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On Fri, 01 May 98 08:27:01 GMT, David@longley.demon.co.uk (David
Longley) wrote:

>I  have  a friend who would like to bring  a  quarterly  magazine 
>which  currently  runs at about 10 pages with colour  prints  and 
>costs about 3K for 2000 copies. They want to buy a PC rather than 
>MAC  but  compatibility is a stumbling block. They  are  familiar 
>with PCs but not MACs and would prefer a PC system.
>

   What's the problem with compatability?  Things like Quark are
available for both platforms, and each platform can read the other's
files.

>Perhaps   a   second  hand Powermac?  Could  someone  suggest   a  
>suitable setup?  They had ideas of bringing the scanning in-house  
>too.   I  was  going to show them what one can  do  witha   NIKON 
>COOLSCAN   ona   PC,  but  I see two problems at least.  One   is  
>getting   anything  print  ready is likely to  be  difficult

   Why do you think this?

>  and 
>secondly,  how does  one get such large files to a  printer?

  Depends what the production house wants.  Most decent ones will
accept a variety of formats, such as ZIP carts, CDs and some will even
take SCSI drives.

>  The 
>graphics  images  must take up quite a bit of  storage.  Finally, 
>what's the best DTP to use? 
>
>Does anyone know of any good companies who deal with  such small
>clients and who can be relied on to do a good job, and advise on
>equipment?

   I'd check with your local yellow pages.  There are *lots* of
companies offering this sort of service.  My advice is to send test
jobs to a few, pick the one you are happiest with and stick with them.

  I've done this myself.  In my case (sometime in the past) the
management had rather more money than sense, and although the rest of
the company used PCs, and there was no in-house expertese in Macs,
bought Macs after being persuaded by the son of one of the directors.
They admitted that the PCs would do it fine - it was just that they
wanted a quite life.
 
  Regards,
         Harry.