Mac is best for publishing pros

[MacBytes]

http://www.macbytes.com/images/bytessig.gif (http://www.macbytes.com)

Category: Reviews
Link: Mac is best for publishing pros (http://www.macbytes.com/link.php?sid=20050415181057)

Posted on MacBytes.com (http://www.macbytes.com)
Approved by Mudbug

[Blue Velvet]

No surprises here.

I wonder if the small percentage of shops that switched to PCs during the wilderness years are regretting it or have switched back with the advent of OS X.

I used and owned a PC once for DTP (long but dull story) and found it just barely OK except for getting work to press, reliable distilling, ligatures (as the article says)... never again.

[narco]

No surprises here.

I wonder if the small percentage of shops that switched to PCs during the wilderness years are regretting it or have switched back with the advent of OS X.

I used and owned a PC once for DTP (long but dull story) and found it just barely OK except for getting work to press, reliable distilling, ligatures (as the article says)... never again.

Yeah, out of all my various design jobs throughout the past 10 years, I've only worked at one place that used PCs. This was around 96-97 when everyone was predicting Apple's demise, so they got scared and changed everything to PC. I got fired a couple months later because I wasn't a "team player" but I still see their magazine every now and then when I visit my parents. It looks like total ****.

Fishes,
narco.

[winmacguy]

Yeah, out of all my various design jobs throughout the past 10 years, I've only worked at one place that used PCs. This was around 96-97 when everyone was predicting Apple's demise, so they got scared and changed everything to PC. I got fired a couple months later because I wasn't a "team player" but I still see their magazine every now and then when I visit my parents. It looks like total ****.

Fishes,
narco.

There is a large (300+ staff) magazine publishing house near where I work that publish about 8 or 9 well known well known mainstream glossy weekly and monthly titles. They use Indesign for PC (shock horror :eek: ) and they are chiefly PC based except for a few die hard Mac users there "because PCs are cheaper and standardised". :eek: Their techs and admin staff are all PC types as well
winmacguy

[iGary]

We do our books on Macs, but a large number of stupid, moronic, idiotic, doofus, donkey butt publishing houses are switching to PC's.

Duh. :rolleyes:

[winmacguy]

We do our books on Macs, but a large number of stupid, moronic, idiotic, doofus, donkey butt publishing houses are switching to PC's.

Duh. :rolleyes:

Well we have a PC RIP, an Xserve, and a G4 Adobe Postsript Rip for handling most of our day to day PDF files, mostly we are running G4s running Panther, we run Adobe CS Indesign, Photoshop etc whichi is actually a large software company making PC based applications and a smaller amount of software for Macs. A lot of the clients we deal with use PCs and their inhouse marketing departments also use PCs for PowerPoint and or MS Publisher because it is cheaper and their girls in the department can use it. A lot of the files that we send off to Print Bureaus actually get put on to. Some of our guys at work HAVE to use PCs because the files they get come from PCs and the stuff they are sending off is going to a PC

Outside of the US it is probably cheaper hardware wise to change or upgrade 20 Intel workstations than to replace 20 G4s with 20 G5s. All things being equal a top end P4 workstation with FAST accurate user is going to be fairly close to a G5 with a fast accurate user especially when you factor in the usually day to day issues that can occur.

In the end it comes down to your IT support, what is easiest for your clients and customers, what your operators are happiest with and what the company can afford. Unfortunatly for some of us that isnt always Apple.