Digital Workflow -- Tools for the Trade

Good and the Bad

S&G Partners is a consulting company for the publishing industry with core expertise in prepress automation, workflow and asset management. As such, Glover knows well the dynamics—and downfalls—of today's prepress departments.

"They spend many hours evaluating customer files; fixing simple problems; preparing files for RIP, trap and imposition; organizing files for production; and on hold while proofs are sent out and marked up for corrections. With some smart software tools, these costly and time-consuming tasks can be greatly reduced," Glover states. "Deploying these software tools can 'glue' many of these tasks together."