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When the job is approved, she imposes as necessary and creates another PDF for the platesetter, color separated if applicable. Both of these files are then attached to the digital work order in our management software.

If a job is reordered she can pull a work order from history and see exactly what was printed the last time. If there are no changes, the same PDF is sent to the platesetter. Although we are far from what I would call a PDF workflow, we are beginning to take the first steps toward it.