Printing: shift from InDesign CS5 to Corel Draw

I have been making a brochure for the techfest of my college in InDesign CS5.....
We have the quotations from one of our known printing press which uses "plate printing technology"...
The problem is: they are saying that they do not support InDesign for printing purpose and they say that they are using CorelDraw for the printing purpose....
So can any one tell me a solution for this sort of problem???
PS: I think printing press people might be requiring PostScript or EPS file... Please help me with this problem....
Thank You
Ankit.

Ankit,
I do understand the problem of finding reliable print service providers, no matter where one is located.
What you should be looking for is not a print service provider who takes InDesign documents, but rather, PDF files exported from InDesign. PDF files are now the standard for providing printers with press-ready content. The preferred PDF, especially if your content has any transparency effects (including drop shadows, clipped images, etc.) and/or RGB content, is PDF/X-4 which maintains content at the highest level of abstraction and minimizes any problems associated with color conversions and transparency.
We certainly do encourage you to participate in an InDesign User Group. Go to <http://www.indesignusergroup.com/> for further information on InDesign User Groups or <http://www.indesignusergroup.com/contact/contact_startgroup.php> for information on how to start a new group. (From what I can best determine, there is not yet such a group in India although ironically, Adobe has a very large development organization in Noida, outside of Delhi!)
Good luck!
          - Dov

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