Re: Who does the seperations?
Re: Who does the seperations?
- Subject: Re: Who does the seperations?
- From: Klaus Karcher <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 06 Jan 2007 22:21:47 +0100
Terry Wyse wrote:
I get to visit a lot of prepress/print shops in a year and
there is VERY little actual image work going on these days. It's all
about RIPing, imposing and getting PDFs to plate as Roger says. Once the
drum scanners basically got shut down, most printers simply pushed the
responsibility of image prep upstream to artists, designers and photogs.
'Bout the only time Photoshop gets cracked open is when there's a
problem with a particular image that needs to get fixed. I call it R&R&R
image editing...Remove, Repair and Replace. :-)
I'm glad that the situation here in Germany is a little bit different.
Photographers and agencies of course take on or at least control the
creative part, but they are neither willing nor able to deal with the
technical details. The prepress departments of the print shops do even
the "R&R&R" editing only in case of an emergency. They expect PDFs ready
to be imposed and a contract proof. And in between we do our work. I
think at least 50% of the "ordinary" an 100% of the challenging jobs are
produced this way.
Sometimes the agencies come to us with data they sent directly to the
print shop or publishing house an the printed result. They ask us what
went wrong. That's always funny -- and in most cases the customer is
responsible for the mess, not the printer.
Klaus
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