Prepress, Average number of employees at a print-shop and Adobe Acrobat...

[David Dilling]

Desktop publishing and Adobe PDF equals the demise of Prepress- the economics of it all:
http://www.markzware.com/blogs/desktop-publishing-prepress-adobe-ac...

There was a great economics article from WhatTheyThink.com from Dr. Joe which went into much detail on the current crisis, where we are and when we can expect to get out of this. Part of the in-depth interview went into some details on the average number of employees at a commercial printer today, compared to a few years back. Dr. Joe's take was;

"The average size of a commercial printing business has been on a very slow decline for decades. It was around 26 employees in the late 1980s and was just above 19 by 2006. That says more about desktop publishing replacing prepress than it says about anything else."
Source: http://members.whattheythink.com/home/drjoe269.cfm

Building off of that, we made this blog post. It may be correct to blame generically "desktop publishing" but there is more detail to that... Enter PDF. See the full post here on Markzware's blog:

http://www.markzware.com/blogs/desktop-publishing-prepress-adobe-ac...