Job Workflow — Ending the Digital Divide

All jobs first go through Western’s job planning department, which uses crossover charts to determine the most cost-effective way to produce the work. “If it’s close, we’ll do an estimate both ways to see which is cheapest,” Johnson says.

It’s All in the Planning

Once the production method has been determined, the job is planned for that equipment and sent through one common prepress workflow. The shop uses the PDF- and JDF-based Heidelberg Prinect Printready workflow system and MetaDimension RIP. “We end up with an imposed PDF that either goes out to our iGen3s or the platesetter (a Heidelberg Topsetter 74),” he explains.