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At a minimum, I would think the "layout people" should be in the same
department.
It sounds as if your present setup is only an outgrowth of the times
when all layouts had to be hand done on a board for photographing and
creating printing negatives....or, perhaps, it is an outgrowth of a
prior Interleaf installation. Often, Interleaf was so expensive that
people looked to keep the number of licenses to a minimum.
As it is, it seems horribly wasteful on all sides. The turnaround
times must be incredibly long, and every time you "hand it off to
layout" you introduce more opportunities for errors to creep in.
Today, there are many routes to getting multiple output--most of which
would give your organization significant savings in time and money
once implemented. As a minimum, I would think that your writers could
do the bulk of the formatting and layout stuff--with one person to do
templates and the like.
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