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From: dathomps@vela.acs.oakland.edu (dathomps)
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Subject: Re: *** REMOTE FULL-COLOR POSTSCRIPT PRINTING SERVICE, IS THIS FOR REAL ???
Message-ID: <5499@vela.acs.oakland.edu>
Date: 22 Mar 91 18:06:16 GMT
References: <5490@vela.acs.oakland.edu> <2737@travis.csd.harris.com>
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In article <2737@travis.csd.harris.com> dana@hardy.hdw.csd.harris.com (Dan Aksel) writes:
>In article <5490@vela.acs.oakland.edu> dathomps@vela.acs.oakland.edu (dathomps) writes:
>>Hello People,
>>
>  Sure do.  Your local print shop.  The printing industry today is very
>  advanced and most COMMERCIAL quality print shops routinely use PageMaker and
>  Ventura.  I've come across one about a mile and half from my office that uses
>  WordPerfect for newletters, etc.  I use ANY application, windows or not, and
>  write to "File" with a PostScript printer selected.  This creates what is
>  commonly known as a form of an encapsulated post script (*.EPS) file.  I drive
							    ^^^^^^
	Actually an EPS file is not usually created.

>  over during lunch and he prints in full color for $4/page.  I print all the
>  B&W material here at work for about a penny a page.  Collolate in your color
>  pages and presto! top quality work.

	We are talking about different things here, low-quality
	separations and manual labor.

>
>  The printer drops his price to $2 per page for pages 11-99 and $1 per page for
>  100 and up.  Granted these prices are EXTREMELY high.  Anything over about
>  five pages and you'd be better off having him print it than laser print it.
>  Of course he is a print shop and thats what he wants to do....
>
>  The only way a service bureau can provide fast service is to couple their
>  product with transport service like Federal Express, or Airborne.  The
>  cheapest you'll get away with is about $20 for handling alone.  If  you don't

	That depends if you are distributing things from one major
	site.

>  like the drive to your local print shop, maybe he has a modem you could down
>  load to and then drive over to pick it up... some print shops offer "free"
>  pick up and delivery...  Pick up a floppy, drop off a print...

	Can you give some names.
>
>  IMO you should conisder purchasing your own color printer if you require more
>  than about 100 copies per month...

	At 1ppm, or less, you'll be waiting a long time.

>  ----
>  Dan Aksel

Dan,

	I believe were talking about Imagesetter Productions here and
	not 300dpi Thermal Wax Technology.

	Are you telling me that you would prefer a manual process rather
	than printing Press-Productions as easy as "File-Print"

	Also, most users must manually compress their files before
	they send them over (if they have a comp. app.).

	Apparently, this process uses compression (30%) and sends
	the file in the background...

	I think you have a valid point - but I also think you are
	about spot color output...

	Also, from what I heard, the equipment used here has not
	even been released to the public but is in demo.

	Can you say A-D-O-B-E R-I-P...