Digital Prepress Girl
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Hi All,
I'm a Digital Prepress Artists for a small Print/Marketing Company, and I am looking for a new VDP program to use. I am currently using Creo Darwin. It's an ok program. It has taken me over a year to master. On small VDP jobs I just use Data Merge in InDesign. It's much simpler than Darwin. But since the new Darwin upgrade is $2Grand plus, I'm looking for something else. I have InDesign CS4 on mac. I don't know if Design Merge would be better than Darwin? If anyone has used these programs please help. I send the Darwin files to the printer VPS. That way the images are at the printer and it doesn't take long to rip. Do other programs offer this too? Plus I am sending it to a Creo Front end of a Xerox 7000.
Thanks for you help.
I'm a Digital Prepress Artists for a small Print/Marketing Company, and I am looking for a new VDP program to use. I am currently using Creo Darwin. It's an ok program. It has taken me over a year to master. On small VDP jobs I just use Data Merge in InDesign. It's much simpler than Darwin. But since the new Darwin upgrade is $2Grand plus, I'm looking for something else. I have InDesign CS4 on mac. I don't know if Design Merge would be better than Darwin? If anyone has used these programs please help. I send the Darwin files to the printer VPS. That way the images are at the printer and it doesn't take long to rip. Do other programs offer this too? Plus I am sending it to a Creo Front end of a Xerox 7000.
Thanks for you help.