Printing images to a commercial printing press

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Hi,
Sorry, I've been fighting with this stuff a couple of days.
I have tried to reply via the browser and I had no reply button. Finally used Chrome instead of Explorer and there it is. What a mess, as the following may explain.
I AM the printer, and I've always made my own seps. Last week I had to upgrade my Illustrator version, which required me to go to the Adobe Cloud subscription. After doing that, I had to upgrade my computer because the new version of Illustrator is not compatible with Vista. That left me with Windows 8, which made my photoshop version obsolete. After going to the CC version of photoshop, I found that I could no longer make my separations from that program! Anyway, I was able to install a dummy printer, with postscript 3, and am now able to use Illustrator to make my seps, so I don't really need Photoshop for that anymore. I hope that explains the dilemma I was in, thanks!

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