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From: consp22@bingsuns.cc.binghamton.edu (Darren Handler)
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Subject: Re: PageMaker, Quark XPress, & Print Shops
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Date: 16 Jul 90 15:03:06 GMT
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Many print shops have 1, maybe two DTP programs for the Mac.  They are
almost always PageMaker and then something else.  Any good print shop
with a Mac should be able to handle a PostScript file, so applications
aren't really a problem.

The problem is that the software technology and the hardware required to
run them move ahead to fast for some smaller printshops to keep up with.
If a printshop tried to keep up with the new technology, it would spend
thousands of dollars a month in hardware alone.

The printshop by me just purchased a new RIP4 processor for $27,000
dollars.  In several months, that will be no longer be state of the art.  

Sigh...

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