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Interesting! Our experience was the opposite. What apps do you use? We use InDesign, PShop and Illustrator and work with CMYK, dutones and tritones.

I’m getting frustrated with the loooong delay for Apple Pro computers but still don’t think we’d ever go PC, unless Apple pulls out of the pro market entirely, as seems possible.

I’m a Mac guy from way back, with experience in both the marketing and production environments for printed materials. I recently had to produce a complex catalog with an eight color cover, including spot metallic with CMYK overprints, a tinted dull varnish and spot aquaeous. Then, I did matching hangtags for product. Both were dry trapped, run in one pass on a sheetfed press.

I did it on a PC running XP pro. Didn’t especially like it, and some things were very awkward compared to a Mac. I had to force things in channels that should not have been possible if it were not for my knowledge of “old” film based color separations.

It would have worked much better on my Macs, at home. But, practical reality is that the economy sucks, I closed my company down due to the economy, and went to work for a former customer that only runs PC.

You deal with the hand you’re dealt. The company is happy with the end result, sales are up over last year and even 07 which is really doing something in this economy, and the printer is hoping for a PICA award for their printing on the project.

So, all in all, not a bad thing. It could have been easier, but it got done.

Now, the photography was another matter, lol. Don’t get me started on trying to get commercial photography quality out of a Nikon Coolpix. Drove me batty. I’m accustomed to a Leaf brick on a Hasselblad, if that gives you any indication. Made that work too.

Printing has gotten very cheap, by the way. How they’re making a go of it at that price is beyond me. I was astounded.