COMPUTER-INTEGRATED MANUFACTURING -- Making Customers' Work Flow

According to the company president, the system uses Printable Technologies' ASP model for print ordering and management to feed HP Indigo's Production Flow system for digital print production. Both components are designed to work with JDF and PDF data.

For offset e-procurement, customers can use Group Logic's MassTransit software to FTP files and submit job ticket information, Wells reveals. PostScript files get RIPed into PDFs when they first hit LaVigne's internal workflow, and a member of its staff wrote a small program that translates the e-mail generated by MassTransit into a JDF-compliant job ticket.