Forum: Carrara


Subject: The next question.

mclarsen opened this issue on Mar 03, 2001 ยท 19 posts


mclarsen posted Sun, 04 March 2001 at 11:38 AM

I hear you willf! I began my graphic career with those archaic tools 12 years before the first Mac. For a truly satisfying experience, everyone should have to "spec type" for a 5 column, 12 page daily (hopefully remembering the correct leading); cut apart pages of galley type; pasteup with FPO graphics or create the ones needed; create acetate overlays for additional colors or effects; get the whole mess under the camera; shoot the negs; strip them for plating and then have the client change one of the jump-stories or delete it all together and away we go back to telling the typesetter about the additional galleys we need. When I think of the amount of hours involved in getting a piece ready for print or using that new-fangled press-type or making type/layout changes compared to what we do with computers now... Long live the bits and bytes!