Treffer: Sayonara XPress.

The article reports that printers use Japanese that is still the old CID format or the even older OCF format. QuarkXPress J 3.3 sits at the end of the layout process and requires very expensive CID printer fonts to reside on the RIP output device. Printer fonts were necessary because "first wave." Japanese Postscript fonts and pre-press applications could not download Japanese fonts on a job basis because of PostScript limitations. This old workflow is expensive and restrictive. Designers are forced to use only the fonts that the printer has installed. Some major printers distrust the whole process so much, they use font outlines as much as possible. For the average Japanese user, an investment in InDesign-based production only makes sense with a matching upgrade to Japanese OpenType fonts. The advanced typography and enhanced character sets of OpenType fonts are only accessible to InDesign and Illustrator CS. Market reaction was almost nonexistent.