Local Company gains Four Nominations in Computer Trade ‘Oscars’Written by Cindy Hallatt
Products of North Staffordshire based computer manufacturers, Optronix Limited, have been nominated in four categories of Computer Trade Shopper’s 2005 Excellence Awards, computer trade’s equivalent of Oscars, run in association with Microsoft, Microscope, Intel and VIP Computers.Competing with industry giants Sony, Iiyama, Samsung and Gigagabyte among many others, number of product category nominations exceeds that of any other manufacturer worldwide. “For any product to receive a nomination is difficult enough”, commented Optronix Technical Director, Philip Kingsland, “To receive four is, in my 40 years in industry, unheard of!” The four categories of nomination are Best Monitor Manufacturer, Best Mobile Computing Manufacturer, Best Motherboard Manufacturer and Best Case/Power Supply Unit Manufacturer. “Nominations come from people who count”, said Optronix Marketing Manager, Cindy Hallatt, speaking from company’s new Congleton Sales Office, “ and that means our customers, which is what really matters to us”. In fact, 14,000 trade customers are invited to submit nominations by Computer Trade Shopper, UK’s leading Computer Trade magazine.
| | Starting your desktop publishing project at the endWritten by Granny's Mettle
The only place where you can find beginning to start at end is during a typical desktop publishing project. As one designer would relate, for all practical purposes, process of culling information starts at end in printing process.These are technical aspects of design for desktop publishing. Let's remember and review them: Step 1 > Gather information from printer. This part of process is even before you start composing your document file. You have to understand and consider how your commercial printer will reproduce your file. There are different strokes for different folks. Different presses have different production requirements, and each company has its own way of doing things. It doesn't matter if your printer is a service bureau or not. The issues that you have to consider are reproducing color, screen frequency and angle, type of output, and scanning photographs. It is best to ask your commercial printer on these so that you could already tailor your document file according to specifications of printer and avoid costly errors later on. Step 2 > Get information from your service bureau. You need to combine requirements of both your printer and your service bureau. After knowing what your printer needs, nest step is to gather information from firm that will output your file on a high-resolution imagesetter. Information you need to find out are: platform and software support, equipment profile, font availability, compatible characters, program files versus printer files, linking versus embedding graphics, scanning photographs, resolution, color trapping, maximum dimensions, and assigning responsibility.
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