The Burdens That Standards Bring--Roger Dickeson

To accomplish this idealized, mutual efficiency, the buyer must fill in forms that require structured, linear information for the computer server at the intermediary or at the printer as an RFQ—Request for Quotation. The RFQ is then transformed into digits that the printer, or a marketplace of bidding printers, can receive in their computers over Internet connections—linear, digital data. Received RFQ data is automatically estimated, priced and quoted.