Re: Cannot find a local commercial printer

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Matt,

I beg to differ. If a user can output a PDF/X1-a file it will conform to specs and only an idiot printer won't be able to get it right.

Mike

Matt Beals wrote:
If it were only so easy. Just because it's a PDF doesn't mean it is any
easier to deal with than a Publisher file. If you make a bad PDF and send
that off to a printer you have no idea the things a printer might try to get
it to "work". Even if that means ruining certain aspects of the art or
color.

I find it very funny that so many people here think PDF is some sort of
panacea. It's not. It is a means to an end to deliver digital content (art
in our instance). It is no magic bullet, never has been, never will. PDF
based workflows are the basis of my business. Printers are often as
loathsome to take PDFs as they are with Publisher files because it is so
easy to make a bad one and not all of them have the tools to "fix" them.

Next time someone tells you to "just make a PDF", ask them if they
themselves can do it "right" and how to do it "right".

Matt Beals
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On 8/27/06 5:56 PM, in article eRVNZzjyGHA.2384@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Rob
Giordano (Crash)" <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


Why worry about them accepting pub files unless you want them to do layouts
for you...just output to a PDF and give them that.


"NickNeedsHelp" <NickNeedsHelp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:77A29113-2500-47E8-B5EE-198912A54EF1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
| I'm considering using Publisher for the first time to design some
marketing
| materials for my business. I tried to use Microsoft's online search tool
to
| find a local printer that will accept Publisher, but none are coming up.
In
| fact, I can't find any listings whatsoever on that site, none in my city
(San
| Francisco), none in my state, none even nationally web-only. Is this site
| just broken, or is it true that nobody accepts these files? Anyone know
| another way to quickly search for printers, short of using the phone book
and
| calling them one at a time?
|
| The useless search tool:
| http://mspublisher.saltmine.com/printerSearch.aspx
|
| Thanks,
| Nick


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