[tor.general] Linotronic 300 Service Bureau

panders@alias.UUCP (Pat Anderson) (01/09/90)

Can anyone recommend a *skillful* linotronic 300
service bureau? I use Word 4.0 with Freehand illustrations, and
our current service bureau has difficulties with Word.

...pat. anderson
tech. doc. specialist

frank@mnetor.UUCP (Frank Kolnick) (01/09/90)

In article <708@alias.UUCP> panders@alias.UUCP (Pat Anderson) writes:
>
>Can anyone recommend a *skillful* linotronic 300
>service bureau? I use Word 4.0 with Freehand illustrations, and
>our current service bureau has difficulties with Word.
>
>...pat. anderson
>tech. doc. specialist

Everybody has trouble with Word, possibly because its output makes them
look bad :-)  Years ago, a service recommended XPress and I've been
using it ever since. In my experience, finding a Lino bureau that knows
what they're doing is not easy. I've settled on Corp-Text, which is in
Richmond Hill. I hear (but have never used) ExperDesign downtown somewhere
is good. (let me know how you like them if you try them, please)
(I'm serious about Word, btw. It's level of typographic control doesn't
come up to the possibilities of a typesetting machine. Unless you're
primarily interested in just better type, as opposed to the overall
look of the page.)



-- 
Frank Kolnick,
consulting for, and therefore expressing opinions independent of, Computer X
UUCP: {allegra, linus}!utzoo!mnetor!frank