[misc.misc] Mac for HiQuality Pre Press: How does it compare?

ia4@cunixd.cc.columbia.edu (Imran Anwar) (11/26/90)

I was going thru the brochures of two Pre-press systems for color magazine
use.  One is  Networked Picture Systems' Page Express.  The other is
TECHEX's FULL COLOR PUBLISHER.  One uses an Intel chip based device for
image manipulation and then output to devices like plotters, film recorders
etc.  the other uses a Silicon Graphics Personal Iris workstation.

Would appreciate recommendations/ comments regarding these systems and
views on how good a Mac II fx based system would be for similar 
high quality color pre press work.

Thanks for your info.

Imran Anwar

knoll@well.sf.ca.us (John Knoll) (11/30/90)

I've used Full Color Publisher on a personal Iris, and I had two impressions:

1. Photoshop on an fx is faster that FCP on a PI!
2. Photoshop has about three times as many image editing functions as
   FCP.

I haven't used the other package, though.  If I were you, I'd go with the Mac.

-John Knoll