Mac vs PC Opinions Needed

[DanEaker]

The Communications Department at my company has always used Macs for all the print jobs, since that was the industry standard. These are the only Macs in the company, since the rest of the company uses PCs (a standard dictated by the IT Department). The designers in Communications are not the most technically savvy people, and when technical issues come up with the machines an outside vendor has to come in to fix the issues.

I am the web graphic designer at my company, and I do all my work on a PC, though I used to be in the Communications Department and used the Macs when I was there (I switched departments in 2000). I have been asked to assess the feasibility of switching the Communications department to PCs so the upkeep and maintenance can stay in-house.

I know that for a long time Mac was the standard in the print field (handbooks, newsletters, brochures, etc.) Is this still true? Are there any issues that anyone has come across using PCs to create printed material? What are the readers of this forum using? Any comments and insight will be helpful and much appreciated. Thank you!

 

[jimoblak]

Did wmin need to be answered?

I believe wmin was only responding to artman62's comment about font platform conversion utilities. While there are utilities that can convert fonts between platforms, these utilities take time ($) to convert. It is much easier to open the documents on the platform that they were created on.

...or better yet...
1) open documents in Mac OSX. OSX opens Mac and Windows fonts.
2) send PDFs with embedded fonts.

Yes, there are printers that charge extra for converting fonts as it takes them more time and may conflict with font licensing. This is what wmin was commenting on.

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