The Future of Automated e-Commerce--Harry Waldman

And Markzware, the leader in preflight software, has MarkzNet—a server-based preflight solution that can handle most of the preflight task now. Sounds great, but we all know it can't be that simple. Let's look at the problems.

First the file sizes for a four-color job make it impractical to send them over telephone modems. Enter cable, DSL and other high-speed solutions that will be common in the near future. I have cable in my home office and despite the differences between upload and download speeds I can still use FTP easily to transfer large files in very short time spans.