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BuckarooB
06-27-2004, 09:58 AM
This doesn't happen to me often, but it's been a particularly weird last couple of years and I'm beginning to lose my patience with the lack of work for GDs and artists in general.
Used to be I simply blamed the French for our industry's problems, but I'm beginning to suspect our own favorite computing machine has empowered the untalented general user with some basic tools that allows them to cut into our profession. And our brothers in printing need the work and happily accept their cobbled together tripe and struggle to make a sow's ear from it in the name of good service. Who can blame them?
With that thought in mind, I may have stumbled onto a concept that - though extraordinarily difficult to implement - may be the very salvation for our sagging egos and pocket books.
We have to make print services a prescription-based industry accessible only through Licensed Graphic Design Practitioners. You know, much the way doctors and plumbers operate.
I don't know. Maybe even that miraculous chain of events would not lift me from this present malaise. Maybe it would take a professional of a whole 'nother color to lift my professional and personal spirits, but restructuring all of society may be our only route to the respect I hear so many of my peers crying out for.
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D-Frag
06-27-2004, 12:41 PM
Keep your head up, I think the french are still using Corel and Quark, it could be worse....
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PrintDriver
06-27-2004, 04:51 PM
I'm all for licensing GD's...
IF THE PRINT INDUSTRY GETS TO GIVE THE TEST!!!
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A lot of GD's can't set up a file for sh!t either.
PrintDriver is a large format digital print dude. His advice/opinions may not apply to the 4color/offset/web world of printing
BuckarooB
06-27-2004, 07:20 PM
D-Frag - what's yer poison? InDesign? Whatever it is, it's good to know others use something besides Quark. I've taught Quark classes and know it's steady as a battleship - albeit an Italian Navy Battleship - but it it is often an unhappy place. Though, many a prepress shop loves it for some reason... It's difficult and expensive for them to change, but there's something unsettling about the arrogance of a company that has been around forever and holds all the cards - sort of like Adobe sometimes. I know I resent the constant upgrade-go-round that the wares companies subject us to.
PrintDriver - yes, of course the print industry should develop those guidelines! Give us your short list of skills for prepress. There are so few resources to prep GDs properly for print pro interface that info from someone like yourself would help everyone exposed to your suggestions. You find yourself in a position to make a difference in this industry. You hold the keys - Share your experience!
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BuckarooB, our resources section is full of guidlines for preparing files for both print and digital output.
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Keyare
06-27-2004, 10:08 PM
Welcome to the board Banzai!
PrintDriver
06-27-2004, 11:24 PM
Kool, no one reads those!
Even some of the newer regulars didn't know they were there til you pointed it out.
Just like posting file requirements on our company website or pdf-ing them directly to a client.
So many unread pixels.
PrintDriver is a large format digital print dude. His advice/opinions may not apply to the 4color/offset/web world of printing
I know PD, It's sad. I guess I'll have to go and re-name those threads. I'll change the titles to something like 'GIANT NAKED BOOBIES'
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PrintDriver
06-28-2004, 04:16 AM
Ah ha ha!
Though more'n a handful is a waste
;)
PrintDriver is a large format digital print dude. His advice/opinions may not apply to the 4color/offset/web world of printing
Although I would love to see something like this it would be really diffcult to implement cause basicly as you said once you got the equipment who is going to stop you.
I'm a mad scientist desk top publisher, I have a PC running MS Publisher and I know how to use it. Plus I just copy and paste the page into MS Word save as HTML and dub myself a proffesional web designer. Evil pure evil, but I call it genius. /emoticons/devil.gif
BuckarooB
07-06-2004, 07:28 PM
Thanks for the welcome Keyare and others. Thanks to the group for the forum.
Our profession will reach its Zenith when not only are we licensed to practice, but when we have those cool little medallions on our car bumpers that let us park anywhere we please...
Thanks gang.
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