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You’re not better your just naive. Your time will come. I hope for your sake your not thinking about a career in prepress cause it won’t last long

Im right there with you with the depression! Sounds like you fought your way back with persistence and hard work. Good for you, that is inspiring to hear.

I hear you my friend and my heart goes out to you and any of us going through this but that is our reality.

You are right about that. I have thought about opening a business but simply don't know the first thing of how to do it or where to get funds for that. I have a small startup online where I design and sell banners on my website and etsy (alterimagebanners.com) but I just started and it doesn't...

All too true

Thank you for the replies. I was a prepress tech for the offset side, Prinergy, Metrix ....etc. My specialty was as a retouching/color correction guy. I saw the handwriting on the wall the last couple years but felt I couldn’t walk away from a good paying job, now I’m paying the price for my bad...

Hello all, I was laid off 6 months ago, I have been a prepress technician for most of my career. My company moved, restructured than laid myself, along with other long time employees off. I was with the company for 13 years, was paid well above scale for a prepress tech and that I believe is the...

Hello, My name is Bill, and I’m a high end retoucher and I’m looking for some freelance image work in the area. (Or full time work). I can retouch and color correct your images for you, and do image compositing. I can do virtually anything you need done to your images with quick turnaround...

Experienced prepress tech looking for job in the Chicago area. Prinergy workflow, Metrix imposition, Fuji Javelin platesetter. Strong on Photoshop, retouching, color corrections. Resume attached

Indesign! Indesign! Hello, I've been in prepress for the last 25 years, and I work in quark and Indesign everyday. In my opinion Indesign is far superior to Quark. One of the things I like best about Indesign is the ability to jump back and forth between Photoshop and Illustrator when doing...

Thanks Thanks for the replies, some good insights and opinions. I see a common theme, prepress skills don't seem to carry over to web much. A bit discourging. May have to rethink that idea and look into something else. :)

I feel the same way about getting out of printing, wish I'd done it years ago. The stress and aggravation are not worth it. Hopefully I can apply my skills to something else.

I've been in prepress over 20 years. My specialty is Photoshop, however I do all the prepress duities also, from file prep to platmaking. Would like to transition out of printing and go into web design/flash animation. Was wondering if anyone had made that transition and what skills carried...