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

David,

Any printer that can't readily accept either Mac or PC formatted files
should not be used. How can a company ignore what 90% of the world runs
on? We do our work on PCs without a problem. When our original printer
wouldn't accept the PC files we went elsewhere. When the new printer
would only accept PC work done in certain programs, we went elsewhere.
We believe that our vendors need to be as customer-oriented as we are
and do the job that the customer wants, not what the printer wants.

We do similar work as your friend for clients. We produce the magazine
layouts in Corel Ventura 7 (soon upgrading to 8), altho we have Quark
and Pagemaker available. When given a choice, we find Ventura is much
easier to use and allows for better control. We scan using Corel
Photo-Paint or CorelDraw. I am not familiar with the Nikon scanner, but
don't be mislead by your printer. Its not the scanner that matters, but
the software.

What we do is create the product in Ventura and then print to a
postscript file. We give the printer the postscript file with the
pictures embedded (if possible) and they simply output from the PS file.
There is nothing for them to do particularly. Separations are done in
CorelDraw if needed. In some cases, we use Adobe Illustrator.

Richard H. Adin
Editorial, Graphic, Design, & Production Services
Rhache Publishers, Ltd.
9 Orchard Drive
Gardiner, NY 12525-5710
TEL: 914 / 883-5884 or 883-7169
E-mail: rhadin@ibm.net