Foreword

Wo rkflow. Now where in the world do you suppose a word like workflow came from?

Thinking back to my early days in digital color prepress, I guess, I remember that operators and managers in the color shops liked to use the term workflow. Jobs came in, and parts of these jobs might be digitized from analog artwork, while other parts might be created from scratch in the virtual world of the computer. Various types of files would then go back and forth between composition, output and proofing, between various types of computers, across various types of media, until the job was finally finished.

Each color shop would define and create its own workflow, based on its hardware, software and its particular expertise or product. So each workflow ...

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