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Greetings, When dealing with a cut off of 22.75" what size plate do I need to run. In other words, what is the standard plate size for this cut off? thanks,

If I have a magazine trim size of 10.875 x 8.375, can I print it on a press with a cut off of 22.75. A press like a Heidelberg M130? How is maximum trim calculated using the cutoff specification? thanks,

We are a US company looking buy our own commercial printing press or outsource in India or anywhere in Central America except for Columbia. Do you have any contacts or info for printing in El Salvador or Guatamala? We would be interested in those locations as well. thanks, Hairfarm

I'm being asked to look at buying a printing press in India or Costa Rica and then set up a printing operation there. We print roughly 20 titles. It's all CMYK, 133 line, 8 x 10 7/8th, saddle and perfect bound magazine printing. Basically, we print titles like "Street Trucks" "Gun World"...

Doom... Doom... Quote: "Speaking of doom, I've always thought a Funeral Director would be a good career choice for most prepress operators because we're so used to pain, suffering and loss." Too funny!

Thanks... Thanks... Great input from everyone. I've written down some of the suggestions many of you have offered in this thread. It's important to keep in mind that I'm not losing my job because I'm not keeping up with technology, but because my job is being shipped over seas. No amount of...

Advice regarding India outsourcing: The medium-sized publishing company (Action Pursuit Group) that I work for has recently been sold to investors that are intent on moving some of our jobs to India. They said so in the introductory company-wide meeting we had with them today. Within our...

Re: OpenType fonts Thanks for the tips! David, Font Explorer is working out to be much better for us. thanks for posting! Hairfarm

Re: PDF or EPS from Quark7 Don, I liked your way of creating postscript so much that I forwarded it to my work email address (from home) and implemented it. It works great for us! Thanks for taking the time to post it. One question though. You mentioned in your post that you modified your...

I'm having bizarre issues with Opentype fonts in Quark 7.3.1 OpenType fonts will kern outwards wildly when opened in Quark 7.3.1 I work in a small in-house Prepress department. We are in the same building as the 8 artists who produce our magazines. They "Collect for Output" from Quark and we...