Taking the Job Ticket Digital

Question: Do today's commercial printers embrace electronic job tickets, implement that technology successfully into their established print production workflows—and best utilize electronic job tickets for continuous tracking of prepress, press and postpress productivity?

First, a commercial printer must frame its investigation of electronic job ticketing technologies around its current print production requirements, Stroud advises. The printer should stack and rank each of its print production parameters, then comprise a list of realistic objectives with which the shop can live. He offers the following suggestions for those commercial printers deliberating whether or not to take the electronic job ticketing plunge: