Focus on Digital Front Ends

Today, most graphical elements are not conceived and designed with efficient prepress processing as the main goal. Agfa contends that this fact is being overlooked by many prepress vendors. "The same document might be required to go through several final-output processing requirements. The designer may have selected an approach for an effect because the designer knew that a specific element was needed—you can't dictate how even a single element is constructed or will be processed later on," Jahn explains.