But any one of those printers could say, "Could you not save it as PS and make it TIFF/IT or DCS?" So I can say, "Yeah, we'll do that." I go to my engraver and say, save as DCS. Will it look any different on press? Potentially.
BTM: But you don't see it as a major obstacle.
Calvano: That's right. By the way, I do want to respond briefly to your implied statement that it's easier to prepare film than to prepare pages for CTP. I don't think that's the case. The rules for creating a file of integrity for film output also apply to computer-to-plate file preparation. If you made an error in a file which generated film output that was missing a font, the same thing would happen in CTP, or vice versa. So you're really only changing from outputting film to outputting the file on a plate--you can consider film like the plate.
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