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From: Paco X
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1987 21:02

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I'd like to find some companies who take Postscript files directly
from a Macintosh diskette or modem and typeset them on some high
quality device, eg. a Linotype L300.  I tried a couple NY area
typesetters listed under "Graphics" in the "MacWorld Directory" but
those ads turned out to be pretty bogus.  There's an emerging
nationwide chain called "Alphagraphics" which does scanning, let's
you rent time on Page Maker, does Mac -> L300 printing, etc. but
all their jobs have to be mailed to Arizona.  What do you folks
know about such services in other parts of the country?

As a side note, I called over a hundred typesetters, printers, etc.
around New Jersey, most of whom advertised "computer printing". 
About 10% asked "What's a Macintosh?"  Over 75% asked "What's
Postscript?"  And then there was the manager at a major typesetting
firm here who laugh wildly and said "You've got to be joking,
nobody takes desktop publishing seriously..."

paco.
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