Comments on: Print Workflow Standardization; educate, preflight, convert, automate http://www.markzware.com/blogs/workflow-standardization-educate-preflight-convert-automate/2009/06/24/ File Preflight, Layout Conversion and Data Recovery for graphic designers, publishers, prepress operators and printers Mon, 08 Mar 2010 10:06:37 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Preflighting Color Graphics and InDesign Layouts; Moore’s Law in Prepress http://www.markzware.com/blogs/workflow-standardization-educate-preflight-convert-automate/2009/06/24/comment-page-1/#comment-1672 Preflighting Color Graphics and InDesign Layouts; Moore’s Law in Prepress Thu, 03 Sep 2009 15:06:56 +0000 http://www.markzware.com/blogs/?p=2937#comment-1672 [...] interesting piece on Moore’s Law and the prepress department, which was a good insight into pre-media: “These components of pre-media all have their place of importance and need to be correctly [...] [...] interesting piece on Moore’s Law and the prepress department, which was a good insight into pre-media: “These components of pre-media all have their place of importance and need to be correctly [...]

]]> By: tunicca http://www.markzware.com/blogs/workflow-standardization-educate-preflight-convert-automate/2009/06/24/comment-page-1/#comment-1515 tunicca Mon, 29 Jun 2009 09:36:01 +0000 http://www.markzware.com/blogs/?p=2937#comment-1515 It's an interesting topic, as most companies know or have been quietly dealing with, the files have been coming from multiple input sources for a long time now, be that word, some freeware application, or the commercial grade design applications; but now we are seeing that these input files could actually be used on one of the required output channels and therefore the files need some sort of preflight of the output channel process they are destined for. An example could be classified ads where office people create a simple word document and submit it to the pre-media company by email, an automated business process needs to be able to check that the word or character count conforms to the ad specifications and that their are no additional objects in the document, but, these ads could now be coming in as part of the campaign and thus the pre-media workflow needs to handle and perform the checks before they are pasted upstream. We have for a long time tried to educate people on the formats we want to handle, but instead have found ourselves placing extremely complicated business process workflows in place to save time and money. Therefore there is an evolution of the graphic arts world coming where the software and servers we once installed to handle the standard graphics formats for our pre-press workflow now need to handle ANY file format that generates a form of output in the new pre-media world. http://tunicca.wordpress.com It’s an interesting topic, as most companies know or have been quietly dealing with, the files have been coming from multiple input sources for a long time now, be that word, some freeware application, or the commercial grade design applications; but now we are seeing that these input files could actually be used on one of the required output channels and therefore the files need some sort of preflight of the output channel process they are destined for.

An example could be classified ads where office people create a simple word document and submit it to the pre-media company by email, an automated business process needs to be able to check that the word or character count conforms to the ad specifications and that their are no additional objects in the document, but, these ads could now be coming in as part of the campaign and thus the pre-media workflow needs to handle and perform the checks before they are pasted upstream.

We have for a long time tried to educate people on the formats we want to handle, but instead have found ourselves placing extremely complicated business process workflows in place to save time and money.

Therefore there is an evolution of the graphic arts world coming where the software and servers we once installed to handle the standard graphics formats for our pre-press workflow now need to handle ANY file format that generates a form of output in the new pre-media world.

http://tunicca.wordpress.com

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