1/1: Interview with Michael Jahn, Application Support Specialist
on Thursday, August 26, 2010
Michael… Thank you so much for talking the time to answer a few questions. We are in a few LinkedIn groups together and when it comes to print and technical workflow discussions, you certainly have made an impression as someone who knows what they are talking about – not that I have a clue half the time what you are saying. I think that is one of the main reasons why I wanted to interview you. Im hoping that I can get you to answer in the simplest of terms on some of the more technical subjects… if I can understand, anyone can is my thought on this…
So with that being said…
DC: Who is Michael Jahn and what does he do?
MEJ: I graduated from the University of Illinois with a degree in Biomedical Communication – that is, I studied Medical Illustration and Photography. I worked for 11 years at a teaching hospital as a Medical Illustrator. At that time I bought my first computer – a Mac 512k – and never really looked back to ruling pens, french curves and rubylith.
In the 70’s, I was sucked into the prepress world when my medical illustration (a color airbrush painting) was badly separated by a Scitex prepress service provider, and never escaped this industry. I became obsessed on how to create digital designs and artwork — and reliably exchange them between two parties. Later when I worked as a digital prepress technical director, a large customer — Fisher Price — had a new toy that required printed assembly instructions and they were sending us PostScript files they created using their DTP software. Later, we found ourselves sending 9 track magnetic tapes that contained Scitex Handshake files to printers. Later still, we learned how to edit PostScript and later purchased Peter Camps first product – Tailor. This was a visual PostScript editor, and later became the core engine for the popular PDF editor, EnfocusPitStop. After my PDF Evangelist job at AGFA in the late 90’s, I worked at Enfocus as their Certified PDF Evangelist.
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