Computer Management--Proactive Management

Implementing computer management systems arm commercial printers with a key to unlocking print production bottlenecks—on and off the Internet.

BY MARIE RANOIA ALONSO

Any printer will report that a breakdown in the communication process in any phase of the print production cycle can be debilitating. Printers, quite simply, do not have the luxury of easily absorbing workflow bottlenecks—from the moment a purchase order comes in, through the prepress and printing processes, to the second the product is lifted off the finishing room floor for shipment and the customer, promptly, is billed for services rendered.