Industry experts speak out on the progress that has been made in automating postpress processes.

By Erik Cagle

“Companies like Buhrs, Longford and Streamfeeder can automate many processes at the end of the print production process,” he says.

Clint Bolte, principal of C. Clint Bolte & Associates, believes that services once viewed as ancillary—specifically mailing and fulfillment—now are viewed as typical cogs in the postpress workflow. As such, he feels the dynamics of the USPS and the resulting capabilities of application-specific software have provided many efficiencies in the mailing arena.