Exporting vs. printing to postscript printer

I guess I am old school, since I have been using Distiller for 13+ years. What do most designers do now?

BobLevine wrote:
Even I don't remember that! I'm mean I've read about such things but I thought it was all made up stuff....like walking uphill to school in the snow...both ways.
Bob
You're only referring to the dumbed-down version. In fact, real old timers walked uphill to school in the snow both ways while dragging their Heidelbergs, Linotypes, lead ingots, and process cameras on sleds behind them. They took breaks and photographed themselves with the cameras, and creatged beautiful long-grayscale negatives by special development in chemicals mixed in the warm water melted from the ice encasing their superheated bodies. Later generations, unfortunately, perished while trying to perfect a silver-based tri-color transfer printing process.<G>
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Peter
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