I am a prepress technician for a digital printing firm. I work daily with all the major desktop publishing and design products. Every now and then we get in a job done on MS Publisher. This is the bane of the publishing world! It is frustrating and unpredictable. Since I'm the junior member of the prepress staff, I usually get stuck with the Publisher jobs (after much eye-rolling and cursing in the prepress room). They tend to take longer than the other jobs for some reason. In the end the Publisher jobs usually get kicked to R&D to help figure out how to get basic printing work accomplished with it.

Publisher is fine if you want to use the cute templates and print bubble jet cards for Xmas. In many cases it already comes with your computer as shovelware. Mine did. But do not dare use it for anything more serious like brochures, business cards, sell sheets, even wedding invitations. Some printing houses will laugh and not accept it. Fortunately, we've never had to do that, but the closest we came to sending a job back because of format, it has been a Publisher job. It's like trying to fix a rickety deck with a child's plastic toolkit.



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