Free formats are more important that free software but printers are in 
business for the money.
They will often only upgrade when their client base upgrades or uses a 
version that they can't support.  Most of the staff of a print shop only 
thinks of vendor supported formats as well.


They will all accept Quark and In Design file formats. 
PDF-x1 is preferred over PDF.
If you give them EPS, they will convert it for you.
Same for TIFF but they will tell you that they can't guarantee quality.


der.hans wrote:

>Am 19. May, 2005 schwätzte Dennis Kibbe so:
>
>  
>
>>You can layout a card in GIMP and save it as a hi-res TIF.  There are
>>printers on the Net (VistaPrint* comes to mind) that will print quality
>>full color cards inexpensively.
>>    
>>
>
>Does anyone know of a printer that uses Free Software? Guess it doesn't
>really matter, but I'd still prefer to purchase from vendors that use and
>promote Free Software.
>
>ciao,
>
>der.hans
>  
>

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