DESKTOP COMPUTERS
The average PC of today is as graphically capable,
powerful and easy-to-use as any Mac and, given that PCs vastly outnumber
Macs, it's not surprising that desktop publishing is a popular application
for many PC users. The leading desktop-publishing software titles
are available in both Mac and PC formats, so there's no reason to
prefer one type of machine to the other in terms of its commercial
desktop-publishing capabilities. For home and office use, there
are several inexpensive Windows-only programs that offer a low-cost
introduction to the fascinating world of desktop publishing.
 
For historical reasons, the Mac is still deeply
entrenched in most commercial print and publishing organizations,
so if you're thinking of setting up business in this field the Mac
platform is obviously the way to go. But for everybody else, which
includes non-professional designers, businesses, charities, clubs,
societies and other organizations and individuals who wish to produce
professional-looking printed material with the minimum of expense,
the Windows PC platform has a number of advantages. Not only are
Windows PCs cheaper to buy, there is also a wider range of software
titles and hardware add-ons available for them, which makes them
more suitable for all-round computing tasks. The Mac is relatively
poorly served in comparison and. perhaps because of the Mac's niche
status and the fact that many of its users don't have to pay for
their own equipment, software and accessories for the Mac still
tend to cost more than their PC equivalents.
Problems of compatibility between Macs and PCs
are almost a thing of the past. File formats are irrelevant when
work can be delivered to a commercial printer over the Internet
or sent on a standard CD-ROM and, with most commercial printers
accepting PostScript and portable document format (PDF) files. Which
can be produced equally well by Macs and PCs, the hardware and software
used to generate the file is immaterial.
Nowadays Macs and PCs can share printers through
a network.
Inkjets or laser printers managed by Mac OS X Server can be seen
as PC printers by computers using Windows and at the same time as
Mac printers by computers using Mac OS X.
More in the articles below:
Macs
and PCs can co-exist harmoniously on the same network
How to Use a Printer Attached to a Windows XP Computer in Mac OS
X
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or PC
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