The Magic Of Print-on-demand

"It's a very flexible system, both in terms of volume and capabilities," he notes.

While the LionHeart system accepts a variety of different file formats, the Extension Service currently uses Adobe PostScript as a standard page description language.

"It provides the most uniform printing from the different computing platforms we serve," Piper explains. The print shop is gradually upgrading to Adobe Acrobat's portable document format (PDF), since it will support electronic distribution, as well as printing to paper or CD-ROM. That will come in handy as the organization expands its electronic distribution of documents, already begun through Agricultural communications and other groups.