When you standardize how you process jobs you remove many of the variables in print production. Workflow systems can do this for you.

By James Lockman

Underlying all workflow systems are two central ideas: decision making and routing.

First, the workflow system should be able to make decisions about a job and act based on either the job files themselves or on the intended use of the job files. In all cases, preflight is part of this process and leads either to reporting, automatic corrections or both.