Target - DRUPA 2000

Online Workflows
Miranda Tivey, director of marketing at Vio Worldwide, on the rise of online intelligent workflows.

Just five years ago, the world was a much larger place for those in the graphic arts. Even though satellites, microwave links and leased T-1 phone lines had been used for years to transmit the vast quantities of relatively small packets of data used in general-purpose computing, few in the graphic arts community knew about such technologies, much less used them. Many print buyers still dealt with a handful of suppliers typically within an hour ride by courier; print service providers were just beginning to preflight jobs routinely; and if you used an ISP, a browser and e-mail, you were labeled a computer techie.