Target - DRUPA 2000

And the overwhelming trend of consolidation, mergers and acquisitions within the graphic arts and printing industry means more and more nationwide, continent-wide and even worldwide print suppliers, and fewer and fewer local suppliers.

So what does it all mean? It means substantial changes in design, prepress and printing production workflows. It means distributing the production steps across an even wider audience of participants, who are often hundreds, even thousands, of miles from each other. And it means that the vendors who love and serve this industry must deliver tools that can ensure the predictability of the final printed product, even though the job will pass through a multiplicity of vastly distributed systems, devices and humans before it actually hits the press.