I studied Graphic Design at the Emily Carr College of Art & Design in Vancouver, BC, and graduated in 1985. I began my career as an assistant to the Art Director and then became Art Director for Key Pacific Publishing in Victoria, BC for 5 years. I worked on layouts for many glossy full colour tourism magazines. This proved to be a great education in how colour publications were prepped for printing presses.
I took that experience over to Alston Digital Imaging, a prepress service bureau located in the same building as Fleming Printing, one of the largest sheet fed printers on Vancouver Island. For 11 years and many long hours in the prepress trenches working with a Crosfield drum scanner, rip, and film imager, I learned to troubleshoot and build files that are lean, mean, and rip ready.
I have since worked as an in-house graphic designer for a local distributor, pulling together a 350 page product catalogue, building a website and designing sales collateral.
I started Pinnacle Prepress Consulting in October of 2008 as a way to help people like yourself navigate the complexities of digital file creation.
