Some people do that with all of their posts. Go figure.
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JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]
Tech Editor for "Microsoft Publisher 2007 For Dummies"
"Elmo P. Shagnasty" <
[email protected]> wrote:
Why would you specify x-no-archive: yes on your posting?
The root of this weakness, which has been around forever, also affects
many other aspects of the program--which leads it to be the bane of
professional printers everywhere.
Publisher is an RGB program at its core, and is really meant to print to
local home inkjet printers. Using it to do work that is destined for
professional commercial print is akin to having a driver's license and
then claiming you can also fly a 747 to Tokyo.
What alternatives would you folks suggest then? The printing company
likes using InDesign. The client would like to do as much of the work
themselves as possible as they are a low budget not profit
organization.
There are places where non-profits can buy good software cheap:
I've heard good things about Tech Soup; Adobe CS3 Design Premium (!) is
only $136, and you can step up to CS4 (if you have the computer
horsepower) for only a few bucks more.
Now, InDesign takes some time to learn. Don't skimp on that.
If you want fairly easy like Publisher, and if you have a Mac, you can
use Pages to do probably everything you'd need.
THAT ALL BEING SAID: Publisher stuff *can* work great in a DIGITAL
commercial print environment, rather than traditional offset. I would
heartily recommend that the first step would be to take some of their
Publisher work and find someone with some sort of Xerox digital press--a
5000/7000/8000 or even iGen--and get test prints made.
If it fails, no real loss--you're back to where you were. But it might
work absolutely great. That's because a digital press can ingest the
RGB directly and do what it needs to do to come out on the digital
press. That's different than what happens in a traditional offset
workflow.
And there are those shops out there that have defied the "we hate
Publisher" trend and have come to specialize in Publisher work. I'd say
if you found one of those that ALSO prints on digital presses, you'd
have found a winner of a vendor.
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If the printer is doing things right this problem can either be
eliminated or mitigated by using easily available tools. Someone
commented about 100,100,100,100 blacks. That's a recipie for disaster.
That is 400% ink coverage which is way too high. Ink coverage
shouldn't exceed 300 to 320 for most any reason with general offset
printing. A "rich black" like what is being referred to should be
something like 40 cyan, 30 magenta, 30 yellow 100 black at most. Every
printer has their own idea of what a rich black should be so you have
to ask. Registration color is a special circumstance color, it is not
100 C,M,Y & K. Registration is a color that appears on all color
plates (including spot colors). Registration and 100 CMYK should never
be used in the art itself. Never. Ever. Really, never...
The problem that printers have with these borders is that Publisher
keeps everything in RGB. Printers don't like RGB for some reason. RGB
grays and RGB blacks pose a particularly difficult time for printers
for some reason. What happens is if the RGB blacks in Publisher are
converted to CMYK, the don't come out as solid black generally
speaking. There are plenty of tools that the printer has already or
has access to that fixes this. For example; there is an "auto black"
in Publisher and Office. That color is 13R, 13G and 13B (13,13,13).
When that gets converted to black and white it usually gets converted
to 87% black, not solid black. When someone uses 0R, 0G and 0B (0,0,0)
and converts it to CMYK what you usually end up with is something like
68C, 38M, 36Y and 90K. Which is wrong from a printing stand point, but
following the logic of converting RGB to CMYK it is absolutely
correct.
So there are tools available to fix all this if the printer invests a
few minutes to find them or learning to use them. Find a printer that
takes Publisher files direct or will take an RGB PDF.
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