Re: Who does the seperations? (Re: Profile Names and other suggestions)
Re: Who does the seperations? (Re: Profile Names and other suggestions)
- Subject: Re: Who does the seperations? (Re: Profile Names and other suggestions)
- From: Martin Orpen <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2007 21:22:34 +0000
On 6 Jan 2007, at 17:58, Andrew Rodney wrote:
Again, I submit it's vastly easier to train a photographer to produce
acceptable files for output to any device, even a press then it is
to train
a prepress person to shoot a job.
That's about the *falsest* dichotomy I've seen!
We're talking about real pre-press skills and jobs being lost and you
try and make out that it's simply the case that one party isn't up to
doing the job swap?
The problem here is that photographers are quite prepared to carry out
work that they are ill-equipped to do.
And so are printers.
Pre-press was once a profession in its own right. Now it's little more
than a photographer's quest for the perfect profile and few extra
dollars and something that the printer can take or leave because they
still own the most expensive bit of kit in the production chain.
Where are all these pre-press people? There's hardly anybody on this
list who has earned a living creating separations, film and contract
proofs. Just a bunch of photographers, consultants and software
salesmen - all with a lot to say about pre-press despite having no
experience of the industry whatsoever.
Again I'll submit that I cannot understand you can gain the necessary
skills without either experience in the industry (as it was) or
without a huge investment in proofing kit and control equipment.
Most of us learn by experimenting and making mistakes. Is that sort of
thing done on press now?
--
Martin Orpen
Idea Digital Imaging Ltd
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