Digital Workflow -- Tools for the Trade

Whether the banner of choice is JDF (Job Definition Format) or less distinct and clear approaches to integrating one's MIS/print management system with both production and administrative tasks, CIM is real—in theory, if not in true application.

Which brings us to a critical point: Workflow. How do today's technical and management consultants, information managers, prepress directors, pressroom operators and, yes, even CEOs attempt to understand, invest in and deploy a truly integrated digital workflow in the "CIM-est" sense of the word?