The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #12960   Message #104639
Posted By: Bat Goddess
13-Aug-99 - 07:47 AM
Thread Name: tech: How Many Mudcatters using MACs?
Subject: RE: How Many Mudcatters using MACs?
Since most high end output devices are Postscript, Macs are definitely the machine of choice in the graphic arts industry. Plus we can use or get at just about anything in a PC file. And can format PC discs. Users of Wintel boxes can't seem to cope with a Mac disc. Worse comes to worse, convert it to a PDF and output CMYK seps from that.

Color management, which is a major part of my industry, isn't even being addressed on the PC side.

Sound/music, graphics, etc. were all integrated first on the Mac side -- without buying special cards/hardware, etc.

BTW, I started out in '85 with a IBM-XT, no HD, 256k RAM ("You'll never need more than that.") and, of course, proprietary typesetting equipment (that didn't even dream about doing graphics, let alone integrating them, or doing anything like multi-media).

Can't twist my brain around Wintel boxes, but, hey!, whatever works for what you're doing.

Linn the Bat Goddess