Hasselblad....NICE!!!
Good for you for having that knowledge, cool!
We did a complex cover with numerous spot channels and alpha channels, Type 1 fonts and AI artwork exported as clipping paths, and the service bureau had a PC ripper, for some bizarre reason, and it was a nightmare.
The vendor eventually ended up saying to us “If you do a job like this again, don’t bring it to us.”!
I’m sorry to hear about your company folding.
Printing’s still expensive...we did a job that cost $28,000, done in Medford at a Kelmscott company, and they’re great, their pressman’s the best we’ve ever seen, but then I hear from other folks like us and they rave about how cheap it is to print in Red China or Asia...it’s spooky, hard to say how American companies survive.
See ya’,
Ed
Don’t know many printers on the west coast. Rice in LA would be about the only one. Know plenty of big catalog and direct mail printers in the midwest. Hennegan in OH is where something sort of fancy with sheetfed like this would have gone in more prosperous times.
Printing offshore is ... interesting. In some ways, it’s not so bad. Press proofs are a thing of the past here, but not there. Having to explain things very literally and very carefully gets old, as does paraphrasing instructions in case something gets lost in translation. You don’t get it quickly, either.