New Shops Using Quark
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- mynameisgod
Are the young shops using Quark or have they all switched to InDesign?
- rasko40
printers dont like to switch, so quark lives on.
- tara|gee0
it will never die
- Mimio0
Any decent printer should have both apps.
- rasko40
you try giving a full page magazine ad to a publications house and see what they say to indesign.
- Mimio0
We send our art out as flat files for publications. I was mainly addressing custom offset & digital runs.
- freshmode0
We use InDesign unless a client hands over a Quark file. Then se send it off to a freelance production artist to convert it to InDesign for us if we are going to continue to use and modify the document in the future. If we are simply going to take info from it, we convert it pdf & do anything new in InDesign. If the file is too large, then we keep it in Quark & just have someone work the changes.
I haven't had a printshop tell me they can't use our InDesign files. Then again I ask before I just send over files to a printer.
Quark will always be because their are plenty of people who like it and are very good at it. We just don't see the need to learn it if we have what we need with InDesign.
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- atomica0
Our shop sticks with Quark we frown at inDesign files and more importantly at pagemaker files. We keep a machine with the software on it just for conversion and stuff, but Quarks very staple for the office.
- tara|gee0
its not a matter of printers not lieking it or something - its that indesign doesnt have as many output options - but alot of these new shops could give a damn about real quality printing...
- andyjohnson0
We worked with a printer that would take our indesign files, convert them to pdf and then import them into quark. (short lived relationship)
I haven't given any printer anything but a pdf file in at least six months.
quark will never die, not until these old publishing houses die. But then again, why buy/upgrade photoshop when you can buy the creative suite w/ indesign for $200-300 more? it will be a good fight. both products have there strengths.
- Mimio0
Tara,
What options are you referring to? Binary printing formats are the only output options I'm aware of, that was also fixed a version ago.
- tara|gee0
i didnt know that mimi0 - i will retract my hatement ;)err statement
- czrock0
Just did our christmas card in quark because the printer didn't support Indesign. I switched to Indesign with version 2, using quark makes me realize how great Indesign is.
The rotate tool in quark is the funny thing ever, I swear it will never get better.
- JohnR0
I have used both.
Most people that I have worked with are extremely biased towards one or the other.
Pro: InDesign is a little more reasonably priced though.