Job Workflow — Ending the Digital Divide

Having imposed, print-ready PDF files makes the larger jobs RIP faster, but the desktop route eliminates the step of generating a PDF, according to Willis.

She estimates that about 30 percent of the shop’s digital color work includes variable data. With the rest, processed PDFs are sent to Production Flow where all the operators have to do is select which of the HP Indigo 5000s they want the job to print on.