A good print shop either does it own color separations or prefers tog
et them in a page layout format such as Pagemaker (now indesign) or
Quark.
At least that was the experience I had when I did years ago.
I do most of my own printing nowadays and have no need for the
separations.
Sometimes good print shops get bad files from customers and have to redo
them almost completely. Then they get hell from the customer who gave
them a Publisher or Word file, wanting to know why it's so expensive to
print their files.
More than a few printers I know either completely turn down Publisher
files or insist on doing the work in-house from scratch instead of
repairing bad documents. The files can be fixed but the purpose of
having digital files is so that they're mostly "camera ready", ready to
make plates and print. For things that aren't prepared for press,
printers are now using digital color printers or photocopiers, but
without the high quality output they usually do on presses or the 2400
dpi digital printers.
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