HelloAdvice 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 company of 120 employess, we have our own in-house Art and Prepress departments. I manage the Prepress department. We have roughly 20 magazine titles (each title is about 120 pages average). All titles are processed through my 4 man prepress department. We use EFI/Bestcolor and three Epson 7800 proofers. We create Distilled postscript from QX 7. We distill to PDFX/1a from Acrobat Distiller.
The new investors haven't specifically said they were going to outsource Prepress or Art...yet. But I'm looking for some good reasons to defend my department of four employees in case the new owners are considering outsourcing Prepress.
Can Prepress be effectively outsourced? I have not heard too much on this subject to be honest.
Can some of you on this forum please list some reasons why prepress cannot (or shouldn't) be moved to India. I'm trying to defend my department in case the put their cross hairs onto me. I want to make a good case to keep my department in the U.S.
stressed out,
Hairfarm
Lifelong prepress tech, retoucher...blah blah. Most of the clipping path and color correction work is being done in India. Go on Linkedin, its filled with people from India trying to get your clipping path business. India is taking all of the eCommerce retouching away from USA. What I used to get paid $30 hour to do to an image, India does it for 35 cents an image. I can't blame them, blame the global economy for killing the middle class workers in this country.
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