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Color Lasers Hit the Spot:

They're cheaper than dye subs and better than inkjets. Are color lasers your best bet for in-house printing?


When it comes to in-house printing, the eternal dilemma is the t rade-off between quality and price. Color laser printers are gaining in populari ty as their image quality improves and prices of low-end models decline.

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Fast Times @ Digital High

High school students are embracing electronic-publishing technology, propelling their yearbook designs and production skills into the 21st century.


Back when I was in high school, we didn't have Adobe Photoshop or MetaTools' Kai's Power Tools. When we wanted to do something radical for our yearbook photography--

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9th Annual Design Awards

Other readers are waiting for your opinion


Go ahead, pat yourself on the back. The 9th Annual Publish Design Contest was a resounding success, thanks to the 800 entries you, our readers, submitted from around the world--from the United States to Russia, Honduras, Malaysia, Hungary, Brazil, the Netherlands, Greece, Fiji, and Barbados. Determining the winners was no easy task, requiring our panel of distinguished judges to spend a long day patiently sifting through and discussing hundreds of identity packages, annual reports, posters, brochures, news So let's not dawdle. The winners are. . .

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Tricks of the Trade

Here's how Mac-based prepress shops conjure up perfect output from their clients' PC files


Prepress houses have always had to work magic to output troublesome files flawlessly, but until recently it was single-platform magic. If you worked in output, you used a Macintosh. But these days, prepress professionals need a whole new bag of tricks.
















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