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JayTurner19
09-08-2005, 07:06 PM
I assume it means a layout file that is ready to be printed, such as a pdf.
But we all know what assuming does...
morea
09-08-2005, 07:08 PM
it is hard copy - a printed sample - for spot color work.
If you have a document that is black and red, it prints the separations at high enough quality that the negs and plates for the job can be made from the prints.
Edit: They would either be photographed or scanned for reproduction.
The camera we had at the print shop where I used to work couldn't photograph screens.
rickself
09-08-2005, 07:21 PM
Haven't heard that term for a while!
D-Zine
09-08-2005, 08:05 PM
been awhile since I have heard it too Rick!
jimking
09-08-2005, 08:16 PM
Yep hardcopy to shoot. We still do it for certain folks! :eek:
PrintDriver
09-08-2005, 08:26 PM
Now people up here use "camera ready" to mean their files are all set to rip.
So NOT!!!
jimking
09-08-2005, 08:33 PM
Not so. Ummm--camera-----a cd----ummmm. The only connection I see is "Ready" :confused:
rickself
09-08-2005, 08:34 PM
"Ready" doesn't pertain to files either does it? Last time I really saw a camera ready file was prolly the last time I saw a PMT!
Mynock
09-08-2005, 08:37 PM
PMT - PreMenstrual Tension (http://hcd2.bupa.co.uk/fact_sheets/Mosby_factsheets/Premenstrual_tension.html)?
jimking
09-08-2005, 08:38 PM
HeHe! What's a PMT? :confused:
Mynock
09-08-2005, 08:40 PM
PMT?
http://www2.slac.stanford.edu/vvc/cosmicrays/images/pmt-uncovered.jpg
Mynock
09-08-2005, 08:42 PM
PMT? Philip Michael Thomas?
http://www.nndb.com/people/994/000024922/pmt-fix.jpg
jimking
09-08-2005, 08:48 PM
http://www.pmt1.com/ :cool:
"Ready" doesn't pertain to files either does it? Last time I really saw a camera ready file was prolly the last time I saw a PMT!
Since we do mainly small run spot color stuff we still get camera ready art including old PMT's . Usually this stuff comes from customers who are e-tarded, use non GD programs or from business owners that demand we return their artwork. Occasionally we will get in some ancient artwork with tons of overlays and non photo blue lines nicely rubber cemented on a piece of board. I can only imagine what a pain in the ass it would be to make corrections to something like that.
rickself
09-08-2005, 09:02 PM
ummm...yep, this is one for the kids - photo mechanical transfer...
or in my house, paranormal motives of terror!
Vikia
09-08-2005, 10:31 PM
HeHe! What's a PMT? :confused:
Photo Mechanical Transfer
"Positive" black and white image used for paste-up mechanical layouts.
rickself
09-08-2005, 10:35 PM
Photo Mechanical Transfer
weLl, i diDn't cApitaliZe in my rEply buT I tHink it's the same thinG!
Thanks for setting me straight Vikia:D
vtwin_gary
09-08-2005, 11:37 PM
rubber cemented on a piece of board. I can only imagine what a pain in the ass it would be to make corrections to something like that.
wow this brings back memories & they aren't pleasant.
PrintDriver
09-08-2005, 11:47 PM
I am so glad I just missed the paste up era. Tale end of stat cameras was where I started (and that was where I stood most of the time too).
Seriously, I have no clue why some designers, well actually, it's more the marketing folk that insist the logo they are sending me is Camera Ready, which usually means it's a Photoshop eps embedded in an Illustrator file. <sigh>
Rapps
09-09-2005, 10:25 AM
HA! Philip Michael Thomas - that kills me!
Thanks Mynock, inadevertantly you've answered my question about Premenstrual Tension - the other day a collegue mentioned PMT and I couldn't figure out what the "T" stands for. I'd much rather have "tension" than a "syndrome", that's another point to validate why I defected to the UK.
Anyway, that's not the PMT the rest of you are talking about so I'll shut up now!
-Rachel
In college which was 1999-2001 they taught us how to make PMT's.
It's more outdated than a commador computer.
But worth knowing the process.
Mynock
09-09-2005, 01:05 PM
HA! Philip Michael Thomas - that kills me!
Thanks Mynock, inadvertantly you've answered my question about Premenstrual Tension - the other day a colleague mentioned PMT and I couldn't figure out what the "T" stands for. I'd much rather have "tension" than a "syndrome", that's another point to validate why I defected to the UK.
Anyway, that's not the PMT the rest of you are talking about so I'll shut up now!
-Rachel
Thanks if I can educate one person about PMT then I have done my job, oh and if I make people laugh it makes me feel worthwhile.
P.S. I fixed the spelling of inadvertantly and colleague. :)
I think half of my education costs was paying for PMT supplies. Ugh.
I went to college from 80-83. The Mac was just emerging but nowhere to be found at my school. Anyone else remember Varitype? Typositor? Marking up copy for typesetting? Rubber cement? Ruby? Kern ruling pens?
Ah, but I date myself.
Hmm... that also describes my college sex life.
'Camera-ready' today refers to checking for any broccoli between the incisors.
Rapps
09-09-2005, 02:05 PM
Thanks if I can educate one person about PMT then I have done my job, oh and if I make people laugh it makes me feel worthwhile.
P.S. I fixed the spelling of inadvertantly and colleague. :)
Whew, I almost looked like an idiot for a second there! Thanks for your editing - I'll try paying more attention next time I comment (I blame bad spelling on the PMT).
-Rachel
PrintDriver
09-09-2005, 02:08 PM
LMAO at Broacher dating himself.
We were still using Batch cards on the computer at the first college I went to in 1983. Now those were fun! I made quite a bit of side money doing up runs for the other Bio majors in the Statistics classes. When I went back in 1993 we used Mac Quadras for Quark class. 3 of them for 20 students. Woohoo!
Oh man Broacher you crack me up :D
Only Seen Here
09-11-2005, 02:46 AM
In screen printing, camera ready is an anachronistic term that refers to the time when you would actually have to cut each color of a separation out of ruby film with a razor and create a negative from that using a camera so that emulsion screens could be exposed using the film.
Nowadays, that "film" is called a plate and is printed with a laserjet printer, so no cameras are actually used (no way, really?). "Camera Ready" is an old fashioned way of saying "already separated" so that the plates can be sent to print without any modification or setup by the artist or prepress guy.
...or at least that's what I was taught. Feel free to pimpslap me, Broacher, if I am wrong about anything. :P