Help! IT want to make us use PCs!
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- Horp0
Wow, I didn't think things like this were an issue any more. I had this exact same problem years ago when I went to a company to set up an in-house design department. It was almost identical, I couldn't print to their printer.
The IT team immediately went on an offensive about me having to switch to PC. It was a long and bloody battle and the upshot of it was that although I won (ie I built the department on macs not PCs) the IT Dept were then a total bitch to us for ever more.
The way I got around it was:
- to pursuade them that buying my department a couple of dedicated Epson bubblejet printers for a couple of hundred quid would be cheaper than expecting my team to relearn their trade on an unsuitable PC that could not handle large amounts of dedicated graphics work.
- That by allowing us to be a self-sufficent Mac island they would avoid a slew of compatibility issues
- That by doing our data intensive full colour graphics ripping and printing to our own very cheap but superior quality printers, we would not cause frustration by keeping everyone waiting in a queue for our files to process.
- That by being a stand-alone Mac set-up with bridges to the main server, we would largely take good care of our Mac set-up ourselves, as Mac people are by necessity their own IT support as well... so it was actually in the interests of IT to let us do our own thing.
- but years ago macs were superior in terms of performance, especially in design matters. not any more...jimbojones
- I meant to add that this was back in 1999.Horp
- I didn't even own a mac back then :)jimbojones
- Macs are still superior as the Adobe applications are developed with the Mac hardware in mind.monospaced
- bullshit, give me some links to support that.DrBombay
- adobe apps run equally well on macs and windoze. it's the system (vista and xp) that can slow things down, but that doesn't have to happen.jimbojones