then the government got involved... Benefits coordinator stood up in front of our group and clearly stated your plan...

Well believe it or not company I am with DOES export printed product to Mexico from the US. It not huge volume but it's worth our while. It's a for a US based company that has facilities in Mexico and apparently they can find no "domestic" source for this product. Specs for this product are very...

One Corel Draw advocate among dozens of Adobe advocates; reflects current marketshare for better or worse. Use whatever tool gets the job done in your environment. David makes very compelling arguments for CD - in HIS work. We use AI native files 99.5% of the time. Very rarely open Acrobat or...

Quite common in folding carton business to place printers logo on a glue or tuck flap that is not visible once carton is erected and filled. Recent trend has moved away from that type of branding due to competitive pressures. What does remain is job #'s, die position #'s and various customer or...

Google IS evil. You are not the customer. You are the product. Use at your own peril.

Clearly the citizens of the UK have issues with the EU.

Well I do, every weekend. And yes the NFL is the most popular professional sport in the US but losing viewership this year. The problems with the Surface are purportedly networking issues and not with the tablet itself. Imagine having to compete with the 30,000 plus phones in the stands at a...

Confirmed this works. Very cool trick! No idea why it works but going in my bag O. Apparently missing is not really missing.

Ran one but only in college courses at RIT. First job out of school commercial shop I landed at had 3 of them. As I recall the quality of the type was terrible at least compared to computer typesetters they upgraded to shortly after I arrived. Will check out the video tonight. Thanks for the...

Haven't used a process camera since school in the 70's and for good reason! If your original image is vector based you cannot get anymore detail of if it than imaging out of your Agfa device at it's highest resolution. The process camera analog steps you describe will no doubt NOT improve image...

From a folding carton perspective I would not characterize this market as low hanging fruit. Transitioned from Commercial 8+ years ago and the differences were startling. For many or most customers you'll need: a structural engineer plus software with a cutting table & a score bend tester, die...

Same here; have not seen a CorelDraw file is well over a decade. Customers all use Adobe applications. And yes Possumgal a little competition would be welcome!

My first flash inspriration: Back in the middle 80's working as a customer service person and estimator in at NYC sales office fora CT based commercial printer I was having trouble keeping up with volume of quotes. My boss suggested I automate the process by using a computer. Bought a IBM PC XT...

Alwan ColorHub will do just this using hot folders on a Mac. Not cheap but solid product, good support. They have a trial version. Alwan ColorHub